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427 new cases take J&K's Covid tally to | Srinagar, Oct 19 (TIWN) Jammu and Kashmir on Monday reported 427 new Covid-19 cases, taking the Union Territory's coronavirus tally to 88,369, while nine deaths in the past 24 hours took the UT's Covid death toll to 1,388. | 19-Oct-2020 |
Common man in J&K aspires to a decent an | Srinagar, Oct 18 (TIWN) The people in Jammu and Kashmir seek a decent and a quality life like anyone else in the world and do not want violence, says the Indian Army's commander in Kashmir Lt General B.S. Raju. | 18-Oct-2020 |
Delhi traders join Kejriwal's campaign t | New Delhi, Oct 18 (TIWN) Responding to the appeal by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his fight against dengue, shopkeepers from across Delhi on Sunday joined the '10 Hafte 10 Baje 10 Minute' anti-dengue campaign. | 18-Oct-2020 |
K'taka Deputy CM to distribute 1,000 tab | Bengaluru, Oct 18 (TIWN) Digital learning has become inevitable because of the pandemic, Deputy Chief Minister C. N. Ashwath Narayana on Saturday announced that his trust would distribute as many as 1,000 tabs to poor students studying in government schools to bridge the digital divide existing between private schools and government schools. | 17-Oct-2020 |
B'luru's Covid tally breaches 3L-mark, d | Bengaluru, Oct 18 (TIWN) With Bengaluru reporting 3,371 new Covid cases, the total number of infections in the city breached 3 lakh-mark on Saturday, while 14 persons succumbed to the virus, taking the tech city's death toll to 3,500. | 17-Oct-2020 |
No respite from rain in Hyderabad | Hyderabad, Oct 18 (TIWN) Signalling no respite even before Hyderabad could recover from the recent deluge, heavy rains pounded the city yet again on Saturday. | 17-Oct-2020 |
Infiltration along LoC has reduced subst | Srinagar, Oct 17 (TIWN) : Infiltration along the Line of Control with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir has reduced substantially, said the Indian Army's commander in Kashmir Lieutenant General B.S. Raju, pointing that a lot of efforts, including use of drones, have been put in by ground troops to dominate the area. | 17-Oct-2020 |
Grand Alliance releases Bihar poll manif | Patna, Oct 17 (TIWN) The Grand Alliance in Bihar on Saturday released its joint election manifesto or 'Sankalp Patra', and reiterated its commitment to give 10 lakh jobs to the state's youths and waive farm loans if it returned to power. | 17-Oct-2020 |
7 killed, over 30 injured in road mishap | Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 17 (TIWN) Seven persons were killed and more than 30 others injured when a bus collided with a van in Puranpur area of Pilibhit district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday. | 17-Oct-2020 |
India conducts another night trial of Pr | Bhubaneswar, Oct 16 (TIWN) India on Friday successfully conducted another night trial of indigenously-developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile from a defence test facility off Odisha coast, DRDO sources said. | 16-Oct-2020 |
Rs 22,267 cr allocated to Odisha to help | Bhubaneswar, Oct 17 (TIWN) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said an aid package of Rs 22,267.66 crore has been allocated as central assistance to Odisha to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. | 17-Oct-2020 |
Post Hathras, Cong has tough task to pro | New Delhi, Oct 17 (TIWN) After a high-pitched battle in the Hathras case with the ruling dispensation,the Congress has to prove its mettle in the electoral battle. The state is witnessing a by-election that's likely to be a political litmus test for all stake holders: whether it is the ruling BJP, the opposition SP, BSP or the Congress. | 17-Oct-2020 |
JGU student receives US & India patents | Sonipat, Oct 16 (TIWN) In an unprecedented development, an Indian law student of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has received both the Indian and the US Patent for a technology he invented entitled ‘Method and System for Managing the Usage of a Plurality of Battery Units to Power an Electric Vehicle. | 16-Oct-2020 |
BJP MLA defends Ballia firing accused | Ballia (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 16 (TIWN) In an unexpected turn of events, BJP MLA from Ballia, Surendra Singh, has come out to defend Dhirendra Singh, an accused in the firing incident at a Panchayat meeting in which one person was killed. | 16-Oct-2020 |
Punjab farmers to hold state-wide protes | Chandigarh, Oct 15 (TIWN) Less than 24 hours after the talks between the Centre and representatives of farmer unions ended on a stormy note, farmers belong to 29 organisations on Thursday declared they would intensify their non-violent stir and announced state-wide protests in Punjab on October 17 against the three farm laws passed by Parliament. | 15-Oct-2020 |
Telangana suffered Rs 5,000 crore loss d | Hyderabad, Oct 15 (TIWN) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday said that due to heavy rains and flash floods, the state suffered losses to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore. | 15-Oct-2020 |
Man set on fire following dispute in Goa | Panaji, Oct 15 (TIWN) The North District police in Goa on Thursday filed a case of murder, after a middle-aged man who was set ablaze by unknown persons near Porviorim, a Panaji suburb, succumbed to burn injuries at a government hospital. | 15-Oct-2020 |
Delhi Police that lost 21 men raises its | New Delhi, Oct 15 (TIWN) With their arms spread out straight horizontally, their palms stretched, masked and standing at some distance from each other, the Delhi police force pledged to fight the virus that has snatched away 21 of their colleagues in the past few months. | 15-Oct-2020 |
Javadekar flags off 50 CPCB teams to cur | New Delhi, Oct 15 (TIWN) To check the rising pollution levels across Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), Union Minister of Environment Prakash Javadekar on Thursday flagged off 50 teams of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for conducting field visits to the various hot spots to ensure checks on pollution. The field visits starting on October 15 will continue till February 28 next year. | 15-Oct-2020 |
Ahead of Bihar polls, Sharad Yadav's dau | New Delhi, Oct 14 (TIWN) Ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, former Union Minister and Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav's daughter Subhashini on Wednesday joined the Congress, apart from former MP Kali Pandey. | 14-Oct-2020 |
Given 3-tier security to Hathras family, | New Delhi, Oct 14 (TIWN) Seeking a Supreme Court-monitored CBI probe in the Dalit woman's gang rape and murder in Hathras, the Uttar Pradesh government has informed the apex court that the victim's family has been given three-layered security. | 14-Oct-2020 |
Maha power outage: Minister reiterates s | Mumbai, Oct 14 (TIWN) Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Wednesday said "foul play or sabotage" has not been ruled out in the mega-power shortage that tripped Mumbai Metropolitan Region on Monday and added that stringent action will be taken against all found guilty. | 14-Oct-2020 |
J'khand coal scam: CBI seeks life impris | New Delhi, Oct 14 (TIWN) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday urged a Delhi court to award life imprisonment to former Union Minister of State (MoS) for Coal Dilip Ray and other convicts in a coal block allocation case. The court will pronounce the order on their sentencing on October 26. | 14-Oct-2020 |
Wife, son to be released on bail, Azam K | Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 14 (TIWN) The Allahabad high court has granted bail to Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam in a case of alleged forgery of Abdullah's birth documents. | 13-Oct-2020 |
Mamata unveils double-decker open-roof b | Kolkata, Oct 13 (TIWN) In 2009, she had promised to transform Kolkata into London and she did mention that in the Trinamool Congress' 2009 Lok Sabha election manifesto. At the time, she was in the opposition. Her party had stormed to power in West Bengal in 2011 and Mamata Banerjee became Chief Minister of the state. | 13-Oct-2020 |
55,342 new cases recorded as India shows | New Delhi, Oct 13 (TIWN) India's tally on Tuesday mounted to 71,75,880 with a spike of 55,342 coronavirus cases, the lowest since August. | 13-Oct-2020 |
398 test positive, J&K Covid-19 tally cr | Srinagar, Oct 13 (TIWN) At least 398 people have tested positive in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday as the total number of people infected with coronavirus crossed 84,000 in the union territory, officials said. | 13-Oct-2020 |
3 teachers of religious school booked un | Srinagar, Oct 13 (TIWN) Three teachers of a religious school in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district have been booked by the police under the public safety act (PSA) after some students of this school were found involved in militant activities. | 13-Oct-2020 |
5th accused in TRP scam arrested in UP b | Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 13 (TIWN) The Mumbai Police's Crime Branch investigating the television rating points (TRPs) scam has arrested Vinay Tripathi, a former employee of the Hansa Research Group, from Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district. | 13-Oct-2020 |
Youth Congress holds candle light march | New Delhi, Oct 12 (TIWN) Activists of the Indian Youth Congress on Monday took out a candle light march here demanding justice for the Hathras gang-rape victim, who died at a government hospital in Delhi last month. | 12-Oct-2020 |
Reducing K'taka's Covid mortality rate m | Bengaluru, Oct 12 (TIWN) Karnataka's new Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Monday asserted that his biggest priority would be to reduce the Covid-19 mortality rate to less than one per cent. | 12-Oct-2020 |
Delhi Assembly examines NewsClick editor | New Delhi, Oct 12 (TIWN) The Committee on Peace and Harmony of the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Monday examined the editor of online news portal NewsClick, Prabir Purkaystha, and co-founder of Alt News, Pratik Sinha, in continuation of its proceedings against Facebook for its alleged inaction to tackle harmful content on its platform. | 12-Oct-2020 |
Hathras DM owns full responsibility for | Lucknow, Oct 12 (TIWN) : Hathras district magistrate Parveen Kumar Laxar has owned full responsibility for the decision related to holding the cremation of the 19-year-old victim in the night. | 12-Oct-2020 |
Recommend dismissal of Anna University V | Chennai, Oct 12 (TIWN) DMK President M.K. Stalin on Monday demanded that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami recommend the immediate dismissal of Anna University Vice Chancellor M.K. Surappa. | 12-Oct-2020 |
Inter-state border disputes in NE, Mizor | Aizawl/Agartala/Silchar, Oct 11 (TIWN) Amidst Covid-19 situation, Mizoram battled with its decades-old border disputes against Assam and Tripura and sought the intervention of Survey of India to resolve the row permanently, officials said on Sunday. | 11-Oct-2020 |
JD-U releases Vision Document ahead of B | Patna, Oct 11 (TIWN) More than a fortnight ahead of the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United (JD-U) on Sunday released its 'vision document' entitled 'Saat Nischay' to woo voters. | 11-Oct-2020 |
3 killed as car collides with tractor-tr | New Delhi, Oct 11 (TIWN) Three persons were killed when a car they were travelling in collided with a tractor-trolley in west Delhi's Moti Nagar on Sunday. | 11-Oct-2020 |
Yogi announces 5% reservation for ex-ser | Lucknow, Oct 11 (TIWN) The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has announced a 5 per cent reservation for jobs in the Group C posts for former service personnel. | 11-Oct-2020 |
2 lawyers, 2 cases 'one destiny' | Lucknow, Oct 11 (TIWN) Some call it a coincidence, others call it destiny but both of them say that it is a job for them. | 11-Oct-2020 |
Cong arrays Sonia, Manmohan, Rahul, Priy | New Delhi, Oct 10 (TIWN) The Congress has prepared a list of 30 star campaigners ahead of the first phase of Bihar elections scheduled on October 28, which includes party chief Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha. | 10-Oct-2020 |
PIL in SC: Use plain language to facilit | New Delhi, Oct 10 (TIWN) A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Department of Justice to issue guides/handbooks in plain English and in vernacular -- easily understandable by laymen explaining the law and procedure for vindication of rights and redressal of grievances under the law. | 10-Oct-2020 |
SC no to cancel CLAT-2020, asks petition | New Delhi, Oct 10 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to cancel the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT-2020) this year or stay the counselling process. | 10-Oct-2020 |
Hit by Covid blues, Bengal couple sells | Kolkata, Oct 9 (TIWN) Parents of an eight-months-old girl child sold her off for just Rs 4,000 in West Bengal's Midnapore district due to severe monetary crisis amid the continuing pandemic that hit the nation eight months back, police said. | 09-Oct-2020 |
Six men set temple priest on fire in Raj | Jaipur, Oct 10 (TIWN) In a shocking incident, a 50-year-old temple priest was set on fire with petrol by six people in Rajasthan's Karauli, after he resisted an attempt by them to encroach upon land that belonged to the temple authorities, police said on Friday. | 10-Oct-2020 |
Prez, PM and others pay tributes to Pasw | New Delhi, Oct 9 (TIWN) President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation on Friday in paying tributes to Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who passed away last night, at the latter's residence here. | 09-Oct-2020 |
Right to freedom of speech most abused t | New Delhi, Oct 8 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Centre for filing an affidavit short on details in a plea seeking strong action against media houses for demonizing the Muslim community in connection with the Tablighi Jamaat event. | 08-Oct-2020 |
Delhi Riots: HC to hear Left plea on FIR | New Delhi, Oct 8 (TIWN) : The Delhi High Court will on November 2 hear a petition filed by CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat challenging a trial court order which had dismissed her plea seeking registration of FIR against BJP leaders Anurag Thakur and Kapil Mishra over their alleged hate speech during the riots that broke out in the national capital earlier this year. | 08-Oct-2020 |
Ex-CBI chief ends life in Shimla | Shimla, Oct 8 (TIWN) Former CBI chief and Nagaland Governor Ashwani Kumar on Wednesday allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence here. | 08-Oct-2020 |
2 terrorists killed in an encounter in K | Srinagar, Oct 8 (TIWN) Two terrorists have been killed in an ongoing encounter at Sagun area in South Kashmir's Shopian district, officials said on Wednesday morning. | 08-Oct-2020 |
Yogi to participate in Dusshera events a | Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) Oct 8 (TIWN) UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will participate in all important rituals of the Vijayadashmi celebrations to be held during 'Dusshera' as per tradition at the Gorakhnath temple from October 17 to 25. | 08-Oct-2020 |