The sports ministry has extended the deadline for submitting applications for the national sports awards till June 22 and also allowed athletes to self-nominate in sight of the “difficulties” being faced by them to seek out recommenders amid the COVID-19 lockdown. Wednesday was to be the Judgment Day of completing the nomination process but the amount has been extended along side the relief within the process thanks to the issues athletes face in “getting the advice of the prescribed authorities/persons due to country-wide lockdown on account of COVID-19 pandemic.” “…it has been decided to try to to away with the…
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India is among over 50 countries and organisations confirmed to participate within the UK-led virtual Global Vaccine Summit to be hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday. Organisers of the summit said Prime Minister Narendra Modi or a high-level Indian representative is predicted to participate live or with a pre-recorded message along side a minimum of 35 heads of state or government at the event, which aims to boost a minimum of USD 7.4 billion for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in additional resources to guard future generations with vaccines and reduce disease inequality. “The response we’ve had from…
A joint operation was launched by the army, the police and the CRPF in a village in Pulwama. Three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were killed in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama this morning. One security forces personnel was injured in an encounter. One of the terrorists has been identified as “Fauji Bhai”, an improvised explosive device (IED) expert. The elimination of “Fauji Bhai” and the two other terroirsts comes almost a month after Riyaz Naikoo, one of Kashmir’s most wanted terrorists and commander of terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, was killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir. “It is the second…
Not causing much damage after hitting the Maharashtra coast with wind speed of up to 120 kmph on Wednesday afternoon, Cyclone Nisarga weakened into a ‘cyclonic storm’ in the evening, the India Meteorological Department said. The cyclone will further weaken into a deep depression by late night. The process of landfall, which began at 12.30 pm at Alibaug, had completed by 2.30 pm, IMD director general Mrutunjay Mohapatra said. By 4 pm, the cyclone had started weakening with wind speeds of 90-100 kilometres per hour. Although the cyclone made the landfall just 95 kilometres from Mumbai, the metropolitan city largely…
Animal abuse of the worst kind came to light with the recent killing of an elephant in God’s own country. A pregnant hungry elephant which trudged into the so-called civilised village in search of food was betrayed by humans with their barbaric act when it was fed pineapple with crackers. After the crackers exploded in the elephants mouth, the elephant helplessly looked for relief from its excruciating pain. And not able to bear the pain , it died silently standing in the water. The tragic death of the elephant came to light after Mohan Krishnan, a forest officer, posted an…
Security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir have found that Mohd Ismail Alvi, a member of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), had plotted the major attack Pulwama that was averted on Wednesday night. The investigators found that Ismail is allegedly a bomb maker and also a relative of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar. On Wednesday, night a major attack was averted when the police in Kashmir’s Pulwama intercepted a vehicle moving about with 30 to 40 kg explosives in it. The local police got tipped off last night about a terrorist moving around with an explosives laden car ready to blast at some location. It…
A muslim man Mohammed Shaqib, in his late 20s lures a wealthy Hindu girl from Punjab to elope with him. Mohammed Shaqib lied to the girl that he was a muslim. For a few weeks, he charmed her till the wealthy teen eloped from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh to be with him. Only yesterday was it confirmed that the 19-year-old from Punjab, whose family owned a large taxi business, had been murdered a year ago with her body abandoned in a field near Meerut. Her head had been removed; so had her arms; the tattoos on them would have given…
India is nearing the 2 lakh mark after witnessing a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus cases. At 1,90,535 cases, India is the seventh worst hit country in the world, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. India has 93,322 active cases with 91,818 discharges and 5,394 deaths. Globally, the US is the worst-affected with over 17.9 lakh cases, followed by Brazil with over 5.14 lakh cases. Russia (over 4.05 lakh cases), UK (with over 2.76 lakh cases), Spain (over 2.39 lakh cases), Italy (over 2.32 lakh cases) along with the US and Brazil are the only countries…
Sanctioned by the US for its link with the notorious D-Company, the controversial Mehran Paper Mill, located 154 km away from Karachi in Kotri (Sindh), has restarted its operations. Controlled by D-Company’s top lieutenant Anees Ibrahim, brother of India’s most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, the Mehran Paper Mill, in alleged connivance with Pakistan Security Printing Corporation (PSPC), is suspected of printing Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) to destabilise the Indian economy. Though the Sindh government has maintained that Mehran Paper Mill was shut after the sanctions under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act of the US in 2015, has now…
The Delhi Police in its fresh chargesheet filed in the Karkardooma court in connection with the northeast Delhi riots case has claimed that suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain “prepared for the riots well in advance”. The chargesheet which runs into 1,030 pages names Hussain, his brother and 15 others as accused relying upon the testimonies of over 75 witnesses. The chargesheet hints that Hussain had planned the riots well in advance because all the CCTV cameras installed near his house were shut. During the investigation, when the Crime Branch team scanned the CCTV footage, the police could not find anything.…