Month: April 2022

The owner of the house where the terrorists took shelter on Friday recalled how the army rescued his family The owner of the house where the terrorists took shelter on Friday recalled how the army rescued his family. Mohammad Anwar Hussain, who is in his 40s, said, “After the attack, they came running to my house and hid themselves in an old washroom in the backyard in the night. I was not present at the house. My wife and two young daughters were sleeping inside and the AC was on.”…

Health experts have commended the move to start imposing fines on those spotted without a mask in Delhi, and said the removal of the penalties may have played a part in the present Covid cases spike. The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Wednesday decided to reintroduce the mask mandate, which was lifted on April 2 this year, when Covid-19 infections and the test positivity rate appeared to be falling back to record lows. (HT Photo/Sunil Ghosh) People travelling together in private cars are not required to wear masks, a…

Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Ravi Rana and his wife independent Member of Parliament (MP) Navneet Rana said they would chant Hanuman Chalisa outside Matoshree.  A warning by two Maharashtra leaders – Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Ravi Rana and his wife independent Member of Parliament (MP) Navneet Rana – has prompted the Mumbai Police to tighten the security outside chief minister Uddhav Thackeray‘s Bandra home – Matoshree. Last week, Ravi Rana had threatened to chant “Hanuman Chalisa” outside the CM’s home. “Uddhav Saheb has forgotten Hindutva, the ideology on which he…

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who has been in the United States, spoke on India’s purchase of oil and weapons from Russia amid the Ukraine war.  Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who has been in the United States this week, on Friday spoke of the Washington-New Delhi ties in context of India’s geography, stressing that ” a friend can’t be weak”. “You can choose your friend but not your neighbour,” the finance minister said as she explained that “India does not have an option to relocate” and, accordingly, the country has to take…

The police raided an apartment in Bhubaneswar and arrested the man’s driver, who is alleged to be his wife’s paramour. BHUBANESWAR: A woman who allegedly paid a supari of ₹1 lakh to a contract killer to eliminate her husband, who is a senior railway official, in Bhubaneswar last week is on the run after the plan did not materialise, police said on Friday. Binayak Behera, who works as a senior section engineer at Mancheswar Railway Workshop of East Coast Railway zone in Bhubaneswar, suffered grievous injuries on Saturday last when he was…