Category: Events

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll rolls, two Booth Level Officers (BLOs) died in Uttar Pradesh. While 46-year-old Sarvesh Singh hanged himself in Moradabad’s Baheri village, a woman BLO named Shobharani died of cardiac arrest in Bijnor.According to news agency PTI, Sarvesh Singh confessed to feeling suffocated and said there...

The Indian crisis of civic sense. NEW DELHI: Across India, behaviours such as littering, spitting, flouting queues, honking needlessly, encroaching on public spaces, and damaging shared property have become so routine that they often pass without notice.They are not merely behavioural glitches; they are embedded, inherited patterns. The problem is not just policy, enforcement, or...

The rising toll on Indian’s abroad and the shrinking safe havens Vijay Kumar was returning to his place when he was waylaid and stabbed multiple times on an isolated stretch, leaving him dead in UK’s Barbourne Road on November 25.His death, thousands of kilometres away from his village in Haryana, marks yet another dark chapter...

MADURAI: A devastating head-on collision between two govt-operated buses near Vivekananda Polytechnic College under Nachiyarpuram police station limits in Sivaganga district’s Tirupattur Utkottam claimed the lives of at least 11 people and left more than 20 injured.The accident occurred around 5:00 PM on Sunday, sending shockwaves across the region and halting evening traffic on the...

NEW DELHI: A teenage girl in Maharashtra’s Nanded performed symbolic wedding rituals with the body of her murdered boyfriend, hours after her father and brothers were arrested for allegedly killing him over their inter-caste relationship.Police said 25-year-old Saksham Tate was attacked on Thursday evening in the Juna Ganj area after being called there by the...

The Union government has issued new directives requiring messaging platforms to enforce SIM card verification and automatically log out web-based sessions every six hours. This means that users will be barred from accessing their services if they do not have a physical SIM card originally used to register for the application present in their device....

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal’s Bajhang district in Sudur Paschim province on Sunday afternoon, country’s national earthquake monitoring and research centre (NEMRC) said.The quake, recorded at 12:09pm local time, had its epicenter in the Saipal mountain region of Bajhang, according to NEMRC. Officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.Residents in nearby...

AP file photo The death toll from severe floods and landslides in Indonesia has risen to 442, with 402 people still missing and at least 646 others injured, the national disaster agency reported on Sunday.At least two cities on Indonesia’s hardest-hit Sumatra island remained unreachable on Sunday, prompting authorities to deploy two warships from Jakarta...

NEW DELHI: At least eleven people were killed on Sunday after two busses collided head-on in Tamil Nadu‘s Sivaganga district.According to police official, a child was also killed in the accident near Kummangudi Road, while nearly 40 others were injured.(This is a developing story)

Public anger over Hong Kong’s deadliest residential fire in decades has spilled into the streets, even as a student activist who demanded accountability was reportedly detained under the city’s national security regime.Miles Kwan, 24, had been distributing flyers outside a city train station on Friday, urging commuters to support an independent investigation into the blaze...