NEW DELHI: India has improved both its long-term and year-wise global climate risk index (CRI) rank, figuring as the 9th and 15th most-affected country globally due to extreme weather events during the 1995-2024 period and in 2024, respectively, compared to the previous year’s assessment, showed the latest CRI report released by the environmental think tank…
Turkish military plane crashes in Georgia (X) A Turkish military cargo plane with 20 people on board crashed in Georgia near the Azerbaijani border on Tuesday, authorities from all three countries confirmed, but gave no immediate number of casualties, reported AP.Turkey’s defence ministry said the C-130 aircraft had taken off from Azerbaijan and was returning…
NEW DELHI: The special CBI court in Delhi Tuesday rejected the plea by former railway minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi against holding a day-to-day trial in the IRCTC case in which they were charged with criminal offences. Observing that the Constitutional courts have asked trial courts to expedite cases against MPs and…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The SIT probing the missing gold from Kerala’s Sabarimala Temple Tuesday arrested former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president N Vasu. He is the third accused in the case related to the gold plating of the temple’s doorframe. Vasu was produced before Pathanamthitta judicial first-class magistrate court, which remanded him to judicial custody for 14…
NEW DELHI: India has improved both its long-term and year-wise global Climate Risk Index (CRI) rank, figuring as the 9th and 15th most-affected country globally due to extreme weather events during the 1995-2024 period and in 2024, respectively, compared to the previous year’s assessment, showed the latest CRI report released by the environmental think tank…
JABALPUR: A 22-year-old woman was murdered in full public view at a bustling junction in Baihar town of Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Tuesday morning, even as onlookers allegedly recorded videos of the attack on their cellphones instead of intervening or helping her. Ritu Bhandarkar, a resident of Samanapur, worked as an attendant at a…
Professional footballers of the top-tier Indian Super League have come together to send a message that they are united in their efforts to get the season underway Panaji: Carlos Delgado, Odisha FC captain, now into his fifth season in India, had a question for the All India Football Federation (AIFF): Do they really care about…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad High Court has refused to quash the FIR filed against two men accused of raising “sar tan se juda” slogan during a procession in Bareilly on Sept 26 when the agitated crowd clashed with police, reports Rajesh Kumar Pandey. A division bench Monday dismissed a writ petition filed by Gauhar Khan and Shakib…
MUMBAI: BMC’s reservation lottery for 227 electoral wards conducted Tuesday may have reshuffled key political cards in the city as several known political faces ended up losing their previously-held seats to one of kind of reservation or other, some others realised they may be able to sneak in from a neighouring ward nonetheless, and some…
Investigators sought an opinion from forensics on whether PETN, semtex or RDX could have been used NEW DELHI: There is mystery over the kind of explosive or chemical used in Monday’s blast with the forensics and NSG’s explosive wing yet to submit their report. However, prima facie assessment points towards the use of military-grade explosives,…
