Tonk, ,26/5: At least a dozen people died and several were injured in separate incidents due to heavy rain and thunderstorm in Rajasthan’s Tonk district, officials said on Friday. Accompanied by gusty winds, heavy rain battered several places in the district on Thursday night, leading to the loss of human lives and damage…
Kashmir, 26/5: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday said the new Parliament building was a welcome addition and looks “pretty damn impressive”, amid criticism by the Opposition over its inauguration. Abdullah, whose party’s MPs have also announced to boycott the inaugural ceremony, said when he was the member of the Lok Sabha, many of…
MP, 26/5:Madhya Pradesh forest department squad tracking a cheetah that had sneaked out of Kuno National Park (KNP) was attacked in the early hours of Friday by some villagers who mistook them for dacoits, an official said. The incident took place at around 4 am near Burakheda village when the team was tracking…
New Delhi, 26/5: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is considering criminal and disciplinary penal action against two candidates for allegedly claiming selection in the civil services examination, the results of which were declared on Tuesday, according to an official statement. The case relates to Aysha Makrani (from Madhya Pradesh) and Tushar (from…
New Delhi, 26/5: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider a PIL for issuing a direction that the new Parliament building should be inaugurated on May 28 by the President of India and not by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and P S Narasimha allowed the…
Beijing, 26/5: China is likely to see its Covid-19 wave peaking at about 65 million infections a week toward the end of June, according to a senior health adviser, while authorities rush to bolster their vaccine arsenal to target the latest omicron variants. XBB has been fueling a resurgence in cases across China since late…
New Delhi, 26/5: Yoga guru Ramdev has called spirituality as the “soft power” of India, and said that yoga offers a solution to problems like stress and anxiety that people across the world are experiencing now. He appealed to the Goa tourism department to introduce yoga and meditation programmes at hotels for holidayers. …
