Gurugram: At least nine people were burnt alive and 15 injured when a moving bus caught fire near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The incident occurred around 2 am on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway. The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who...

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya has been fined Rs 30 lakh and suspended from his team's opening match of the next edition of IPL for slow over-rate offence for the third time in the competition. With Mumbai Indians' IPL 2024 campaign ending on Friday after their final league game against Lucknow Super Giants, Pandya's suspension will...

Tel Aviv: Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in a statement Saturday, said that it killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Friday night in an air strike. The deceased is identified as Aslam Hamaisa, a commander of the Jenin brigade of PIJ. IDF said that in a joint operation with the Shin Bet, they located the Islamic Jihad...

New Delhi: Missing actor Gurucharan Singh, who played Roshan Singh Sodhi's character in TV serial 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah', returned home Friday after 24 days, officials said. According to a police officer, Singh had gone for a spiritual journey during which he visited several Gurudwaras and religious places in Punjab. He returned home Friday early morning,...

Rayagada: Residents in this district stare at a major water crisis shortly with the sharp decline in groundwater level, sources said Friday. The establishment of many industries and a rise in population are two of the main reasons for the alarming decrease in groundwater level, they pointed out. Rampant digging up of bore wells is another reason...

Koraput: Koraput coffee which has carved a niche for itself on the world map has been hit hard by climate change, a report said. It seems that global warming has affected the coffee plants badly as the output has decreased considerably. This has prompted the officials of the Koraput Coffee Board to replace plants that are 20...

Rourkela: Four people were killed and seven others suffered serious injuries Friday when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned near Bonai. All the passengers of the car were coming here to attend the last rites of Swapan Kumar Mohanty, an RSP employee who breathed his last Thursday after a prolonged battle with cancer. The car was...

Baripada: A leopard created a stir as it strayed into this town Friday morning. The animal was spotted in Bhanjpur locality of this town in Mayurbhanj district. After locals informed the Forest Department and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), a team was promptly dispatched to conduct a rescue operation. Wild animals are often sighted in the area...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police Friday arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of burglary under Nandankanan police limits here May 3. The accused Saman Sabar alias Suman, who hails from Keonjhar, was residing in VSS Nagar area here, ACP (Zone VI) Ramesh Chandra Bishoi said. Bishoi said Suman burgled cash and other valuables from the house of Babuli...

Keonjhar: Three days after the mutilated body of an Assistant Block Development Officer (ABDO) was found close to the railway tracks near Harichandanpur railway station in Keonjhar district Monday, the body of a Junior Engineer (JE) was recovered from the farmlands near Banachakulia village, under Ghatagaon police station limits of the district, late Thursday. Police said the...