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Retired IAS officer Arun Goel takes charge as new Election Commissioner

Retired IAS officer Arun Goel on Monday took charge as the new Election Commissioner of India.

Nov 21, 2022

Farooq Abdullah likely to be CM face of Gupkar Alliance in J&K; reasons explained [details]

Two potential chief ministerial candidates Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have already announced not to contest assembly elections in J&K.

Nov 20, 2022

China forcing marriages between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs [shocking details]

China mixes financial, educational and career incentives with coercive measures such as threats to families under state policies to promote intermarriage between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region.

Nov 20, 2022

Who is Fawzul Kabir; Kashmiri entrepreneur's cricket bats powering int'l players' strokes

Fawzul Kabir runs a Kashmiri willow bat industry named GR8 Sports on the Srinagar-Jammu highway near Sangam. Kabir's bats are now being used by several international players.

Nov 20, 2022

Went missing in 1999 Odisha super cyclone; Andhra man reunited with family after 23 years [details]

Miracles do occur and the Baral family from Puri, Odisha, will certainly agree. An octogenarian, presumed killed by the super cyclone that lashed the Odisha coast 23 years ago, has been reunited with his family.

Nov 20, 2022

Forces recover heroin worth crores from J&K's Uri; foil PAK-based terrorists' designs [details]

Forces foiled another attempt to smuggle narcotics to fund terror groups. Pakistan-based terror groups are making money by selling drugs. This money is used to finance terror groups active in J&K.

Nov 20, 2022

Lashkar terrorist in police custody killed by other terrorists [see what happened]

A policy party was taking the hybrid terrorist of LeT for identification of a hideout when terrorists hiding in a hideout resorted to indiscriminate firing in which the terrorist under police custody was killed.

Nov 20, 2022

Bengali actress Aindrila Sharma passes away aged 24; suffered multiple cardiac arrests [details]

Aindrila Sharma breathed her last on November 20, 2022. The actress suffered multiple cardiac arrests.

Nov 20, 2022

J&K on high alert after drone spotted hovering over airport [details]

As the airbase of the Indian Air Force was attacked by two drones on June 27, 2021, security forces are on high alert after a drone was spotted hovering over Jammu airport.

Nov 20, 2022

Isha Ambani, Anand Piramal welcome twins; see what they've named newborns [read now]

Anand Piramal and his wife Isha Ambani have been blessed with a set of twins on Saturday, November 19, the two excited families announced here on Sunday.

Nov 20, 2022

Zakir Naik in Qatar ahead of FIFA World Cup, to give religious lectures during tournament [details]

Zakir Naik has been living in Malaysia as a runaway fugitive in exile since 2016

Nov 20, 2022

From spurned men to unfaithful partners, the many shades of crimes of passion [details]

In Jharkhand's sub-capital Dumka, Shah Rukh and his accomplice Naeem recently set Class 12 student Ankita Singh on fire after pouring petrol on her.

Nov 20, 2022

Mangaluru auto blast terror act, not an accident: K'taka DGP

Karnataka's Director General of Police (DGP), Praveen Sood on Sunday declared that the blast in a moving auto in Mangaluru was a terror act and not an accident.

Nov 20, 2022

Indian tourist in Bangkok mistakenly takes a transvestite to hotel room, demands his money back, loses wrist watch too

When the tourist reported the incident to the Pattaya Police, the officer in turn informed him that he violated Thai prostitution laws

Nov 19, 2022

I am not an escapist, will fight next assembly polls, asserts Farooq Abdullah [details]

Omar Abdullah has already announced that he will not contest assembly elections till statehood to J&K is restored.

Nov 19, 2022