At least two people were killed and more than 100 others injured in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Tuesday after a 5.8-magnitude quake jolted several cities in the northern parts of the country including capital Islamabad. According to US Geological Survey, the epicentre of quake was near New Mirpur in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. PoK Minister for Sports, Youth and Culture Chaudhry Mohammad Saeed ...
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PUC centers ordered to link results with Vahan database
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has reiterated the necessity of linking all vehicle data with VAHAN database to avoid harassment and inconvenience to citizens. This information should be available to citizens in electronic form also in m-Parivahan and e-Challan platforms for their convenience. In a letter to the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories, the Ministry ...
Read More »Cyclonic Storm ‘HIKAA’ over northeast moves closely westwards
The Cyclonic Storm ‘HIKAA’ over northeast and adjoining east central Arabian sea moved nearly westwards with a speed of 17 kmph during past 06 hours and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of today, the 23rd September, 2019 over the same region near latitude 20.4°N and longitude 65.7°E, about 490 km west-southwest of Veraval (Gujarat), 520 km south-southwest of Karachi (Pakistan) ...
Read More »Petrol price jumps Rs 1.59/ltr, diesel Rs 1.31/ltr after Saudi attacks
Petrol prices have soared by Rs 1.59 a litre and diesel by Rs 1.31 in the last six days — the most since daily price revision was introduced in 2017, as a massive strike at Saudi Arabian oil facilities jolted oil markets. Petrol price was on Sunday hiked by 27 paise to Rs 73.62 a litre in the Delhi market ...
Read More »Amit Shah blames ex-PM Nehru for PoK’s existence
Blaming former prime minister late Jawaharlal Nehru for the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said it would not have come into existence had Nehru not declared untimely ceasefire with the neighbouring country. Targeting Nehru over “non-integration” of Kashmir with India, he said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country’s first home minister, should have handled the issue, ...
Read More »Kejriwal to attend C40 Summit in Denmark next month
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will attend the C40 Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month and speak on his government’s experience in lowering pollution, including the Odd-Even scheme, and other issues, an official statement stated. According to the statement, invited as the leader of one of the world’s largest metropolises, the CM will join leaders of several cities like New ...
Read More »Ticket prices of India’s first private train announced
An official gave information on the fare of the first private Tejas train running from Lucknow to Delhi. He told that for Lucknow to Delhi, the fare of AC chair car is Rs 1,125 and executive chair car fare is Rs 2,310. For the return journey, it is 1,280 for AC chair car and 2,450 for executive chair car. He ...
Read More »Man & girlfriend found dead with bullet marks in Bihar
A young man and his girlfriend were found dead here inside a government office premises with their skulls blown away by gunshots in what police on Saturday suspected to be a case of a “failed” inter-faith romance driving the lovers to suicide. According to Superintendent of Police, Munger, Gaurav Mangla, bodies of Mohammed Asif and Riya alias Twinkle Yadav the ...
Read More »The powerful want to trample me: Harish Rawat
Alleging that some powerful people wanted to trample him, former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat accused the CBI of being “impatient” and “under pressure ” in its probe into the sting operation case. Rawat on Friday said that he was ready for any punishment but his right to justice should be protected. “Some powerful people want to trample me under ...
Read More »Demonstrators march in Hong Kong in new weekend of protest
Protesters marched through an outlying district of Hong Kong on Saturday in a renewed outpouring of grievances against the Chinese territory’s government. The march by several thousand people in Tuen Mun on Hong Kong’s northwest was relatively small compared with previous weekends. There was no violence, in contrast to previous protests that included clashes with police. Hong Kong is in ...
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