Airport Customs Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) arrested two Indian-origin foreign nationals for smuggling after they arrived from Singapore concealing 4kg gold jewellery worth Rs 1.2 crore in their undergarments on Saturday. They also arrested a person waiting outside the airport to receive them and collect the gold. The gold was to be delivered to a shopkeeper in Bhayandar, who is […]
» Read morePunjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh has offered star woman cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur the DSP’s position in Punjab Police, saying he wants to “correct a wrong” done to her in the past. Ms. Harmanpreet played a crucial role in India reaching the final of the ICC World Cup in England. Her hurricane knock of 171 against Australia in the semifinals […]
» Read moreLok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday suspended Congress MPs Gaurav Gogoi, Sushmita Dev, Ranjeet Ranjan, Adhir Choudhary, K Suresh and M K Raghavan for five days for disrupting the proceedings of the House. The members raised slogans in the Well of the House during Zero Hour and tore and threw papers towards the Speaker’s chair. The Lok Sabha had […]
» Read moreThe Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested 20 persons in connection with the mob lynching of DSP Ayub Pandith in Srinagar last month, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Munir Khan said in Srinagar on Monday. A militant involved in the killing of the police officer was shot dead in an encounter with security forces on July 12, the IGP […]
» Read moreUdupi Ramachandra Rao, the grand old man of Indian space programme, is no more. Professor Rao, 85, passed away in his Indira Nagar home in Bengaluru a little before 3 a.m. on Monday, a source in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)confirmed. Active almost until his last days, Professor Rao had been to his office in the Department of Space’s […]
» Read moreHaryana-based Shweta Mehta was on Saturday announced the winner of popular stunt based reality show “MTV Roadies Rising”. “I had auditioned for ‘Roadies’ thrice in the past, but did not make it to the show. But failing thrice did not dampen my spirits. I took the challenge head-on and auditioned again, only with the intention of winning the show. And […]
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