Lucknow, February 25 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday arrived in Tokyo for a visit aimed at attracting investments and industrial cooperation, officials said. Adityanath was received in the capital city by Yamanashi prefecture vice governor Junichi Ishidera and members of the Indian diaspora. India’s Ambassador to Japan Nagma M. Mallick also welcomed […]
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Chennai, February 25 The heavy loss to South Africa in their Super 8 opener was the “shakeup” title favourites India needed going into the business end of the T20 World Cup, said former head coach Ravi Shastri. India will be desperate to make a strong comeback against Zimbabwe here on Thursday after the heavy 76-run […]
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New Delhi, February 25 Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said the action taken against Youth Congress members for raising the voice of the people is “highly condemnable” and “shameful”. She asserted that it is in the interest of 1.4 billion Indians to raise voice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government […]
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By Yoshita Singh New York, February 25 A 57-year-old Sikh man in the US was found dead days after he was kidnapped, with authorities saying he was not the “intended target” of the crime. Avtar Singh was reported missing on February 17 at approximately 8:52 pm in Tracy, California. During the investigation, surveillance footage showed […]
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New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the contents of Class 8 NCERT textbook referring to the corruption in the judiciary and termed it a matter of “grave concern.” A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was urged by senior […]
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The North News Chandigarh, February 25 The Punjab government on Tuesday announced that residents can now enrol in the Mukh Mantri Sehat Yojana at Common Service Centres (CSCs) using only Aadhaar card and Punjab voter identity card. Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh said people can get on-the-spot registration at any CSC or designated camp across […]
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Chandigarh, February 25 Haryana’s State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested four people in the IDFC First Bank fraud case, officials said on Wednesday. Of the four arrested, two are ex-IDFC First Bank employees and two are private persons who own a partnership firm, they said. The arrests were made on Tuesday evening as part […]
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Yoshita Singh New York/Washington, February 25 US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him that 35 million people would have died if it were not for his intervention in stopping the war between India and Pakistan. In his over 100-minute-long State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump repeated […]
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The North News Chandigarh, February 25 Police have arrested one person in connection with the killings of two policemen in Gurdaspur near the Indo-Pak border, an officer said on Wednesday. Besides the arrest, one man was shot at and wounded in an encounter with the police in Gurdaspur in the morning, the officer said. Gurdaspur […]
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New Delhi, February 25 Union Home Minister Amit Shah will embark on a three-day visit to the sensitive border areas of Bihar from Wednesday with a focus on demographic changes in the state’s Seemanchal region due to infiltration and illegal religious structures along the border, officials said Tuesday. Shah will camp in the border areas […]
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