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Aug 21, 2024 11:15 PM IST
World News Live Updates: US Job Market Meltdown: 818K jobs disappeared overnight in biggest revision since 2009
- U.S. job market faces 818,000 job loss revision, largest since 2009. Federal Reserve might consider rate cuts as revised job figures show slower growth.
Aug 21, 2024 10:59 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Yogi govt developing dedicated crop and fruit clusters
- As part of this initiative, districts participating in One District One Product (ODOP) farming are being equipped with facilities for grading, packaging, branding, and marketing through common facility centres (CFCs).
Aug 21, 2024 10:58 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Six injured in three separate fire incidents in Pune
- The fire incidents were caused by leaking LPG cylinders in Pimpri, Sinhgad Road and Jambhulwadi areas on Wednesday
Aug 21, 2024 10:57 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Jalandhar MC worker bludgeoned to death over monetary dispute
- A 32-year-old Class 4 employee of the Jalandhar municipal corporation was bludgeoned to death in city’s Jalowal Abadi area late on Tuesday night.
Aug 21, 2024 10:56 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Centre accords ‘Z’ category security to Sharad Pawar
Aug 21, 2024 10:55 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Yogi unveils statute of martyr Captain Anshuman Singh
- Captain Anshuman, who was martyred on July 19, 2023, while saving his mates in Siachen, was posthumously awarded the Kirti Chakra by the Indian government.
Aug 21, 2024 10:54 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Give interest on delayed compensation payment to victim: HC to Centre
- The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the Centre to pay within six weeks the interest on the delayed compensation to a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim, observing that the appellant and his family suffered first at the hands of the rioters and then due to an ‘insensitive and callous’ administration.
Aug 21, 2024 10:50 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: U.P. govt guarantees safety of investors’ capital, says Yogi
- The CM said that in an important development, JK Cement, once a prominent investor in Uttar Pradesh who had lost confidence in the state and shifted its investments elsewhere, had made a return to the state.
Aug 21, 2024 10:48 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: SAD seeks ban on Kangana-starrer ‘Emergency’
- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday demanded the registration of a criminal case against actor and the BJP parliamentarian Kangana Ranaut for hurting the religious sentiment of Sikhs through her unreleased film “Emergency”.
Aug 21, 2024 10:43 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Sourav Ganguly joins wife Dona and daughter Sana in candlelight vigil in Kolkata
- Sana Ganguly, daughter of former Team India Captain Sourav Ganguly demanded justice in the Kolkata rape and murder case.
Aug 21, 2024 10:41 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Erratic rainfall in July caused 2023 floods in Punjab, says PAU study
- A report by the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) here has revealed that erratic rainfall patterns in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh were behind the floods that ravaged the state in 2023.
Aug 21, 2024 10:39 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: Instagram ‘friend’, aide held for 20-year-old’s gangrape
- The police on Wednesday arrested two accused for allegedly gang-raping a 20-year-old woman after taking her to a hotel on Tajpur Road, officials said.
Aug 21, 2024 10:33 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana MC teams seal 2 ‘illegal’ buildings
- The municipal corporation (MC) on Wednesday sealed two illegal buildings in Model Town Extension and near Mali Ganj.
Aug 21, 2024 10:31 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: House guest arrested for raping 12-year-old girl
- A house guest was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in Manewal village of Ladhowal.
Aug 21, 2024 10:27 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana cops begin crackdown on under-age driving, 21 challaned on Day 1
- The police initiated a drive against under-age driving on Wednesday and issued at least 21 challans on the first day, officials said.
Aug 21, 2024 10:21 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: PSPCL slapped fines worth ₹7.8 cr for power theft this year
- With a total of 40 raids conducted this year, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) slapped fines worth ₹7.8 crore over power theft till the end of July, officials aware of the development said on Wednesday.
Aug 21, 2024 10:11 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Samrala man bludgeons father to death with wooden log, held
- A 24-year-old man allegedly bludgeoned his father to death on Tuesday using a wooden log in Gehlewal village of Samrala.
Aug 21, 2024 9:58 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Segregate wet & dry waste: Ludhiana MC chief to staff
- Municipal corporation (MC) commissioner Sandeep Rishi has directed the civic body officials to ensure lifting of segregated dry and wet waste from the households as well as from the static compactor sites across the city.
Aug 21, 2024 9:53 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: Traffic woes outside colleges hazardous for students
- The lack of adequate pathways, signboards, and road infrastructure near colleges in Ludhiana, prominently at Bharat Nagar chowk, Civil Lines, clock tower, and Vardhaman chowk, has raised concerns over road safety of students due to unchecked traffic.
Aug 21, 2024 9:33 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Kumaraswamy slams Karnataka govt over Lokayukta chargesheet request, says Congress is out to malign him
- Kumaraswamy denied any involvement in the case and accused the Congress government of attempting to tarnish his reputation.
Aug 21, 2024 9:28 PM IST
World News Live Updates: Tech tycoon Mike Lynch and daughter Hannah’s dead bodies found in doomed Bayesian superyacht
- Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah were found dead in a cabin of the sunken Bayesian yacht. The yacht capsized with 22 people on board.
Aug 21, 2024 9:00 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Karnataka HC delays ruling on actor Darshan’s bid for home-cooked meals in jail
- Darshan had initially challenged a trial court’s decision, which on July 25, rejected his plea for home-cooked meals.
Aug 21, 2024 8:58 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Remove name, photos of RG Kar rape-murder victim, MeitY tells social media
- The Supreme Court on Monday directed that the identity of victims of rape should be protected and the media including the press, electronic and social media shall not reveal their identity
Aug 21, 2024 8:55 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Don’t declare recruitment results during poll code: EC to Haryana govt
- Acting on a complaint by the Congress, the commission said that there is no bar for continuing regular recruitment process by the UPSC, State Public Service Commissions or the Staff Selection Commission or any other statutory authority and, therefore, there is no violation of commission’s instructions on model code of conduct.
Aug 21, 2024 8:50 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Kolkata rape-murder case: CISF inspect RG Kar hospital after SC order
- A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Tuesday reacted sharply to the August 15 rampage