The UN’s unfinished agenda item is tackling terrorism emanating from its epicentre in Pakistan, India has said here replying to Pakistan bringing up the Kashmir issue at the international organisation’s 75th Anniversary Commemoration session. Vidisha Maitra, a First Secretary at India’s UN mission, said on Monday: “If there is an item that is unfinished on […]
With another significant single-day spike of 92,605 coronavirus cases, India’s total tally on Sunday breached the 54-lakh mark to reach 54,00,620 cases even as 1,133 more COVID-19 deaths were recorded in 24 hours. Of the total cases, 10,10,824 are still active, 43,03,043 patients cured and discharged, whereas another 86,752 lost the battle against the viral […]
The world famous Chhota Imambara that is must on the itinerary of every visitor to Lucknow, has now been ‘scarred’ by the Lucknow Police. The police outpost built at the gate of Chhota Imambara has not only disturbed the facade of the monument but also is a major violation of the rules of Archaeological Survey […]
To take revenge on an employer, a house maid roped in her boyfriend to create a fake profile of her woman employer on Facebook and posted her mobile number with vulgar and obscene messages, police said Friday. The man identified as Suraj, a resident of Chirag Delhi, Malviya Nagar has been arrested. The matter came […]
Exactly six months after Maharashtra had its first coronavirus death on March 17 – of a 64-year-old man who succumbed at Mumbai’s Kasturba Hospital, the state has seen its death toll go up massively to 30,883, officials said on Thursday. This comes to a rough average of 172 deaths per day (till September 16), according […]
Pakistan-based globally banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the front organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, is using gaming applications to brainwash youngsters to take up jihad against India, contrary to their claims of educating youths on Prophet Mohammed’s teachings through apps, intelligence agencies have flagged. “Through JuD’s gaming apps, the Lashkar-e-Taiba has conspired to spread jihad in India,” a […]
The Delhi High Court on Thursday expressed hope that the media will exercise restraint as the bench asked the Centre, National Broadcasters Association among others to respond to a petition filed by Bollywood actor Rakul Preet Singh. Rakul Preet has highlighted media reports against her after Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case accused Rhea Chakraborty named […]
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has informed the Supreme Court that if it is keen to begin an exercise to regulate media, then it should be the digital media instead of mainstream media, as it has wider viewership and also has the potential to turn viral. The Ministry in an affidavit in the Supreme […]
Kapila Vatsyayan, Member of Parliament, a major scholar of art, architecture, Indian classical dance and Founding Director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, passed away at the age of 92 at her home in New Delhi on Wednesday. Recipient of the Padma Vibhushan honour (2011), the scholar, who authored around 20 books […]
A Delhi court on Wednesday held a former regional manager of SriLankan Airlines guilty for outraging the modesty of one of his colleagues at the airline’s division in the national capital. Metropolitan Magistrate Dev Saroha of Patiala House Court convicted Lalit D’Silva, noting that his intention to outrage the modesty of the sales executive “was […]