INDIA

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Fire breaks out in Kolkata godown

11:57 pm June 21, 2021

Kolkata: A major fire broke out at a plastic godown in Central Kolkata’s congested Burrabazar area on Monday evening, a fire department official said. No casualty was reported in the blaze as firefighters evacuated the building. Altogether 10 fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze which was noticed at around 7.05 pm, […]

COVID-19: 121 active cases in Noida, 80 in Ghaziabad

11:51 pm June 21, 2021

Noida/Ghaziabad: Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases on Monday while neighbouring Ghaziabad had just two new infections, official data showed. The number of active cases in Gautam Buddh Nagar now stands at 121 while it was 80 in Ghaziabad, according to Uttar Pradesh’s Health Department data for a 24-hour period. The […]

J-K: 7-year-old girl abducted, raped in Doda district

11:42 pm June 21, 2021

Bhaderwah/Jammu: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by a man in a remote village in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday. Sohan Singh (35) has been arrested and booked under section 363 (abduction) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Protection of Children from […]

4 members of notorious gang held after shootout in Delhi

11:38 pm June 21, 2021

New Delhi: Four members of a notorious gang were arrested following a shootout in Delhi’s Jaffarpur Kalan, police said on Monday. Three of the four accused suffered bullet injuries during the shootout, they said. The four members of the infamous Nandu gang were planning to kill a businessman in Najafgarh area, a senior police officer […]

UP: Missing man’s body recovered from car found in canal

11:35 pm June 21, 2021

Muzaffarnagar (UP): The body of a man who had been missing since February was found in a car in the Ganga canal near Sathedi bridge here on Monday, police said. Retired branch manager at LIC, H D Atrey was on way to Meerut from Muzaffarnagar when he went missing and his family had lodged a […]