NEW DELHI: At least 30 people lost their lives after heavy rains triggered a landslide near the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.Heavy rain and flashfloods also wreaked havoc in Kashmir Valley causing severe damage to infrastructure. This comes days after flash floods triggered by a cloudburst struck Kishtwar district’s Chisoti, the last motorable…
BHOPAL: A spycam in a bulb holder in a hotel room – that’s how a 22-year-old engineering girl student and her 25-year-old boyfriend plotted a blackmail bid in Gwalior recently. The arrest of the two, along with another friend, blew the lid off the sinister plan With the arrest of the alleged mastermind, Radha Choube,…
NOIDA: The investigation into the death of 26-year-old Nikki Bhati, in which her husband Vipin is the prime accused and has been charged with murder, has taken a turn. CCTV footage that emerged on Monday purportedly shows Vipin standing at a grocery shop outside their Greater Noida house at the time when Nikki was allegedly…
New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice B V Nagarathna has strongly dissented against the collegium’s decision to elevate Patna high court chief justice Vipul Manubhai Pancholi to the top court, saying the move would be “counter-productive” to the judiciary.The five-member collegium, comprising CJI B R Gavai and Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, J K Maheshwari…
President Donald Trump once again warned that the United States would impose steeper tariffs on China if it curbed exports of rare-earth magnets, a move that could jeopardize a fragile trade truce between the world’s two largest economies. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump stated, “They have…
NEW DELHI: Nearly one in three school students in India now takes private coaching, with the practice far more common in urban areas, according to latest Comprehensive Modular Survey (CMS) on education released by govt. The findings sketch a system where government schools remain central in rural India while urban families increasingly prefer private schools…
New Delhi: At 21% above normal, north India has so far recorded its wettest monsoon since 2013, the year of the cataclysmic Kedarnath flash flood. Worryingly, in Aug, the region has experienced by far the highest number of ‘extremely heavy’ rain events since the India Meteorological Department (IMD) began collating this data in 2021.Till Aug…
New Delhi: Supreme Court may have fixed timeline for the President and the governors for taking a decision on bills passed by state assemblies, but has not been able over nearly 24 years to get high courts to comply with its 2001 judgment laying guidelines on speedier pronouncement of verdicts reserved in cases.In 2001, SC…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Tuesday stated that public places cannot be occupied indefinitely, and Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange cannot hold a protest at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai without prior permission from authorities. The high court mentioned that while democracy and dissent are cut from the same cloth, demonstrations should only be held…
Texas Republican Valentina Gomez (Source: X/@ValentinaForUSA) Teaxs Republican congressional candidate Valentina Gomez has triggered fresh outrage online after releasing a video on X where she is seen setting the Islamic holy book, the Quran, on fire. The video was captioned, “I will end Islam in Texas so help me God”, quickly went viral, drawing widespread…
