Monday night saw a major fire breaking out in Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk area. No casualties were reported, but goods worth many crores have been destroyed. According to the fire control room, they were alerted about the fire around 9.35pm in Katra Dulia, where around thousand wholesale garments shops are[Read More…]
Digital payments firm Paytm on Tuesday launched its payment bank with 4 % interest rate and cashback on deposits, zero fee on online transactions and no minimum balance requirement, as they seek to attain a target of 500 million people by 2020. The firm is backed by Chinese firm Alibaba[Read More…]
Former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Prabhunath Singh along with two others were awarded life sentence by a court in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on Tuesday. They have been convicted in link with a 22-year-old MLA Ashok Singh’s murder case. Singh along with his brother Dinanath and former mukhiya Ritesh Singh were[Read More…]
The results of the Class X exams of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) were declared on Tuesday showing the girls surpassing the boys. Significantly, the pass percentage of girls’ was 63.97, much more than the boys’ whose number stood at 52.35 per cent. The overall pass percentage was 57.5.[Read More…]
At least 9 people were booked for kidnapping children by Ratlam Government Railway Police on Tuesday. The accused were taking 60 tribal children to Nagpur. They were booked under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act. Nine accused including two women were detained at Ratlam railway station by the Railway[Read More…]
ED arrests CA Rajesh aggarwal in case of alleged accommodation entries to companies linked with Lalu Yadav’s daughter Misha Bharti. More to follow…
The 10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather successfully underwent an abortion and is doing better now. She was discharged from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak on Monday. The minor has been rehabilitated to a Child Care Institution (CCI) in Bahadurgarh by[Read More…]
Even though the political parties declared the candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls for 10 seats in West Bengal, Gujarat, and Goa, the Election Commission has postponed the polls. The election was supposed to take place June 9. No new dates were declared now. Out of 10 seats, six[Read More…]
Amid speculations that superstar Rajinikanth is ready to join politics, Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari sends out an open invitation to the actor. The BJP has already thought of an ‘appropriate position’ for the megastar, said Gadkari while speaking to CNN-News18. Significantly, Gadkari shares a ‘good[Read More…]
Extra Luxurious train ‘Tejas Express,’ with ultra-modern facilities began its maiden journey on Monday. Flagged off by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu through video-conferencing in the presence of Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal, Sachin Tendulkar and other dignitaries, the train started from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) and will reach Goa’s[Read More…]
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha supported RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday. “Enough of negative politics and mudslinging by opponents on our political leaders, be it Kejriwal, Lalu (Prasad) Yadav or Sushil Modi,” Sinha tweeted. Favoring Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Kejriwal, Sinha said, “Individually[Read More…]
The Congress party on Monday said that the International Court of Justice’s intervention in Kashmir issue is not a practical move while responding to the reports of Pakistan’s alleged move to seek redressal on the same from the ICJ. Islamabad is gravely ‘mistaken in the matter,’ it added. “In the[Read More…]
In a blow to the VIP culture, an ambulance of Hosmat hospital, which was carrying an emergency patient, was given precedence over Chief Minister of Karnataka convoy. The ambulance was allowed to overtake CM of Karnataka convoy with their concurrence. “BTP (Bangalore Traffic police) stood by my instructions to prioritise[Read More…]
Two unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia have killed a Samajwadi Party leader on Sunday evening. According to police, Sumer Singh (48) and his friend Manoj Mishra were going to Gopalpur village on a bike to attend a function. But, they were attacked outside Bahuwara village under Lalganj police station.[Read More…]
Hundreds of people gathered at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on Sunday, protesting against the ongoing caste disturbances in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh.They were led by the Bhim Army, an organisation fighting for Dalit rights. Despite being denied permission by the Delhi Police, members of several Dalit groups gathered at the protest[Read More…]
On Sunday, Anshu Jamsenpa, an Indian mountaineer, reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time, in less than a week, setting a women’s record for a double ascent of the world’s highest mountain in a single season. The 37-year-old mountaineer returned from the 8,848-metre (29,028-feet) peak on May[Read More…]
In a tribute to India’s missile man Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, NASA scientists have named a new organism after him. The researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have discovered a new bacteria and named it Solibacillus kalamii to honour India’s former president. Senior research scientist, Biotechnology and Planetary Protection[Read More…]
On Saturday, Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) confirmed the much-anticipated policy under which selected private firms will be included to build military platforms like submarines and fighter jets in India in partnership with foreign entities. This decision is viewed as a major initiative that aims to create a better defence manufacturing[Read More…]
Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday that the government must take steps to the ban the practice of Triple Talaq if the Muslim community fails to change the practice. “It is for the society to take up the issue and it will be good if the (Muslim) society[Read More…]
As fear of being attacked by the ransomware, Wannacry, grips the global netizens, Newsd talks to Pukhraj Singh, a renowned cyber-security expert. He played an instrumental role in setting up the cyber-warfare operations centre of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), India’s technical intelligence agency. Singh also helped chart the course[Read More…]
On Saturday, Sam Pitroda lashed out at the Odisha BJP unit for demanding his removal as the Technical Advisor to the state government in the wake of WannaCry ransomware attack. BJP’s state unit Vice-President Samir Mohanty had recently alleged Pitroda of his involvement with the National Herald case, demanding that he[Read More…]
BJP state media coordinator of its scheduled caste cell, Neeraj Shakya has been expelled from the party after he was arrested by the Bhopal Police cyber cell for allegedly running a sex racket. Neeraj along with eight of his associates was arrested on Friday as the police rescued four girls who[Read More…]