Day: July 6, 2019

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Novel revisits Bengal’s Cossipore-Baranagar massacre

9:01 pm July 6, 2019

New Delhi: A new novel focuses on the Naxal movement and narrates with vivid details the 1971 Cossipore-Baranagar massacre in West Bengal in which several Naxalite youths were killed allegedly by police and Congress activists. Half Man by Asim Mukhopadhyay also focuses on the struggles of the displaced people during the Narmada Bachao Andolan. The […]

ITBP releases video of 8 trekkers showing their 'last moments'

Nanda Devi expedition: Body of team leader not found

8:26 pm July 6, 2019

Nainital: Noted British mountaineer Martin Moran who led the eight-member team that perished on way to the Nanda Devi East peak was the lone climber of the group whose body could not be found. The fact emerged after the identification of the seven bodies recovered from the western ridge of the peak was completed on […]

Two men arrested for smuggling gold worth Rs 26 lakh at Delhi airport

Woman held at IGI Airport with 5 bullets

7:57 pm July 6, 2019

New Delhi: A woman has been apprehended by CISF at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying five bullets in her hand baggage, a senior official said Saturday. Trisha Mondal, bound for Kolkata on an Air India flight, was intercepted by a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officer after he detected the bullets on the X-ray […]

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

PM Modi launches BJP’s membership drive from his LS constituency

3:29 pm July 6, 2019

Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the membership drive of the ruling BJP from his Lok Sabha constituency here on Saturday, noting that it will further connect people from all walks of life with the saffron party. Addressing a gathering on the occasion, the prime minister also talked about the Union budget 2019-20 and […]

Girl pushed off a Mumbai highrise by teen dies

3:24 pm July 6, 2019

Mumbai: The 12-year-old girl, who was allegedly pushed off a suburban highrise by a teenage boy for spurning him on June 29, has succumbed to her injuries, police said Saturday. According to police, the 16-year-old boy had called the girl to meet him at the refugee area on the eighth floor of a 15-storey building […]