Aizawl: At least 22 people, including 13 in a collapsed stone quarry, were killed in Mizoram Tuesday due to landslides and incessant rain in the aftermath of cyclone 'Remal', officials said. In a massive landslide, at least 13 people, including two minors, were killed and eight others were missing as a stone quarry collapsed in Aizawl district,...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid who is accused in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots. Khalid has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai rejected the bail plea. PTI

Singapore: World No. 1 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty crashed out of the Singapore Open after suffering a shock defeat against Denmark's world number 34 Daniel Lundgaard and Mads Vestergaard in the opening round of men's doubles competition here Tuesday. One of the favourites to win the gold medal at Paris Olympics, Satwik and Chirag, who had...

Bhubaneswar: The BJP Tuesday cited a video of BJD leader Kartik Pandian putting Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's trembling left hand behind the lectern during a campaign speech to reiterate its allegation that the former IAS officer was "controlling" the BJD president. The BJP has been pushing this narrative during the ongoing polls that the bureaucrat-turned-politician of...

Deir al-Balah: Israeli strikes on Rafah have killed at least 16 Palestinians, first responders said Tuesday, as residents reported an escalation of fighting in the southern Gaza city. An Israeli incursion launched in early May has caused nearly 1 million to flee from Rafah, most of whom have already been displaced in the war between Israel and...

New Delhi: A court in New Delhi Tuesday granted three days to Delhi Police for custodial interrogation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar, who has been accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal. Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at the chief minister's official residence May 13. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal sent Kumar to police...

Barasat (West Bengal): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday flayed the TMC government in West Bengal for "snatching the rights of OBC youths" to facilitate its appeasement politics and “vote jihad”. Addressing an election rally in Barasat, Modi, without naming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, criticised her for questioning the judges of the Calcutta High Court and...

Hyderabad: Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao allegedly wanted to use the "BRS MLAs" poaching case to force BJP into a compromise to get rid of the ED case against his daughter and MLC K Kavitha, according to the confession statement of a former police official arrested in connection with the phone-tapping case. As per former...

Patna: Bihar Police Tuesday claimed to have arrested the prime accused in the murder of a final year undergraduate student of BN College on the law college campus of Patna University. The arrested accused has been identified as Chandan Kumar, a final-year student of Patna college and a resident of Bihta, Patna. Police claimed, that Kumar, who...

Bhadrak: The Odisha Police Tuesday arrested a person for allegedly duping people of Rs 50 crore on the pretext of high returns from investment in various schemes of a firm. Sleuths of the Economic Offences Wing apprehended the managing director of the firm, which defrauded around 2,000 investors, from Chandbali in Bhadrak district. The accused has been...