India has blocked the Russian portal which was used by banned pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) for online voter registration for ”Referendum 2020” to demand Khalistan, which seeks a separate homeland for the Sikhs. Agencies say that the government”s move and heavy security arrangements in Punjab turned the much publicised anti-India campaign ”Referendum 2020” a futile exercise. However, the SFJ claimed to have distributed 10,000 voter registration forms throughout the state in a day. Soon after inputs received that the SFJ launched the ”Referendum 2020” voter registration through the Russian website www.punjabfree.ru, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) with the…
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The government has withdrawn a planned reopening of the Taj Mahal, citing the risk of new coronavirus infections spreading in Agra from visitors flocking to see the monument. Local authorities issued a new advisory late on Sunday ordering an extension of lockdown curbs on monuments in and around Agra. The government order did not specify the duration of the lockdown for monuments that have been closed since March. “In the interest of the public, it has been decided that opening monuments in Agra will not be advisable as of now”, the district authorities said in a notice published in Hindi.…
Coronavirus cases crossed the 9,000-mark with detection of 469 more cases in Odisha even as two more casualties took the state’s death toll to 36, the Health Department said on Sunday (5 July). The two deaths were reported in the last 24 hours — a 40-year-old male from Gajapati district and a 64-year-old male from Sundergarh district, who was also suffering from diabetes. The corona cases in Odisha now total 9,070, including 3,090 active cases and 5,934 recoveries. Of the new cases, 317 were detected in quarantine centres while 152 are local contact cases. Ganjam district reported the highest 116…
Pakistani Hindus suffer greatly at the hands of their Muslim tormentors in Pakistan. Hindus in Pakistan halted the construction of the first Hindu Temple in the city in the as the wall of temple is demolished by Islamic extremists. Hardline extremists had been opposing the construction of the Temple and eventually, some of them took the matter in their own hands. As it turns out, one of the individuals who demolished the boundary wall went so far as to record the whole thing and post the video on Facebook. He was quite obviously proud of his actions and demonstrated remarkable…
Neither equipped with any arms or ammunition nor anticipating that they would face an “encounter-like” situation in Kanpur’s Bikhru village, police personnel headed unprepared towards the trap laid by gangster Vikas Dubey at his mansion, said a policeman who survived the ambush in which eight of his colleagues were killed. Speaking to reporters, Kaushalendra Pratap Singh, the station officer of Bithoor police station in Kanpur district who was injured in the savage attack on a police team, recalled the events of the intervening night of Thursday-Friday that unfolded like a gangster film. “Dubey’s men were fully prepared. Each of them…
Its confirm Aarya-2 will hit online platform soon, Sushmita Sen claimed on Sunday Filmmaker Ram Madhwani has announced season two of Sushmita Sen-starrer series “Aarya” and said the second installment will see the titular character facing new obstacles. The Disney+Hotstar series, a politician remake of popular Dutch crime-drama “Penoza”, revolves around Aarya Sareen, played by Sen, a happily wife whose world turns the wrong way up when her husband is shot. She gets to understand that he may are involved in an illegal drug racket which now threatens her family. The show co-created by Madhwani and Sandeep Modi marked Sen’s…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called on President Ram Nath Kovind and therefore the two leaders discussed problems with national and international importance, Rashtrapati Bhavan officials said. The meeting comes after the Prime Minister had visited Leh earlier within the week and addressed soldiers following the June 15 clashes in the higher reaches of that region with Chinese troops during which 20 army personnel sacrificed their lives for the state. After the meeting, the Rashtrapati Bhavan tweeted, “Prime Minister @narendramodi called on President Kovind and briefed him on the problems of national and international importance…”.
China-Bhutan border Bhutan’s foreign ministry issued a demarche to the Chinese embassy in New Delhi for the claims made by Beijing over Sakteng Wildlife sanctuary, situated in eastern Bhutan. The protest was lodged by the Royal Embassy of Bhutan in New Delhi. While Thimphu and Beijing do not have formal diplomatic relations, the two sides have been in talks to resolve the border issues between the two countries and demarcate the boundary. Bhutan’s western and middle sector have been in dispute with China. However, the eastern sector has not been part of the boundary talks and China had not claimed…
Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and are calling for the World Health Organization (WHO) to revise recommendations, the New York Times reported on Saturday. The WHO has said the coronavirus disease spreads primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes or speaks. In an open letter to the agency, which the researchers plan to publish in a scientific journal next week, 239 scientists in 32 countries outlined the evidence showing smaller…
India has now taken the third spot in the list of nations worst hit by coronavirus. The country logged more than 6.9 lakh cases on Sunday evening, according to data from state governments, overtaking Russia, which had 6.8 lakh as per America’s Johns Hopkins University (JHU). India is now preceded only by Brazil and the US. Brazil has over 15 lakh cases and the US has more than 28 lakh. India added a record number of coronavirus cases on Sunday. In its daily morning update, the health ministry reported just under 25,000 cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours –…