As the incessant monsoon rains continued, flood situation in Assam further worsened on Saturday with 1,289 villages in 21 districts being inundated, distressing 4.63 lakh people, while the Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level at many places in nine districts, officials said. Meanwhile, officials of the state-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) said that due to the heavy downpour over the past few days, Baghjan – where its leaking oil well caught fire – and adjoining areas in Tinsukia district have been badly hit by flood water and the accident site has been inundated, affecting the efforts to douse the…
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Pakistan on Saturday decided to reopen the Kartarpur Corridor for Sikh pilgrims on Monday on the occasion of the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the 19th century leader of the Sikh empire. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi took to microblogging website Twitter to make the announcement, reports The Express Tribune. “As places of worship open up across the world, Pakistan prepares to reopen the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for all Sikh pilgrims, conveying to the Indian side our readiness to reopen the corridor on 29 June 2020, the occasion of the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh,” Qureshi said in…
Taking a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Saturday urged him not to politicise matters of national security, and remember that after the 1962 India-China war, 45,000 square km of Indian territory were occupied by the Chinese. “Let’s not forget what happened in 1962 when China occupied 45,000 square km of India’s territory. While levelling such allegations, one must also consider what happened in the past,” said the former Defence Minister. Pawar was responding to questions about Gandhi’s accusations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had surrendered Indian territory to China in the recent…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington was imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for the national security law for Hong Kong, the media reported. On Friday, Pompeo said the sanctions targeted “current and former” party officials, reports the BBC. China has proposed the security legislation that would make it a crime to undermine Beijing’s authority in Hong Kong, and could also see China installing its own security agencies in the territory for the first time. Pompeo’s statement on Friday, which did not name the Chinese officials affected by the US…
Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Saturday. Hours after two rockets were fired into southern Israel, IDF aircraft conducted an airstrike late Friday against a rocket manufacturing workshop and a weapons manufacturing facility, Xinhua news agency quoted the IDF as saying in a statement. There were no immediate reports from the Gaza Strip on the extent of damage or injuries. “The IDF views any kind of terror activity aimed at Israel with great severity and will continue operating as necessary…
Five of the eight Congress legislators, who had resigned prior to the Rajya Sabha elections, will don the saffron ”Khes” (colour) on Saturday. According to sources in the BJP, the formal welcome ceremony will take place at the BJP state headquarters at ”Kamalam” in Gandhinagar on Saturday. According to information, five former Congress MLAs out of the total 8 legislators, who had resigned before the Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, will be formally joining the BJP. Full-fledged preparations are underway at the state party headquarters in Gandhinagar. According to sources, the state party chief Jitu Vaghani will be welcoming them…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) booked former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath”s sister Nita Puri along with her husband Dipak Puri and son Ratul Puri in a bank fraud case to the tune of Rs 787 crore after it came to fore that the Directors of the Moser Baer Solar Limited (MBSL) instead of utilizing the amount towards the repayment of the consortium of banks invested a sum of Rs 696 crore in Helios Photovoltaic Limited (HPVL), managed and looked after by the husband wife duo. The CBI had registered a case on June 26 against nine people…
Mumbai Police is questioning a well-known casting director with Yash Raj Films (YRF) at the city’s Bandra police station in connection with the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, an official said today. Police are investigating whether professional rivalry, if any, was the reason for the actor’s depression. Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his apartment in Bandra on June 14. The casting director, Shanoo Sharma, reached the police station in the afternoon after she was summoned by the police. “Shanoo Sharma, a casting director with the Yash Raj Films, is being questioned at Bandra police station,” said Abhishek…
The death of a father and son in police custody in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district has sparked massive outrage on social media and become the centre of a battle between ruling AIADMK and opposition DMK in the state. https://twitter.com/suchi_mirchi/status/1276218996602228737?s=20 P Jayaraj and his son Fennix, arrested for violating lockdown norms over business hours of their mobile phone shop, died on June 23 at a hospital in Kovilpatti. The relatives of the duo alleged that they were severely thrashed at a police station by police personnel before being taken to the hospital. The incident had triggered a furore in the state. Traders…
BJP President JP Nadda hit out at Congress counterpart Sonia Gandhi today over alleged links between the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, of which she is the chairperson, and fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi. Mr Nadda, who made the point in a list of 10 queries targeting the Congress on an alleged “relationship” with the ruling CCP (Communist Party of China), demanded Mrs Gandhi answer his question. “Some months back we saw a huge hue and cry over Mehul Choksi. The crown prince of Congress used the most obnoxious language for the Prime Minister. It has now come to light Mehul Choksi was…