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The Indian Coast Guard has deployed its boats and aircraft to provide security in the ongoing Gangasagar Mela at the Sagar Island of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. Meanwhile, devotees took a holy dip in the Ganges at Gangasgar for the second straight day Sunday, marking Makar Sankranti. One of the most auspicious times […]
An ATR 72 aircraft of the Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal. According to the initial reports, the aircraft flew from Kathmandu to Pokhara (205 kms) on Sunday morning and the accident took place while landing at the Pokhara airport, around 11: 10 am IST. There were a total of 68 passengers and four […]
Around 125 flyers from several countries participated in the International Kite Festival based on the G-20 theme “One Earth, One Family, One Future.” The week-long festival began on January 8 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. There was a great deal of excitement given that the festival was being organised after a gap of two years. The previous […]
A Madurai-Delhi IndiGo flight was diverted to the Indore airport, late Saturday evening, after a 60-year-old passenger started bleeding mid-air, but doctors declared him brought dead at a local hospital. After the flight landed at the Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International airport, the passenger was taken to a hospital near the airport where doctors declared him […]
In 1823, Robert Bruce discovered wild tea plants growing wild in the upper Brahmaputra Valley. Subsequently, a tea garden was started by the government in 1833 in the erstwhile Lakhimpur district. Cut to today, Assam now produces nearly 700 million kg of tea annually and accounts for around half of India’s overall tea production. The […]
Reliance Jio expanded its True 5G services to three more states – Chhattisgarh, Bihar, and Jharkhand – on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. In Chhattisgarh, the Jio True 5G services started in capital city Raipur and the industrial agglomerate Durg and Bhilai. Bihar also joined the map of Jio True 5G map with the launch […]
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal met Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday and discussed the proposed meeting of G-20 group of commerce and investment ministers to be held in the capital city in August. During the meeting, Chief Minister Gehlot said that the meeting of the G-20 Commerce and Investment Ministers Group […]
Several north Indian states continue to reel under the impact of cold waves and dense fog. The cold wave is likely to continue till January 18 with dense fog covering parts of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana till Monday, disrupting flight and railway services due to low visibility, according to the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD). According […]
Citing the examples of Uri and Balakot, Foreign minister S Jaishankar said the nation will not be coerced by anybody. Addressing the 53rd anniversary day of Thuglak Magazine in Chennai, Jaishankar said India’s counter-response to terrorism, to attempts to change the status quo has been firm. “On the northern borders, China is today seeking to […]
The US health regulator has pulled up drug major Sun Pharma for manufacturing lapses, including failure to follow appropriate written procedures designed to prevent microbiological contamination of drug products, at its Gujarat-based plant in Halol. In a warning letter, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) pointed out various lapses at the Halol plant which […]
China on Saturday reported 59,938 new covid deaths in hospitals across the country over the last 30 days, amid criticism from the World Health Organisation that Beijing was “heavily under-reporting” the magnitude of the pandemic. According to official media reports, in ChinaThe death toll included 59,938 COVID-19 related deaths at hospitals from December 8 to […]
The Gujarat Police arrested K.S. Manjunath aka Santro Ravi, a Karnataka resident, who faces charges of human trafficking, in Ahmedabad on Friday. The 51-year-old political fixer wanted in at least 21 cases – from murder, human trafficking, prostitution to fraud — was rounded up after a 10-day hunt since a lookout notice was issued by […]
Various programs are organised under the cleanliness campaign by the government. Under which the education minister of Gujarat state, Praful Panseria personally cleaned the toilet of the primary school in the Kamrej area of Surat and gave a message of cleanliness. During the surprise visit of the Education Minister to Kamrej’s school, he held various […]
The 108 Emergency Management Service reported 29 cases of kite-related injuries till afternoon including 14 in Ahmedabad alone. There were also 73 cases of people falling down from heights including 16 in Ahmedabad and 11 in Surat. In Visnagar, a 4-year-old girl died after a lethal kite thread cut her throat. In Vadodara also a […]
On Saturday, people gathered on rooftops, terraces, and open grounds across Gujarat to fly kites in celebration of the Uttarayan festival. Union Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel were also present with their families. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah, CM Patel and Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat greeted people on the occasion. “Best wishes […]
In a joint operation with the Gujarat state GST mobile squad and Dahod district police, seized a truck with a forged number plate smuggling alcohol near Pusari village on the Dahod-Indore highway on Friday. The truck, which was registered in Uttar Pradesh, was also carrying forged invoices claiming to have transported butter from Bhopal in […]
A Rajasthan government engineer has been suspended for breaching the security protocol of President Droupadi Murmu and attempting to touch her feet during an event on January 4. The Public Health Engineering Department suspended the engineer on Friday following the intervention of the Home Ministry. Read the order by the chief engineer (administration), PHED that […]
A woman, who had accused her co-passenger Shankar Mishra of urinating on her on an Air India flight, on Saturday refuted the claims made by him that she seems to have urinated on herself, saying these are “completely false and concocted and by their very nature are disparaging and derogatory”. Mishra’s counsel, while arguing against […]
Known for her bold and unconventional take on life, fashion and issues in general, actor/ social media star Urfi Javed is in news again. This time for slamming spiritual leader Sadhguru over his views on LGBTQ. Taking to her Insta handle, the actor came down heavily on the guru’s open denunciation of variegated sexuality preferences. […]
Just in case the world thought Britain’s Prince Harry had told it all in his just out “Spare,” the ex-Duke Of Sussex has, in an interview to The Telegraph stated that he still has enough material for another book. “Spare” reveals difficulties in Harry’s relationship with the rest of his family, particularly with Prince William […]
