Lucknow, September 20 : An Additional Director General-level officer is to probe the alleged deal made by an Uttar Pradesh special wing IG to let go Nabha jailbreak accused Gopi Ghanshyampura alias Gurpreet Singh from police detention in Lucknow. Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar in a statement on the social media on Tuesday night said, “From […]
Mexico City, September 20 : At least 248 people were killed when a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico, including 21 children crushed beneath an elementary school that was reduced to rubble. The destruction revived horrific memories in Mexico on the anniversary of another massive quake in 1985, the disaster-prone country’s deadliest ever. One of the […]
Melbourne, September 19 : A Sikh family in Australia on Tuesday won a legal battle against a Christian school which refused to enrol their five-year-old son because of his turban. Sidhak Singh Arora was due to start preparatory at Melton Christian College (MCC) in Melbourne’s north-west, this year.But his patka (children’s turban) does not comply with […]
London : Former England football captain Wayne Rooney received a two-year driving ban on Monday after pleading guilty in a British court to drink-driving, the Press Association news agency reported. Rooney apologised for his “unforgivable lack of judgment” in a statement issued after he entered his guilty plea at Stockport Magistrates’ Court, near Manchester in […]
Chennai : So which team benefitted and which suffered from the rain interruption during the series opener in Chennai on Sunday? It’s difficult to tell with certainty, for even the two participating sides have conflicting views about it. While the Australian skipper Steve Smith felt the rain-forced changes in the contest — their innings was […]