Bhubaneswar: At least three persons were seriously injured when a speeding car hit four vehicles and crashed into a government quarter on a busy market area in Bhubaneswar Sunday, police said. According to the police, the speeding car, moving from AG Square to Rajmahal Square here, first hit an auto rickshaw and then hit two parked cars...

Imphal: Heavy rain wreaked havoc in Manipur with 3,802 people affected and 883 houses damaged due to floods and landslides across the state in the last 48 hours, officials said  Sunday. Several localities of the state's capital, Imphal, and many parts of Imphal East district have been inundated after a swollen river breached embankments and overflowed in...

Rafah: At least 21 people were killed Sunday as they went to receive aid from an Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip, according to a hospital run by the Red Cross that received the bodies. Officials at the field hospital said another 175 people were wounded, without saying who opened fire on them. An Associated Press reporter...

Guwahati: Two more persons, accused of being "anti-nationals", have been apprehended in Assam, taking the total number of such arrests to 81, since the Phalgam terror attack in April, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Sunday. In a post on X, Sarma said one person each was apprehended from Sonitpur and Kamrup districts. "81 Anti-Nationals are now...

Brasilia: A high-level all-party parliamentary delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor arrived in Brazil on Sunday to convey India's strong national consensus and resolute stance in the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations The delegation, which arrived here from Colombia, was received at the airport by Sandeep Kumar Kujur, Charge d'Affaires. During the...

Kolkata: The BJP's Bengal unit Sunday questioned the "overnight" action of Kolkata Police against Sharmistha Panoli, a law student, accused of hurting the religious sentiments of a particular community, and called the move a vote-bank vendetta. West Bengal BJP president and Union Minister of State, Sukanta Majumdar, questioned why Panoli was arrested for a now-deleted video. Panoli...

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested Additional Director General Amit Kumar Singhal, who was posted at the Directorate of Taxpayer Services, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25 lakh, officials said Sunday. Singal, a 2007-batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service, had allegedly demanded a total bribe of Rs 45 lakh. The first instalment of Rs...

Madrid: The All-Party Parliamentary Delegation, led by DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, arrived in Madrid early Sunday to present India’s zero-tolerance policy toward terrorism. During their visit, the delegation will meet with members of the Spanish government, the Indian diaspora and civil society representatives. "The All-Party Parliamentary Delegation, led by MP Ms. @kanimozhidmk and comprising members @RajeevRai, @CaptBrijesh,...

New Delhi: The price of jet fuel, or ATF, was Sunday slashed by 3 per cent - the third straight monthly reduction on softening international benchmark prices. The fall in international benchmark oil and gas prices also led to a Rs 24 per 19-kg cylinder cut in the rate of commercial LPG used in hotels and restaurants....

Moscow: At least seven people lost their lives, and 30 others were hospitalised after a railway bridge collapsed, causing a train derailment in Russia's Bryansk region, which shares a border with Ukraine. Authorities have cited "illegal interference" as the reason behind the incident, which occurred early Sunday. Russian Railways, in a post on Telegram, stated that the...