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PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

11:44 pm June 3, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Society on Friday via video conferencing, his office said. The society is part of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Its activities are carried out through 37 laboratories […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Maha: 523 new COVID-19 cases detected in Nashik district

11:40 pm June 3, 2021

Nashik: The count of COVID-19 cases in Nashik district of Maharashtra rose to 3,87,481 with addition of 523 patients on Thursday, health officials said. The virus also claimed 41 lives which took the death toll in the district to 4,830. Fourteen COVID-19 patients died in Nashik city during the day. So far, 317 COVID-19 patients […]

Woman held at Amritsar airport for smuggling gold

11:36 pm June 3, 2021

Amritsar: A woman was arrested by custom officials at Rajasansi airport here early on Thursday for allegedly smuggling gold worth Rs 28.18 lakh. She arrived from Dubai around 2.30 am with gold paste weighing 557.98 grams concealed in her innerwear, officials said. Further investigation was on.

Rape accused arrested after 2 years in J&K

11:33 pm June 3, 2021

Jammu: A rape accused was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district after a two-year hunt, police said on Thursday. The accused, Shabir Ahmed, a resident of Bagga village in Mahore, was absconding in the case of kidnapping and rape registered at Chassana police station in 2019, they said. He evaded the investigation by going […]

BJP leader shot dead by militants in Pulwama in J-K

11:59 pm June 2, 2021

Srinagar: Militants shot dead a BJP councillor in the Tral area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said here. The militants opened fire on Rakesh Pandit at his home in the evening, they said. Pandit was rushed to a hospital where he died, the officials said. They said a woman — […]