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Malayalam actor Unni Dev held for wife’s suicide

7:59 pm May 25, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: Actor Unni Dev, son of popular Malayalam actor and late Rajan P Dev, was arrested on Tuesday over the death of his wife Priyanka, police said here. A physical education teacher in a local school, Priyanka was found hanging in the bedroom of her home at Vembayam near here on May 12, a day […]

Covid Care training for SDRF personnel beings in Jammu

7:44 pm May 25, 2021

Jammu: A two-day training course for 100 State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel ahead of their deployment for Covid duties commenced here on Tuesday, officials said. DGP, Commandant General, Home Guard, Civil Defence and SDRF, V K Singh inaugurated the training programme at Battalion headquarters, 2nd SDRF at Gandhi Nagar, the officials said. They said […]

Woman shot dead by husband in UP’s Muzaffarnagar

7:39 pm May 25, 2021

Muzaffarnagar (UP): A 38-year-old woman was shot dead by her husband over a land dispute in a village here on Tuesday, police said. The incident took place in Baseda village under the Purkazi police station area, they said, adding the victim was identified as Doli. A case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code […]

Rahul emphasises power of local languages

Toolkit issue: Rahul Gandhi says ‘truth remains unafraid’

11:44 am May 25, 2021

New Delhi: ”Truth remains unafraid,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday after the Delhi Police sent a notice to Twitter India in connection with the probe into a complaint about the alleged ‘COVID toolkit’. After two police teams descended on Twitter’s offices in Delhi and Gurgaon, the Congress on Monday had alleged that the ”cowardly raid” on the microblogging site’s offices by the Delhi Police ”exposes lame duck attempts” […]

Vaccinate kids aged under 5 against influenza: Tribal panel head to Maha govt

11:21 am May 25, 2021

Thane: Former MLA Vivek Pandit, who heads a state committee on tribal welfare, has appealed to the Maharashtra government to administer anti-influenza vaccine to all children below the age of five years in the state’s tribal region before the upcoming monsoon season. Talking to reporters here on Monday, he said health experts have indicated that the during the rainy […]