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New Delhi: Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu and the gangster-turned-social activist Lakha Sidhana have been named by the Delhi Police in an FIR in connection with the unprecedented violence in the capital on Republic Day and the Red Fort incident January 26. The Delhi Police has...

New Delhi: A low-intensity earthquake of magnitude 2.8 hit Delhi Thursday morning, the National Centre for Seismology said. The epicenter of the earthquake was West Delhi and it occurred at a depth of 15 kilometres at 9.17 am.

New Delhi: Paying tributes to Lala Lajpat Rai on his birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that his contribution to the freedom struggle is indelible and inspires people across generations. Born in 1865, Rai was a noted freedom fighter from Punjab and came...

New Delhi: With 11,666 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India Thursday continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,01,193, health officials said. For the past 21 days, the country has been recording less than...

Shahjahanpur (UP): The son of a BJP legislator has been booked for allegedly assaulting a man in a poll-related rivalry. Neeraj, the son of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Chetram from Powayan constituency of Shahjahanpur, has been booked under IPC Section 307 (attempt to murder),...

Lucknow: Absconding IPS officer Arvind Sen has surrendered before a Lucknow court in a criminal case related to duping a Madhya Pradesh businessman. The court remanded him to judicial custody till February 9 after he surrendered Wednesday evening. Arvind Sen is slated to retire from...

New Delhi: Indian young leader Alina Alam is among 20 extraordinary young individuals from 18 countries who have been announced as finalists for this year's Commonwealth Youth Awards. The awards recognise outstanding Commonwealth young people whose projects are transforming lives in their communities and helping...

New Delhi: As many as 37 farmer leaders, including Rakesh Tikait, Yogendra Yadav, Darshan Pal and Gurnam Singh Chaduni, have been named in an FIR in connection with the violence during the tractor parade that left 300 police personnel injured even as two farmer unions...

Jaipur: Eight people, including three children, died and four were injured in a road accident in Rajasthan’s Tonk district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. The passengers, residents of Jirapur in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district, were returning home after visiting the Khatushyam temple...

Chandigarh: Actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu is in the eye of a storm for being among the protesters who put up a religious flag atop the Red Fort on Republic Day.    Many farmers’ bodies blamed Deep Sidhu for inciting protesters to head towards the Red Fort during...