Kolkata tragedy: AIIMS docs to protest at Jantar Mantar today

IANS | August 31, 2024 8:41 AM

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Doctors at the nation’s premier medical institute AIIMS-Delhi will hold a protest in the national Capital on Saturday afternoon to seek justice for the rape and murder victim at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal.

Three terrorists killed in two J&K gunfights (Ld)

IANS | August 29, 2024 9:54 AM

Srinagar, Aug 29 (IANS) Three terrorists were killed on Thursday in two encounters in J&K’s Kupwara district as the third operation against terrorists continued in the Rajouri district.

Senior IPS Officer B. Srinivasan appointed NSG chief

IANS | August 28, 2024 5:27 AM

New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Senior IPS officer B. Srinivasan was on Tuesday appointed as the Director General (DG) of the National Security Guard (NSG), the country's counter-terrorism force, according to a Personnel Ministry order.

Biden, PM Modi back UN charter-based end to Ukraine conflict, says White House

Yashwant Raj | August 27, 2024 4:35 AM

Washington, Aug 27 (IANS) US President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi have affirmed their support for a peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war "in accordance with international law and on the basis of the UN charter," the White House said on Monday in a statement of their phone conversation earlier in the day.

Germany stabbing: Chancellor Scholz vows to crack down on illegal immigrants

IANS | August 26, 2024 9:02 PM

Berlin, Aug 26 (IANS) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday vowed to curb irregular migration in the wake of a Syrian asylum seeker being charged with killing three people in a stabbing attack in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia last week and deport those found ineligible or found involved in crime.

Massive police deployment ahead of students protest march in Kolkata

IANS | August 26, 2024 1:15 PM

Kolkata, Aug 26 (IANS) A total of 4,000 police personnel will be stationed in different pockets of Kolkata, especially the connecting points with the adjacent Howrah district, in view of Tuesday's 'Nabanna Abhijan' (March to Secretariat) call given by students to protest against the R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital rape-murder case.