Karnataka on Saturday celebrated the 269th birth anniversary of erstwhile Mysore (Mysuru) ruler Tipu Sultan and the one person who was conspicuously missing from the festivities was Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. Even Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, who was slated to inaugurate the state celebrations here, did not make it to the event. Security was […]
An Indian Army soldier was killed on Saturday in a Pakistani ceasefire violation on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, a defence officer said. “The Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in Sunderbani at around 9.45 a.m.,” Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand said. The soldier succumbed to […]
A jobless suitor in a Maharashtra village stabbed a man to death after he rejected him his daughter’s hand in marriage, police said here on Saturday. Another relative was also grievously injured in the late Friday incident in the Datada-Budruk village, when Sachin Narayan Surnar attacked Kailash Shinde at his home. Surnar wanted to marry […]
Faizul Hasan Qadri, who hit headlines for building a ‘mini-Taj Mahal’ in memory of his late wife in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh, has been killed in a road accident, police said on Saturday. Qadri sustained serious injuries in the late Thursday hit-and-run incident in Kesar Kalan. The 83-year-old retired Postmaster was admitted in hospital […]
PMK Founder S. Ramadoss on Saturday termed the high retail prices of petrol and diesel despite there being a decline in global crude oil prices as robbery. In a statement issued here, Ramadoss said that the international crude oil prices have now fallen by 22.87 per cent to $60.13/barrel from $77.96/barrel on October 3, 2018. […]
The insurgency-riddled Bastar region, which is made up of seven districts, is heading for a cliffhanger between the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress as assembly polling begins in Chhattisgarh on Monday. The Congress had bagged eight seats in the last assembly polls out of 12 in Bastar in 2013 but the BJP has […]
It was a foggy morning in the national capital on Thursday with the minimum temperature recorded at 10.5 degrees Celsius and air quality deteriorating to “severe” level a day after Diwali. The air-quality across the National Capital Region has worsened, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) and the minimum […]
A partial cloud cover marginally improved minimum temperatures across the Kashmir Valley on Thursday as the Ladakh region continued to reel under the first cold wave of the season, Met said. “The cold wave conditions are likely to continue for another three days. We are expecting another spell of moderate rain and snow from November […]
An unidentified man committed suicide by jumping from a Metro station in Hyderabad on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred at Ameerpet Metro Station where he jumped down from the first floor of the station. He sustained head injuries and died on the spot, according to the police. This is the second such incident at […]
On the second anniversary of demonetisation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi for cheating the nation with the note-ban “scam”. Calling it a dark day, Banerjee tweeted: “The government cheated our nation with this big #Demonetisation scam. It ruined the economy and the lives […]