Category: Events

MUMBAI: At least 4 people were killed and 14 others injured after a BEST bus driver lost control of the vehicle while taking a tight U-turn outside Bhandup (W) railway station and rammed pedestrians on the footpath late Monday, police said. The incident comes a year after the Kurla bus crash which claimed nine lives.Monday’s...

SIR hearings underway in Bengal KOLKATA: An 82-year-old jumped on the railway tracks hours before his scheduled appearance at a hearing for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls at Para in Bengal’s Purulia Monday. A septuagenarian from Howrah and another from Kalyani died after receiving SIR hearing notices. Family members of both blamed SIR...

Smriti Mandhana, Shubman Gill Smriti Mandhana is close to creating new records with her batting in 2025. The India opener has scored 1,703 runs across formats this calendar year, the most by any woman in a single year. She needs 62 more runs to become the highest run-scorer of 2025 across both men’s and women’s...

Smriti Mandhana Indian women cricket team’s vice-captain Smriti Mandhana said focusing on the World Cup win will not help the team prepare for the next one and added that the side still has areas to work on ahead of the T20 World Cup scheduled next year.Mandhana returned to form in the fourth T20I against Sri...

NEW DELHI: From French and Israeli-origin missiles to ‘Make in India’ kamikaze drones and counter-drone systems as well as range extension of existing missiles and artillery rockets, the defence ministry on Monday gave the preliminary nod to a slew of military modernisation projects worth Rs 79,000 crore.The biggest project to get acceptance of necessity, first...

Dibrugarh: Ten people of Bangladeshi origin were arrested Monday for attacking police and freeing a man accused of posting pro-terrorist content online, after a planned mob assault in a village in Assam’s Lakhimpur.The assault triggered outrage as it involved “Miya” people – referred to Bengali-speaking immigrant Muslims of Bangladeshi origin in Assam, a population estimated...

NEW DELHI: Industrial output growth surged to a 25-month high in Nov, led by a rebound in manufacturing and mining sectors offsetting the contraction in electricity.Data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Monday showed the index of industrial production (IIP) rose an annual 6.7% in Nov, higher than the 0.5% recorded in Oct...

NEW DELHI: Starting Thursday, Australia is set to provide duty-free access to all Indian exports under the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Monday.“From Jan 1, 2026, 100% of Australian tariff lines will be zero-duty for Indian exports, unlocking fresh opportunities for labour-intensive sectors,” Goyal posted on...

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Israel would not exist today if Benjamin Netanyahu were not the country’s prime minister, US President Donald Trump said during a meeting with the Israeli leader outside his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Netanyahu met Trump to discuss the next phase of the fragile Gaza truce, as well as broader regional issues, including Iran. Trump warned...