Bhubaneswar/Bhadrak: More than 11,000 people in six districts have been affected by the floods in Odisha, an official said Sunday. Over 1,000 people have been rescued from the affected areas in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Sundargarh, and Keonjhar districts to safer places, he said. Addressing...
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand Police Sunday said the preliminary investigation into the Mansa Devi stampede has indicated that the incident occurred due to panic triggered by rumours of electric current. Six devotees lost their lives in the stampede. Haridwar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Parmendra Singh...
Haridwar: At least six people have been killed in a stampede that broke out at the Mansa Devi Temple in Uttarakhand's Haridwar early Sunday, SSP Pramendra Singh Dobal confirmed. The incident occurred due to overcrowding in the temple premises as thousands of devotees thronged the...
Haridwar: A stampede broke out at the Mansa Devi Temple in Uttarakhand's Haridwar early Sunday morning, leaving several devotees injured. The incident occurred due to heavy overcrowding in the temple premises as thousands of devotees thronged the sacred site during the ongoing holy month of...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear Monday a plea filed by Justice Yashwant Varma challenging his indictment by the three-member in-house committee in the cash-discovery episode. The hearing assumes as 145 MPs from both the ruling and Opposition parties July 21 had...
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among other dignitaries, Saturday paid tributes to the armed forces personnel who fought valiantly in harsh conditions to defend India's territory and delivered a crushing defeat to Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil conflict. On July...
Drass (Kargil): Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi Saturday launched three projects, including a portal where people can pay 'e-shradhanjali' to martyrs, as part of the 26th Kargil Vijay Diwas. The others were a QR code-based audio gateway, on which people can listen to...
Jhalawar (Rajasthan): A regular morning alive with the chatter of students assembling for prayers quickly turned into tragedy Friday when a portion of their government school building collapsed, killing seven children and injuring 27, some of them critically. The youngest of those who died was...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha will take up a bipartisan motion to remove Justice Yashwant Varma, who is embroiled in a suspected corruption case, as the Opposition-sponsored notice for a similar motion in Rajya Sabha was not admitted. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said Friday that...
New Delhi: The Election Commission Friday appointed Rajya Sabha Secretary General P C Mody as the returning officer for the election to the office of the vice president. The election was necessitated after Jagdeep Dhankhar's surprise resignation as vice president Monday evening, citing health issues....
The Supreme Court on 28 July told the Election Commission of India (ECI) to adopt a voter verification approach based...
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In a landmark ruling that has come as a shot in the arm for the global climate movement, the International...
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“Joint-family and indissoluble marriage have been the basis of Hindu society. Laws that alter this basis will ultimately lead to...
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