Aizawl: Officials of the Mizoram excise and narcotics department seized over 352 grams of heroin from a 27-year-old Myanmar woman and arrested her in Champhai town on Friday night, department spokesperson Peter Zohmingthanga said on Saturday.Lalpekmawi (27), a resident of Khawmawi village in Myanmar’s Chin state, was booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs…
Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi at the Parliament in New Delhi Lucknow: The recent organisational rejig in UP Congress is more than a routine change of roles, believe party insiders. To some of them, the changes speak for ‘the party moving towards a new set of leaders, seen as closer to Rahul Gandhi,…
Rajkot: A man allegedly grabbed an on-duty head constable by his uniform collar, shoved him against a wall and threatened to kill him inside Nilambaug police station in Bhavnagar on Friday night, police said.The accused, Mihir Tank, was booked after the incident, as he entered the police station in an agitated state around 9pm and…
Jaipur: Rajasthan has reported a sharp rise in swine flu (H1N1) cases in Aug, with 32 people testing positive in the fourth week alone, taking the state’s monthly tally to 72 till Aug 28.According to health department data, five cases were reported between Aug 1 and 7. The number rose to 17 in the second…
File photo: Army personnel continue to remain vigilant and guard the borders of the country across the LoC JAMMU: Security forces have launched joint cordon-and-search operations along the LoC and after suspected Pakistan drones hovered in Poonch and Rajouri districts since Friday and reports emerged about movement of armed people in forested belts of Udhampur-Kathua…
Sisters Hema Sunil Amin, left, and Hemangini Jitendra Patel went missing in Nepal floods. (Phoro: BBC) Tulshi Patel, a Pharmacist from Milton Keynes, England, has been looking for her mother, Hemangini Jitendra Patel, and her aunt, Hema Sunil Amin, who went on a pilgrimage to Tibet. Patel last spoke to her mother and aunt on…
The day starts with a tinge of warmth in the air. You may find yourself feeling like nothing is keeping you within your limits. Mars is your ruler, is pushing you to take action, and the Moon stimulates your emotions, and even seemingly small things may start becoming more significant than they really could be….
New Delhi: Two men have been arrested for allegedly robbing a 52-year-old man of Rs 44 lakh in northeast Delhi, police said.The complainant, Jitendra Kumar, told police that he had collected the cash from Avdhesh Tiwari, a scrap dealer, at MS Park in Shahdara and was carrying it on his motorcycle to deliver it to…
Mumbai: Returning to a humid Mumbai after a holiday in the cool, verdant mountains of Nepal would generally bring on the post-vacation blues, but for the 37 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims who landed in the city from Kathmandu on Saturday evening, the heat of the coastal city was a balm after the tragic Nepal flash floods…
Bengaluru: For residents of central Bengaluru’s Shantinagar constituency, patience is wearing thin. Roads have been dug up for laying pipes, pavements are dotted with debris and clouds of dust have become part of daily life. Fed up with the prolonged disruption, residents are simply asking: When will these roads finally be restored?Several key roads in…
