RANCHI: A crucial meeting of INDIA bloc legislators began here on Wednesday, amid speculations of a change of guard in the state, MLAs of the alliance said. The meeting has been convened by former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, who is also the executive president of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Soren […]
SIWAN (BIHAR): In a troubling trend for Bihar, a portion of a bridge over Gandaki river in Siwan district collapsed on Wednesday morning, marking the seventh such incident in the state within the past 15 days. The small bridge, situated in the district’s Deoria block, connects several villages with Mahrajganj. No casualties have […]
Srinagar: A masjid and several houses were damaged in a massive fire that broke out in the Umer Colony area of Srinagar’s Eidgah, officials said. An official said that fire broke out in Umer Colony area today morning and soon after fire tenders reached to the spot. He said by the time […]
SRINAGAR: The Kashmir Tourism Department on Tuesday banned the entry of school buses in the tourist resort of Gulmarg on weekends as part of regulatory measures to manage a heavy rush of visitors. In an advisory, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Tourism Development Authority, Gulmarg, said in view of the heavy rush of […]
HAlTHRAS (UP): A stampede at a religious congregation Tuesday killed 116 people, most of them women, as devotees suffocated to their deaths and bodies piled atop each other in the worst such tragedy in recent years. The stampede took place as the ‘satsang’ here ended. Some accounts said people […]
Hathras: Over 50 people died and several others were injured in a stampede at a religious congregation here on Tuesday, officials said. They said the incident occurred at a ‘satsang’ event in Pulrai village where people had gathered in large numbers. Senior Superintendent of Police, Etah, Rajesh Kumar Singh said, “Twenty-seven bodies have arrived […]
Islamabad: A United Nations human rights working group has called for the immediate release of incarcerated former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and said he had been detained “arbitrarily in violation of international laws”.The 71-year-old Imran has been behind bars since August last year and has been convicted in a volley of cases in […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked NDA MPs to follow parliamentary rules and conduct, and learn from senior members about the best practices, comments that came a day after the ruling alliance accused Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi of making a “most irresponsible” speech. Addressing a meeting of NDA MPs, Modi said […]
NEW DELHI: A defiant Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said truth can be expunged in the world of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but not in reality, hours after significant parts of his Lok Sabha speech were deleted by the chair. “Whatever I had to say, I have said and that is the truth. They can expunge […]
Jammu: Over 50,000 pilgrims from different parts of the country paid obeisance at holy cave of Shri Amarnath Ji in first three days of the pilgrimage, which started from twin tracks of Baltal and Nunwan- Pahalgam on June 29. Officials said that 23,437 pilgrims paid obeisance at holy cave by till evening. With this, the […]