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R-Day violence: Man who climbed Red Fort tomb arrested

Red Fort violence: Deep Sidhu arrested by Special Cell; Court sends him to 7-day police custody

11:58 pm February 9, 2021

New Delhi : Actor-activist Deep Sidhu who was ”a prominent player” behind the violence at the Red Fort on Republic Day has been arrested by the Delhi Police, officials said on Tuesday. Later in the day, a city court sent him to seven-day police custody after police alleged that Sidhu was one of the main instigators of the violent incidents at the […]

Uttarakhand flood:French President Macron expresses solidarity with India

11:48 pm February 7, 2021

New Delhi: French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday expressed France’s full solidarity with India in the wake of a glacier burst at Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district that triggered a massive flood in the region. ”France expresses its full solidarity with India, after a glacier burst in the Uttarakhand province, leading to the disappearance of over 100 people. Our thoughts are with them and their families,” Macron said […]

Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty

8:59 pm February 7, 2021

Chicago: Joe Biden, the first sitting US president to openly oppose the death penalty, has discussed the possibility of instructing the Department of Justice to stop scheduling new executions, officials have told The Associated Press. If he does, that would end an extraordinary run of executions by the federal government, all during a pandemic that raged inside prison […]

40 shanties gutted in fire in Delhi’s Okhla Phase II

3:58 pm February 7, 2021

New Delhi: Forty shanties were gutted and six domesticated animals died after a fire broke out near the Harikesh Nagar Metro Station in southeast Delhi’s Okhla Phase II in the early hours of Sunday, fire service officials said. Delhi Fire Service (DFS) Director Atul Garg said it was medium category fire and information about it […]

Sachin Tendulkar tests positive for COVID, quarantines himself at home

Centre fielded Tendulkar to counter comments from Rihanna, Thunberg: RJD leader

8:03 pm February 5, 2021

Patna: RJD leader Shivanand Tiwari on Friday alleged that the Union government ”fielded” Sachin Tendulkar to ”counter” international personalities who recently commented on the ongoing farmers’ protests, and said it was an insult to the nation. The RJD’s national vice-president asked whether the Centre wants the world to turn a blind eye to the farmer’s […]