Category: Events

Death toll reaches 903 in Nepal flash floods The death toll from catastrophic flash floods and landslides in Nepal has risen to 903, according to Nepalese authorities, as large-scale rescue operations continue across flood-hit areas.The disaster has also left around 4,247 people missing, while 10,451 people have been rescued so far, the data showed.The floods...

Bill Gates warns on AI jobs loss, Bernie Sanders backs him US Senator Bernie Sanders has thrown his weight behind Bill Gates once more, endorsing the Microsoft co-founder’s warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious danger to jobs and to human life. Writing on X late Sunday night, the Vermont senator said Gates was right...

Owaisi pointed to Uzbekistan’s historical connection with Babur NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi took a dig at the BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred Uzbekistan’s highest state honour.PM Modi was presented with the Order of “Oliy Darajali Dustlik” by Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his two-day state visit to the Central Asian...

Islamic scholar Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar stated women should remain confined to their homes. KOCHI: Islamic scholar Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar on Sunday said women should remain confined to their homes, days after a controversial circular issued by the Kanthapuram faction of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama said women should not share public...

Students protest at Sainik School in Sikar on August 23 (File photo) We might be underestimating just how significant it is when schoolchildren across the country start protesting about the lack of basic infrastructure. Their complaints precede politics, and focus on things central to their prospects in life. There is nothing abstract about these issues,...

Rupee opens 13 paise weak against US dollar Rupee started Monday on a weak note as higher crude oil prices and geopolitical tensions weighed down the currency, while growing expectations of a September US Fed rate hike boosted the dollar. Rupee opened at 95.56 against the US dollar at the interbank foreign exchange market, 13...

A 16-year-old student was allegedly gang-raped inside a moving sleeper bus. NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old Class 11 student from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly gang-raped inside a moving sleeper bus after she boarded the vehicle seeking help while stranded in heavy rain, police said.The incident took place on the night of August 4 after the teenager,...

The ENT doctor allegedly found that the boy’s eardrums in both ears were swollen and appeared to be close to rupturing. NEW DELHI: A three-and-a-half-year-old boy was allegedly physically and sexually assaulted at a private playschool in northeast Delhi’s Maujpur. His father said the child had been troubled for several days before falling seriously ill...

How India’s digital mapping works Nearly every textual land record in India is now digital, with 99.90% of Records of Rights (RoRs) computerised. But how does a piece of land on the ground eventually get a digital identity?The answer lies in a mix of digitised maps, georeferencing and unique identification numbers for land parcels. The...

A 22-year-old man attacked two sisters with acid after his marriage proposal was rejected. MEERUT: Enraged over a rejected marriage proposal, a 22-year-old man allegedly broke into a house in Madhapur village, Hapur, and attacked a 21-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister with acid while they slept on Sunday.The victims, who sustained burn injuries to...