Month: February 2019

February 04 Angry over his younger brother securing a government job on compassionate grounds, a 30-year-old man allegedly set two rooms of their house on fire, killing four members of the family and injuring four others in West Bengal’s Malda district, police said Monday. The incident occurred at Madantola village under Manikchak police station, they said. Accused Makhan Mondal allegedly poured petrol in two rooms of the tiled-roofed hut on Sunday night when the family members were asleep. Makhan’s younger brother Gobinda, 28, elder brother Bikash, 32, and Goninda’s two daughters – aged 3 and one-and-a-half years – were charred to death, police said. The two children died on the spot while Bikash and Gobinda succumbed to injuries in hospital, they added. Bikash’s wife, son and daugh...

February 04 Thirty-three people were injured after a private bus fell into a gorge at Gopalpur in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district on Monday, a district official said. The condition of eleven of them is critical. Ten of them have been referred to the Tanda Medical College and one to a hospital in the district’s Palampur sub-division, he added. The others injured are being treated at a hospital in Gopalpur, he added. The accident took place after the bus — registration number HP28B1989 — of the Jawahar Bus Service fell into the gorge near Gopalpur Monday morning, he added. (PTI)

January 04 The Modi government has effectively given up on the Triple Talaq bill and the Citizenship Amendment Bill— that were awaiting consideration by the Rajya Sabha. The opposition parties made clear that they could not guarantee smooth functioning of the House if any contentious bills were tabled. The decision on the bills to be tabled in the Upper House was taken at a meeting chaired by Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu that included government representatives and leaders of all the opposition parties. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narendra Singh Tomar held a 30-minutes-long follow-up meeting with the Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad and leaders of other parties. The Rajya Sabha will now take up only six legislative proposals including one to replace an ordi...