Mumbai: Season’s heaviest rain, second-highest 24-hour Sept spell in 26 years
Mumbai’s suburbs witnessed an incessant downpour between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning with 286.4mm rain, categorised as extremely heavy rainfall. This is the heaviest rain the suburbs received this season and the second-highest 24-hour September spell in 26 years (1994-2020). This is also the fourth-highest 24-hour September spell recorded during 1974-2020. A continuous intense downpour […]
Suspended MPs On Sit-In With Two Fans, Mosquito Repellents, Refuse Dy Chairman’s Tea
The sit-in protest by eight suspended MPs on Parliament premises continued for the second day on Tuesday, with Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Singh offering them tea in the morning. The suspended parliamentarians spent the night in the lawns near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. AAP’s Sanjay Singh posted a picture on Twitter from the protest site […]
Sharjeel Planned To Use Tharoor’s Book ‘Why I am A Hindu’ To Give Secular Touch To Anti CAA-Movement: Delhi Police
Delhi Police in its charge-sheet filed against Ex-JNU student Sharjeel Imam has alleged that he and his friends had planned to use Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s book “Why I am a Hindu” to “cover the communal contours of the agitation.” Sharjeel Imam is one of the accused who, according to police, hatched a pre-meditated conspiracy […]
COVID-19: India’s tally crosses 5.5 million cases
India’s COVID-19 infection tally crossed 55 lakh on Tuesday, while a record 1,01,468 patients recovered in a day, taking their number to 44,97,867 and pushing the recovery rate to 80.86 per cent, the Union health ministry data showed, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). The coronavirus caseload in the country surged to […]
‘Agricultural Mandis And MSP Will Continue,’ Reassures Prime Minister Modi
With opposition parties vehemently criticising the recently passed farm bills, claiming they go against the interests of farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended the bills on Monday. Modi said that the new bills will grant farmers the freedom to sell their produce at a place and price of their choice. Attacking critics, he claimed that […]
86,961 new COVID-19 cases in India, tally reaches 54,87,580
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally reached 54.88 lakh with 86,961 people being infected in the past 24 hours, while 43,96,399 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 80.12 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 54,87,580, while the death toll climbed to […]
Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda Takes Oath As Rajya Sabha Member
Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Sunday took oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha. Gowda, 87, was in June elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka. This is the first time that the JD(S) leader has become a member of the Upper House since 1996. When the House met for the […]
Parliament: Lok Sabha leaders reach consensus on curtailing Monsoon Session, Speaker to take final call
Amid intensifying scare of Covid-19 spread in the premises of the Parliament building, MPs in the Lok Sabha have reached a consensus to curtail the ongoing Monsoon Session. With the treasury benches insisting on passing the bills listed and the opposition seeking debates on crucial issues, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to take a final […]
NIA arrests 9 suspected Al Qaeda operatives for ‘planning terror attacks’
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested nine suspected Al Qaeda operatives for allegedly planning a terror strike in various parts of the country at the behest of handlers from Pakistan. The agency swooped down on the group operating out of Murshidabad in West Bengal and Ernakulam in Kerala in an early morning raid, […]
Rs 750 for burnt restaurant, Rs 8,500 for store: Delhi Assembly panel flags gaps in riot relief
After his small restaurant in Gokulpuri was vandalised and looted during the Northeast Delhi riots, Usman Ali sought Rs 3 lakh in damages from the state government. He was paid Rs 750. Days into her pregnancy, on February 25, Gulzeb Parveen’s husband Moshin Ali was killed. His charred body was found metres from the Khajuri […]
