Actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence, Mumbai Police said. Confirming suicide, the police said no suicide note was found. The actor was 34. “He has committed suicide at his residence in Bandra. Our team is there,” Manoj Sharma, Additional Commissioner of Police, Western Region, told PTI. A statement released by the actor’s team said, “It pains us to share that Sushant Singh Rajput is no longer with us. We request his fans to keep him in their thoughts and celebrate his life, and his work like they have done so far. We request media to…
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The Odisha police on Saturday claimed to possess busted a wildlife smuggling racket, after a poacher was arrested and two leopard skins seized from his possession in Nayagarh district. Acting on a tip-off, officials of the special task force conducted a raid in Ranpur area and caught the person with the leopard skins, STF Superintendent of Police, Prashant Kumar Bhoi, said. Around 30 pieces of leopard bones were also recovered from the accused, he said. “Efforts are on to determine on how the animals were killed,” Bhoi said, adding, the hides and bones are going to be sent to a…
Former opener Gautam Gambhir feels Indian players lack “mental toughness” to handle pressure in crunch situations and can’t call themselves world champions unless they prove themselves in big-ticket tournaments just like the World Cup . India won the ODI World Cup twice in 1983 and 2011 but are knocked call at the semifinal stage in four editions, including the last two editions in 2015 and 2019. In T20 World Cups, India had triumphed within the inaugural edition in 2007 and reached the finals in 201sho “What sets you aside from being an honest player to being a really excellent player…
Army Chief General M M Naravane on Saturday said the safety forces in Jammu and Kashmir have had tons of successes recently as people there are uninterested with militancy and need normalcy to return to the Union territory. “As far as Jammu and Kashmir or our western neighbour cares, we’ve had tons of successes within the last one week or ten days. within the last 10-15 days alone quite 15 terrorists are killed there,”Naravane told reporters on the sidelines of the IMA’s passing out parade which he addressed because the reviewing officer. “All this has been due to the close…
Chinese health authority said on Sunday that it received reports of 57 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Saturday, of which 38 were domestically transmitted and 19 were imported. Of the domestically transmitted cases, 36 were reported in Beijing and two in Liaoning Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report, Xinhua reported. No deaths related to the disease were reported Saturday, according to the commission.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has announced a cash reward of Rs 50,000 to anyone providing information about the person who tortured a prized ”jallikattu” bull to its death at Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu. In a statement, citing a news report about the death of the bull, it said: “PETA India is offering a reward of up to Rs 50,000 to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for this act, which violates the Indian Penal Code (IPC).” “The tethered, helpless bull, named Kasi Eswara, reportedly died…
Yoga guru Ramdev-run Patanjali Ayurved has claimed that it has discovered substantial cure for coronavirus with 80 per cent success rate as per reports. CEO of Patanjali Ayurved Acharya Balkrishna said the company will share the results of clinical trial soon, and that the patients treated by the said medicine have tested negative. The company is conducting clinical trials as per government regulations. The Health Ministry on Saturday stated that during the last 24 hours, a total of 7,135 COVID-19 patients have been cured. Thus, so far, a total of 1,54,329 patients have been cured of COVID-19. The recovery rate…
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to win 4 seats in the ensuing biennial elections to the 7 seats in the Karnataka Legislative Council and strengthen its position in the Upper House, an official said on Saturday. “With 116 legislators in the 225-member Assembly, we will win 4 Council seats in the bypoll on June 29, as each candidate needs 28 votes to become a Member of Legislative Council (MLC),” says BJP”s state unit spokesman G. Madhusudhana Though the party has the numbers to ensure victory of all its 4 nominees, selecting them will be a challenge, as…
Having absconded the police for two months now, the preacher of Tablighi Jamaat, Maulana Saad Khandalvi finally came out of his hideout to offer namaaz in Delhi’s Zakir Nagar. According to Delhi police, Maulana Saad sneaked out on Friday to offer prayers at the Abu Bakr mosque in Delhi’s Zakir Nagar. Maulana Saad who is booked under several charges for purportedly organizing religious congregation when the coronavirus cases were reported in different parts of the country. Despite repeated government orders, he flouted every safety norm risking the lives of thousands including foreigners. Maulana Saad is yet to submit his COVID-19…
After a dry spell of 43 days due to the COVID-19 lockdown since late March, liquor sales resumed at Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) outlets in Tamil Nadu, except state capital Chennai, on May 7. According to media reports, people from Chennai have been travelling to other districts in the state to purchase alcohol, forcing to police to be extra vigilant to ensure that people from the state capital, which has recorded a high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, do not travel to other districts. Tamil Nadu Police officers, who were checking the vehicles at a toll plaza,…