India asks Pak to probe collapse of domes of Kartarpur Gurudwara
New Delhi: India has taken up with Pakistan the issue of collapse of domes of the Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara, one of Sikhism’s holiest shrines, government sources said on Sunday. India has conveyed to Pakistan that the damage to the structures in the gurudwara has caused “great consternation” among the Sikh community, they said. “India has urged Pakistan that in deference to the sentiments of the Sikh community, the deficiencies which led to the damage to the newly constructed structures be urgently rectified and remedied,” said a source. In November last year, the two countries threw open a corridor linking Dera Baba Sahib in Gurdaspur in India and Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, in a historic people-to-people initiative. Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara is located in Pakistan’s Narowal district across the river Ravi, about four kilometres from the Dera Baba Nanak shrine. It is the final resting place of Sikh faith’s founder Guru Nanak Dev. The sources said India conveyed to Pakistan that the strong sense of faith and devotion of the Sikh community to the holy site must be fully understood and appreciated. (PTI)
8 held for not wearing masks in Agra
Agra: Eight persons have been arrested in the Loha Mandi area of Agra for allegedly not wearing face masks. The police have charged all the eight persons, including two women, under the CrPC section 151 (arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offences). The accused were presented before the executive magistrate who sent them to jail for 14 days on Saturday for not wearing the mandatory face masks in public. Narendra Sharma, station house officer (SHO) of Loha Mandi police station said, “All the eight accused were picked up from different locations such as Sayeed Pada, Moti Kunj, Nai Basti, Telipada and Nau Basta area, where they were either wandering on street without any specific purpose that too without mask or were gathered in group violating the protocol of lockdown.” The Uttar Pradesh government has made it compulsory to wear mask or hide mouth and nose in public places. (IANS)
Woman killed by tiger in Maha
Nagpur: A 38-year-old woman was killed by a tiger in Paoni forest in Bhandara district of Maharashtra early on Sunday, officials said. This is the fourth such incident that has happened within a week in Vidarbha region of the state, they said. The incident took place in Mouza Sawarla forest range between 5 am and 6 am when the woman had gone to collect mahua flowers. The place is around 2.5 kms from her village, the forest department said in a statement. “She had gone to collect the flowers along with her husband when a tiger attacked her and killed her on the spot,” it said. The woman’s body was sent for post-mortem and financial assistance was given to the family of deceased, the statement said. (PTI)
