INDIA

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Sisodia visits govt school in Delhi’s Kohat Enclave to inspect development work

10:07 pm June 26, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday visited Government Girl Senior Secondary School (GGSSS) here at Kohat Enclave and instructed officials to start the work for building a sports complex within the school premises. The new sports complex, which will include a swimming pool, tennis courts and badminton courts, will ”prepare future sports medalists”, Sisodia said. ”Sports are […]

Mukul Roy gets elected as WB PAC member

12:00 am June 26, 2021

Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Mukul Roy was elected unopposed as a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal Assembly on Friday despite opposition by the BJP over his nomination as he was elected as an MLA on a saffron party ticket. Roy was among the 20 MLAs who had filed nominations […]

Decision on next Himachal CM after Assembly polls: BJP

11:57 pm June 25, 2021

Dharamshala/Shimla: The BJP will declare the next chief minister of Himachal Pradesh after the 2022 Assembly polls, said party spokesperson Randhir Sharma in Dharamshala on Friday while exuding confidence of winning the polls. He, however, said according to the party tradition, the elections will be contested under the leadership of current CM Jai Ram Thakur. […]

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Elderly man, son killed in lightning strike in UP

11:52 pm June 25, 2021

Sonbhadra: An elderly man and his son were killed after they were struck by lightning in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district on Friday, police said. The incident took place in the district’s Nagpur village in Raipur police station area, they said. Abhilash Narain Maurya (60) and his son Dhananjay (35) were killed after they were struck […]

Uttarakhand: Two missing trekkers found

11:49 pm June 25, 2021

Dehradun: A day after they got separated from their group and went missing, two trekkers including a foreigner were rescued on Friday from Ghanghariya-Hemkund trek route, police said. An SDRF team found the duo near the Himalayan Sikh shrine on Friday, police added. Though safely rescued, the trekkers are sick and rather traumatised by their […]