India

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Days after nine individuals linked to Khalistani outfits were declared as terrorists, the government on Sunday announced that 40 websites belonging to Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), an outlawed organisation, have been blocked for supporting secessionist activities.

The US-based Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) is a pro-Khalistan group.

Nagpur, Jul 5 (PTI) A 24-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl at Chacher village in Nagpur district of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.

The accused Durgesh Shende is a neighbour of the victim, an official said.

Shende works in a company in Hyderabad, but is currently staying at his home in the village due to the lockdown, he said, adding that the accused is an alcoholic.

NEW DELHI, July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — India announced Monday that it had logged nearly 700,000 coronavirus cases, taking it past Russia to become the world’s third-hardest-hit nation in the global pandemic.

The health ministry said 697,358 cases had now been recorded, a rise of 24,000 in the last 24 hours, while Russia has just over 681,000 cases.

India has registered 19,963 deaths from the virus, a much lower number than many other badly hit countries. The United States and Brazil have the highest numbers of cases.

Kanpur/Lucknow, Jul 6 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh police have suspended three more of their men, suspecting that they tipped off Vikas Dubey whose gang members killed eight policemen in an ambush at a village near Kanpur last week.

Police on Monday also increased the reward for Dubey arrest to Rs 2.5 lakh, up from the Rs 1 lakh offered earlier.

UP Director General of Police H C Awasthy said police are conducting raids to track down the gangster, based on information they get.

Lucknow, Jul 6 (PTI) In a bid to tighten the noose around Vikas Dubey, posters of the gangster have been put up at all toll plazas in Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said on Monday.

Dubey is involved in the killing of eight police personnel in Kanpur on July 3.

Kanpur; 06 July 2020 (UMMN): UP police has demolished terrorist Vikas Dubey’s palatial house in Kanpur’s Bikru village after the brutal murder of eight policemen including a DSP.

Police found a bunker with two kg of explosives, six country-made pistols, 25 live rounds and shrapnels.

KANPUR: The shopkeepers are not allowing the beggars to enter their shop in this time of social distancing. 

Though it was nothing new for them, they have their own reasons behind this open particular refusal.

They were asking them to wait outside the shop and beseech for alms. One shopkeeper was directing a woman beggar not to enter the shop. But she would ask for money standing outside the shop, he instructed. She at once turned back hearing the voice of the shopkeeper.

Kolkata, Jul 4 (PTI) The COVID-19 pandemic has caused "demand destruction" in the overseas markets and it is likely to continue for the next few quarters, eminent bankers said on Saturday.

The disruption will last for six to eight months before business starts to bounce back, they said.

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) To augment India's border infrastructure, a large number of highway projects are underway including in Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, both by the BRO as well as NHIDCL, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.

Work is also progressing on 17 strategic highway-cum-airstrips, three of which have been completed, he said.

Thiruvananthapuram, July 4 (PTI): Kerala on Saturday urged the Centre to make "earnest efforts" to build international pressure to ensure that a fair trial is held against the two Italian marines who shot and killed two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in 2012.

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said: "It is quite shocking that such a grave crime committed against our citizens is not being brought to justice in our country.