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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a surprise visit to a forward post in Ladakh today days after a deadly border clash with China, told troops that the nation's enemies had seen their "fire and fury". Describing the soldiers as "the braves of the soil", the Prime Minister said the "weak can never accomplish peace, the brave do". Those who laid down their lives for the country belonged to all parts of India and epitomised its ethos of bravery, he said. "Every single Indian across the world, especially in India, has the belief that you all can deliver and keep the…

New Delhi: An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 on Richter Scale struck parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region on Friday evening, said the National Center for Seismology. No damage or any kind of injury has been reported so far. Epicentre of the earthquake was 63 km southwest (SW) of Gurgaon in Haryana around 7 pm on Friday, forcing the people to rush out of their homes. Delhi-NCR has witnessed several earthquakes over the past three months. The dozens of earthquakes that have jolted the Delhi-NCR in the recent months have created panic among the people. Experts and several geologists have also warned that these minor tremors could point…

Following much uproar, Inspector Sridhar, Sub-Inspector Balakrishnan and constable Murugan were arrested in the wee hours on Thursday, by CB-CID under IPC 302 (murder) in connection with the custodial deaths of Jeyaraj and Beniks in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi. The CB-CID which took over the case on 1 July arrested Sub-Inspector Raghuganesh late last night. Constable Muthuraj has been held by the police but his name has not been added to the first information report (FIR) yet.

A moderate-intensity earthquake hit Katra in Jammu and Kashmir today. The quake, measuring 3.6 on the Richter Scale, occurred at 14.02 hours. No immediate reports of casualties or damage has been reported so far.  This afternoon, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck 119 kilometers north-northwest of Kargil, Ladakh as well. The tremors were felt at 13.11 hours.  On Tuesday too, an earthquake with magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale struck 84 kms east of Katra at 8.56 am. 

As many as 28 ministers took oath on Thursday, 2 July, to be part of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, months after it came to power by toppling the previous Congress government. Among those who have taken oath as Cabinet ministers at Raj Bhawan in Bhopal include Gopal Bhargava, Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Imarti Devi, Prabhuram Choudhary and Pradhuman Singh Tomar.

At least seven sleuths of the Kolkata Police detective department have tested positive for Covid-19, sources at the state health department said on Thursday. Test reports of the seven policemen, who had complained of fever last week, confirmed that they have contracted the disease, a senior officer at the department said. All seven of them have been sent for treatment at different hospitals in the city, he said. The entire premises of the detective department at Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar has been sanitised, he added. Sources at the health department said more than 350 policemen here have been diagnosed…