509 per cent rise in cases under child labour law: Study
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) There has been a 509 per cent increase in the number of cases registered under the child labour law since 2017, according to a research study on child labour by…
Disaster
Nearly 3 lakh shifted as Cyclone Vayu to be more intense
Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad, June 13 (IANS) As a more intense Cyclone Vayu is racing towards Gujarat, triggered by a warmer Arabian Sea and acquiring moisture from the southwest monsoon, nearly 3 lakh people have been evacuated to…
Showroom robbed in Connaught Place, police clueless
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Buzzing till late night, no one would have thought that shops in the posh Connaught Place area could be robbed, especially as the area lies in the heart of national…
Girl and boy travelling on scooty allegedly acid-attacked in West Delhi
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) A girl and a boy were allegedly acid-attacked by an unknown person while they were travelling on a Scooty in Vikaspuri area of West Delhi on Tuesday. According to the…
Retrieving bodies from AN-32 wreckage site to take time
Itanagar, June 13 (IANS) Thirteen mountaineers from the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Indian Army along with two civilian mountaineers on Wednesday arrived near the wreckage site to establish the status of the 13…
Firearms recovered from murder accused in Delhi
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) The Delhi Police have arrested three persons accused in cases of murder and robbery from the Auchandi area in outer Delhi and recovered nine firearms, including three pistols and six…
Two companies, three persons booked for building unauthorized colony in Gurugram
Gurugram June 12 (IANS) The Gurugram police has registered an FIR against two private developers and three persons for allegedly developing a residential colony in Tikri village under Badshahpur Tahshil. An FIR has been registered…
Cyclone Vayu: flight services to be supended across 5 airports in Gujarat
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) In the wake of Cyclone Vayu, flight services to some 5 airports in Gujarat will be suspended from midnight on Wednesday. Accordingly, services to airports in Porbandar, Diu, Bhavnagar, Keshod…
Kidney racket: Arrested kingpin was held earlier too
By Sanjeev Pal New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The kingpin arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police in connection with an international kidney racket had been nabbed earlier by Delhi Police in 2016 in a similar…
Violence continues in Bengal, BJP worker’s body found
Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) A person died and several were injured as violent incidents were reported across districts in West Bengal on Wednesday, police said. “WB’s Malda district witnessed another heinous murder of a BJP…
Cyclone Vayu: Odisha offers help to Gujarat
Bhubaneswar, June 12 (IANS) With cyclonic storm Vayu inching towards the Gujarat coast, the Odisha government on Wednesday offered support to the western state to use its expertise on disaster preparedness mechanism. Gujarat chief secretary…
DRI busts gold smuggling racket, uncle-nephew duo arrested in Kolkata
Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted a “corporate type smuggling” racket and arrested a mastermind and his relative who were involved in many cases with the seizure of about…
Hoarding crashes in Mumbai kill one, injure 5
Mumbai, June 12 (IANS) A senior citizen was killed and three women were injured in hoarding crashes as flight, rail and road traffic was affected by pre-monsoon showers that lashed Mumbai, on Wednesday, officials said….
15 mountaineers drpped near AN-32 crash site
Itanagar, June 12 (IANS) The Indian Air Force, Army and the civil administration of Arunachal Pradesh started a massive operation on Wednesday to reach the site where the AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force…
Three arrested for SP leader’s murder
Greater Noida, June 12 (IANS) Three people have been arrested from Dadri area in Greater Noida in connection with the murder of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ramtek Kataria on May 31, the police said on…
NIA searches 7 places in Coimbatore
Chennai/New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The NIA on Wednesday searched seven places in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, including the residence of a social media friend of the Sri Lankan terrorist who masterminded the April suicide…
Cyclone Vayu more severe, 2.15 lakh shifted
Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad, June 12 (IANS) Triggered by a warmer Arabian Sea and acquiring moisture from the southwest monsoon, cyclone Vayu on Wednesday got more intense with forecasts revising its wind speed up to 155 km-165 km…
Pakistani doctors blame quacks for alarming rise in HIV cases
Islamabad, June 12 (IANS) The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has blamed quack doctors practicing without training and professional certification for an alarming rise in the number of HIV positive patients in the country, the media…
UP sand mining scam: ex-Minister’s home among 22 places raided
Lucknow, June 12 (IANS) The CBI on Wednesday carried out searches at over 21 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the residence of former state Minister Gayatri Prajapati in connection with a case of…
78 arrested in MP for duping American citizens
Indore, June 12 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Cyber Cell claimed to have busted a gang of dupers with the arrest of 78 people. While 75 of them had been sent to jail, three were under…