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NEW DELHI: Whitewashing of Sambhal Jama Masjid began on Sunday after the orders of the Allahabad high court, which also allowed the mosque to be decorated with lights without any tampering. The high court, in its March 12 order, permitted decorative lighting of the Masjid’s exterior, provided no structural modifications are made. The court scheduled…

PSPCL increases vacancies to 3000 and extends assistant lineman application deadline PSPCL assistant lineman recruitment 2025: The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has extended the deadline for online applications for the Assistant Lineman position. The new application deadline is March 17, 2025, providing more time for candidates to apply. Additionally, PSPCL has increased the…

NEW DELHI: Former Bihar minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap Yadav is facing massive backlash from all quarters for his “dance or be suspended” remark to a policeman during Holi celebrations. On Saturday, he accused BJP, RSS, and media of politicising the festival and spreading hatred.“Don’t mind, it’s Holi… Even this festival…

NEW DELHI: In the last one year, the Supreme Court has acquitted more than a dozen persons, who were convicted concurrently by the trial courts and the High Courts and sentenced to death or life imprisonment, in cases that included rape-cum-murder of a 10-year-old girl and manslaughters.Despite repeated SC rulings that concurrent decisions of the…

Puri temple (Representative image) BHIUBANESWAR: A Bengal tourist, Bhaskar Samanta (26), was arrested Saturday for allegedly capturing footage of deities inside Puri Jagannath temple using a spy camera. The shrine strictly prohibits access of mobile & cameras within its premises. Cops seized the device & charged him under BNS sections for intentionally committing acts that…

NEW DELHI: The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has issued a statement in connection with the train hijack incident, claiming responsibility for executing 214 hostages, alleging that Pakistan’s refusal to negotiate led to their deaths. The BLA said the Pakistani forces ignored a 48-hour ultimatum for a prisoner exchange, resulting in the mass execution of only…

SILIGURI: A real-life “Jurassic Park” is taking shape in the cloud-draped Eastern Himalayas – not to resurrect dinosaurs, but a last stand for species on the brink. Here, among red pandas and snow leopards, science is not cloning the past, but saving what remains of the present.Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling is India’s…

NEW DELHI: Government of India slammed Pakistan for alleging Indian involvement in the Balochistan train hijack, saying the whole world knows where the epicentre of terrorism lies. In another run-in with Pakistan at UN, India also hit out at Islamabad for raising the Kashmir issue as it reiterated Jammu & Kashmir will always remain an…

BHOPAL: A police rescue operation in MP’s Mauganj turned fatal on Saturday when a mob lynched both the hostage and an ASI.SDPO Ankita Sulya, who led the rescue operation, recounted being trapped in a room with the dead hostage while an enraged crowd rioted outside. It wasn’t until her rescue that she learned ASI Ramcharan…

RAJKOT: Rajkot witnessed another fire tragedy Friday when three delivery men died during a blaze inside a 12-storey upscale residential building that had not renewed its fire NOC for a decade.Sources suspect an electrical short circuit in an unoccupied sixth-floor flat of the Atlantis building where furniture work was underway and a lot of wood…