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SAD announces closure of membership drive

India, Feb. 21 -- Chandigarh The parliamentary board of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) announced on Thursday the closure of the process of distribution of membership copies for enrolment of new member... Read More


Delhi air quality improves, remains in moderate zone; min temp dips

India, Feb. 21 -- Delhi air quality improved but remained in the moderate category for a third day even as the minimum temperature dipped by a couple of notches to 12.3degC, or 2.7degC below the norma... Read More


Swachh workers claim they are forced to collect garbage in bags as plastic buckets not provided

India, Feb. 21 -- PUNE Swachh employees have alleged that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) did not provide plastic buckets for them to collect the garbage and as a result, they were forced to coll... Read More


A classical-folk jugalbandi in Virginia!

India, Feb. 21 -- Dhrupad, a pristine form of Hindustani classical music that derives from the ancient Chhand-Prabandh Gayan offered compositional structure to the abstract raga. Swami Haridas and Tan... Read More


2030 Commonwealth Games on India's radar

India, Feb. 21 -- India is interested in hosting the 2030 Commonwealth Games and is planning to send a letter of intent to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), according to a top official in the S... Read More


Lucknow cyber police take down fake portal resembling excise department website

India, Feb. 21 -- LUCKNOW The Lucknow Cyber Police unearthed and blocked a counterfeit e-lottery portal that was created by cyber thugs to dupe people. The fake website mimicked the excise department'... Read More


Karnataka: Three migrant workers hit by train while filming reels in Doddaballapura, die on spot

India, Feb. 21 -- Three migrant workers lost their lives after being hit by a train while recording videos, reportedly for social media reels, in Karnataka's Doddaballapura on Wednesday afternoon. Th... Read More


Punjab AGTF arrests aide of terrorist Lakhbir

CHANDIGARH, Feb. 21 -- The Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of the Punjab Police on Thursday arrested an associate of foreign-based terrorist Lakhbir Singh alias Landa Harike. Disclosing this, Punjab ... Read More


Delhi court to sentence Sajjan Kumar on Feb 25 in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

India, Feb. 21 -- A Delhi court is set to pronounce the quantum of sentence against former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar on February 25 following his conviction in the murder of a father and h... Read More


Paddy farmers in dilemma over seed selection amid last season's losses

India, Feb. 21 -- Chandigarh As farmers prepare to sow seeds for paddy nurseries, uncertainty looms over the choice of varieties. The previous paddy procurement season (October-November 2024) saw ric... Read More