Pro-Khalistan elements based in Canada have been luring gullible Sikh youth to the North American country by sponsoring their visa with the sole objective of using them to carry out their agenda on Canadian soil, sources said on Wednesday.
The original Gadar: Ek Prem Katha has been re-mastered at a cost of Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million). Not only that, the newly enhanced viewing experience will have extra scenes that were not a part of the film when it originally released.
Squandering the relief due to rain, Delhi recorded a jump in pollution levels and a smoky haze returned on Monday morning after residents flouted the ban on firecrackers on Diwali night.
Bharat Earth Movers Limited Chairman and Managing Director V R S Natarajan on Tuesday appeared before the CBI as the agency had asked him to come for giving clarifications pertaining to procurement and supply of Tatra all-terrain trucks to the Indian Army.
The government is contemplating the imposition of the fee to be collected by the army-run National Logistics Cell as a condition for reopening the supply routes that were closed in retaliation for a cross-border NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November.
Police said the exact death toll could not be ascertained, as the victims were blown to pieces.
The city's Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 420 at 8 am on Thursday, compared to 426 at 4 pm on Wednesday. The AQI map prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board showed clusters of red dots (indicating hazardous air quality) spread across the Indo-Gangetic plains.
The accused involved in the kidnapping and killing of four members of an Indian-origin Sikh family, including a baby girl, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one for each life lost, authorities in California said.
Truck rentals have surged six-eight per cent, while retail freight is up by 12-15 per cent after a hike in diesel prices by Rs 2.58 (ex Delhi) and Rs 3 per litre (ex Mumbai and Chennai) was announced in the Budget proposal last week.
'We are lucky to have survived'
There is no plot, no central story line or theme. It appears Atlee felt if he put a Shah Rukh Khan (there are two of them actually!) on screen doing just about anything, the film would sell, sighs Nitin Sathe.
United States President Joe Biden and his top advisors have warned Israel that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering in the crisis-stricken region, CNN reported.
At least sixteen persons were killed when a speeding truck ran over them on the Dolka-Bagodra highway near Ahmedabad on Thursday, said the police. The incident took place near Bejwa crossroad on the highway where a number of people on their way to the pilgrimage were sleeping on the roadside, they said. Sixteen persons have died on the spot while several others were injured, said the police, adding that the injured victims were admitted to the V S Hospital in Ahmedabad.
According to authorities, Salgado, a former employee with a longstanding dispute, likely killed them within an hour of kidnapping the family.
The air quality is expected to improve further due to wind speed favourable for the dispersion of pollutants.
Yevgeny Prigozhin -- who was once seen as extremely close to Vladimir Putin -- has claimed Putin's removal as Russia's president, saying there will be a new leader in the Kremlin soon.
'There is a need for a national task force with a singular objective to increase automotive exports.'
Prices of essential commodities are likely to rise because of the strike, which has been called to protest against frequent hikes in diesel prices and value added tax.
With Delhi recording air pollution levels seven to eight times above safe standards on Monday, the city government announced the return of its flagship odd-even scheme after four years anticipating further deterioration of air quality post-Diwali.
The poisonous haze has been causing significant problems for people with existing respiratory issues, according to doctors.
In his order, the judge expressed displeasure over slaughtering of cows and noted a cow is "our mother", not just an animal.
This time, Delhi saw a sharp improvement in air quality just ahead of Diwali which can be attributed to intermittent rainfall on Friday and wind speed favourable for the dispersion of pollutants.
'If Israel had stuck to the peace accords, Hamas would have had no one to fight.'
Kohrra is a terrific ensemble piece but the two fine leads keep show glued together, applauds Aseem Chhabra.
Australia's George Bailey felt like he was "hit on the face with a truck" when a Nathan Coulter-Nile bouncer knocked his helmet off in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.
Two aircraft with life-saving drugs from Guwahati arrived in Manipur on Monday as trucks with essential supplies and petroleum products began entering Manipur, which has been cut-off by a Naga student blockade on two highways from Assam and Nagaland since April 16.
Vehicles from Assam are now allowed to enter Meghalaya, a senior police officer said.
Taliban fighters attacked a truck carrying supplies for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces in the restive Khyber tribal region of Pakistan on Monday, killing its driver, officials said.
The family, originally from Harsi Pind in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, was kidnapped at a business in Merced County, California, on Monday.
India's climate change goals are turning combustible. On the one hand, a protracted dispute between the government and manufacturers over subsidies threatens to slow the pace of electric vehicle (EV) sales. On the other hand, repeated assertions by different arms of the government over banning sales of new fossil fuel-fired vehicles have queered the pitch for energy investments. Before we address the issue of the recommended diesel vehicle ban in the recent report on energy transition, issued months before the next round of global climate talks begin in Dubai in November, let's look at what's at stake.
'My point to everyone is, look, if you have an opportunity to alleviate the pain, you should do it, period. And if you don't, you're going to lose credibility worldwide'
Twenty pilgrims, including 15 women, were killed and 50 injured when an over-loaded mini truck rolled down a 100 feet deep gorge near village Nari on the Hoshiarpur-Dharmsala road in the wee hours on Thursday.
A statement from the Army's Northern Command said its personnel have been conducting 'relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in an ambush on an Army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in Jammu region last month'.
As many as 57 arms, 318 pieces of ammunition and five bombs have been recovered in Manipur, taking the total number of recovered arms and ammunition to 868 and 11,518, respectively, security advisor to Manipur government Kuldiep Singh said on Wednesday.
During the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the joy of receiving a domestic cooking gas cylinder is priceless.
The apex body of petroleum workers in Assam on Thursday said it has stopped transportation of fuel to Meghalaya, following reports of attacks on vehicles from Assam in the backdrop of violence along the inter-state border that left six people dead.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation of four distinct cases from the Assam police, all connected with the death of the state police sub-inspector Junmoni Rabha last month in a suspected road accident, according to officials.
If 4,000 workers could work round the clock for the construction of the new Parliament building, then there is no reason why all infrastructure projects too cannot follow that model, asserts Dr Sudhir Bisht.
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