A 21-year-old woman was stabbed to death, allegedly by her stalker, in North Delhi’s Burari on Tuesday morning. The victim sustained 22 stab wounds and was declared brought dead at a hospital. The accused, Surender Singh, was chased and nabbed by the public before being handed over to the police who arrested him. The victim has been identified as Karuna, […]
» Read moreTwo persons were killed and five injured on Monday when police opened fire to disperse protesters near the Kaziranga National Park. The Assam government had decided to carry out eviction in Banderdubi and Deochurchang areas under Kaliabor sub-division of Nagaon district after residents refused to move out citing lack of compensation. Around 190 and 160 families were evicted from Banderdubi […]
» Read moreSeventeen soldiers were killed in a militant attack in Uri area of Baramulla district on Sunday morning. Police sources said that fidayeen militants stormed an Army camp in Uri near the Line of Control (LoC) around 4 a.m. Four militants were killed in the encounter. “A group of heavily armed terrorists targeted the rear administrative base of a unit at […]
» Read morePakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in New York on Sunday to lead the Pakistani delegation to the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly where he would enunciate Islamabad’s position on key global and regional issues before one of the largest gatherings of leaders from around the world. He was received at New York’s Kennedy International Airport by […]
» Read morePope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.” Pope Francis held up Mother Teresa as the model for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find poor, wounded souls during a canonisation […]
» Read moreA Salafi preacher in a mosque here is now under the scanner for his speech, which mainstream Muslim organisations in the State have termed as ‘‘dangerous in a pluralist society.’’ The speech by Shamsudheen Fareed, a preacher associated with a Salafi mosque on the outskirts of this town, has been widely discussed in the social media over the past few […]
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