Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Friday today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the country's poor ranking in the Global Hunger Index. Sibal shared a tweet mocking the claims of the government on eradicating poverty, hunger, and also on making the country a global power.
In a shocking incident, the body of a young man with the left wrist chopped off was found near main stage of protesting farmers at Singhu border. The man was brutally murdered and his body was found hanging from a barricade near farmers' protest site on Friday morning. The incident has caused a huge outrage among the farmers who were initially not allowing the police to visit. However, officials of the Kundli police station were later allowed to take the body to the nearby civil hospital.
Amid the coal crisis across India, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar assured that there will not be a shortage of coal or an incidence of power cuts in the state during the festival season.
India recorded new 16,862 cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 379 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Friday, the country saw a total of 19,391 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 98.07 per cent and total recoveries to 3,33,82,100.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said terrorists were resorting to targeted killings in Jammu and Kashmir to instil fear. Addressing the annual Vijayadashmi rally at Reshimbagh ground here, Bhagwat said military preparedness on borders needs to be increased.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to former president APJ Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary on Friday, saying he dedicated his life in making India strong, prosperous and capable, and will always remain a source of inspiration for the people of the country.
Two Army personnel, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO), were martyred in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said on Friday. According to a defence spokesperson, the JCO and a jawan were critically injured during a counter-terrorist operation in the Nar Khas forest area in Mendhar sub-division on Thursday evening. Both of them succumbed to their injuries subsequently. The operation is ongoing, he added.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
