BHOPAL: Two Indian Navy kayakers, including an Asia Cup gold medallist, were killed after a speeding truck rammed into their motorcycle and dragged it for nearly 20 metres in Bhopal early Sunday, reports Ramendra Singh. The deceased – chief petty officer Vishnu Raghunathan, 27, and petty officer Ananth Krishnan, 18, both from Kerala – were…
NEW DELHI: India has seen its highest foreign tourist arrival (FTA) growth in percentage terms from Somalia between pre-Covid 2019 and 2024. At over 144%, the poor east African country is the only one to register a triple digit growth rate, surging from 5,044 in 2019 to 12,320 in 2024, according to Union tourism ministry…
TARAKESWAR: A four-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped in her sleep, raped and dumped in a locality in Tarakeswar in Bengal’s Hooghly district Saturday. Police arrested one of her close relatives, reports Falguni Banerjee. The child lived with her grandparents. Hours after she went missing, locals allegedly found her gravely injured, bleeding profusely, and crying for…
SERAMPORE: A 27-year-old homemaker in Bengal’s Hooghly district consumed pesticide along with her six-year-old daughter in a suspected suicide attempt amid claims she did so as she was not given SIR forms and feared being struck off electoral rolls. Asha Soren was married eight years ago but had been staying with her parents in Kananadi…
After the Delhi High Court directed authorities to ensure legal access for Major (Retd.) Vikrant Kumar Jaitly, who has been detained in the UAE since September last year, actress Celina Jaitly has shared an emotional note for her brother. The Bollywood star, who has been relentlessly fighting to bring him home, poured her heart out…
PALAKKAD: Three young men were killed and three others injured after the driver lost control of their car and crashed into a tree at Kallingal junction near Kodumba in Kerala’s Palakkad late on Saturday night. The accident took place when the driver swerved to avoid a wild animal, likely a wild boar, on the road,…
Doctor Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed (35), tailor Azad Suleman Sheikh (20) and student Mohammad Suhail (23) (left to right) AHMEDABAD: A 35-year-old Hyderabad doctor arrested in Gujarat with drone-smuggled weapons from Pakistan and materials to produce the deadly toxin ricin was identified Sunday as the central figure in an IS-sponsored terrorist plot to strike multiple Indian…
A sub-engineer with MP’s Singrauli Municipal Corporation forged a promotion letter from the CM’s office in Bhopal on Aug 21 to “promote” herself to assistant engineer. The ruse came undone when officials verified the document and determined it was a fake. A cheating and forgery case was filed against the 34-year-old woman, who has since…
Probe also revealed that two members of the alleged syndicate had travelled to southern African countries to practise hunting (AI-generated image) BHOPAL: What began as a wildlife meat seizure of blackbuck and sambar in Madhya Pradesh has exploded into one of India’s most chilling wildlife crime investigations – a sprawling probe that has unearthed an…
BUDGAM: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah Sunday accused PDP of paving the way for the abrogation of Article 370 by aligning with BJP in 2015.“The termination of government employees’ jobs didn’t begin after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, it started during the PDP-BJP govt headed by Mehbooba Mufti,” the National Conference…
