Kathmandu, 15/1: Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday condoled the loss of lives in a plane crash in Nepal and said it was “extremely unfortunate. A Nepalese passenger plane with 72 people onboard, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the Pokhara airport on Sunday, killing at least 32 people….
New Delhi, 15/1: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath as a national disaster. According to the cause list of January 16 uploaded on the apex court website, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S…
Kathmandu, 15/1: At least 16 people were killed on Sunday after an aircraft crashed in western Nepal’s Pokhara, an army spokesman said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site. “We expect to recover more bodies,” Krishna Bhandari told Reuters. “The plane has broken into pieces,” he added. “There were…
Mumbai, 15/1: S S Rajamouli, who is basking in the attention that his magnum opus RRR is getting after the Golden Globe win of Naatu Naatu, has set the record straight for American journalists. He has made it clear to them that the film is not a Bollywood movie, but “a Telugu film that…
Mumbai, 15/1: Mumbai is set to get two more Metro lines, which will bring in a major change in commuting in the far Western suburbs and ensure connectivity to Eastern suburbs. The two elevated corridors run along both sides of the Western Express Highway connecting Dahisar to Andheri. Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
New Delhi, 14/1: The CBI on Saturday conducted “searches” at the office of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with alleged irregularities in excise policy, Delhi government sources said. Taking to Twitter, Sisodia claimed the agency did not find anything against him during previous raids and this time too it will be…
Badamba, 14/1: In a shocking piece of news, several persons sustained critical injuries in a stampede like situation on the Badamba-Gopinathpur T-bridge over river Mahanadi . According to reports more than 12 person injured and 1 person is killed in this stamped. Devotees in large number congregated at the shrine during the Makar Mela. On…
Kyiv, 14/1: A Russian missile attack hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv on Saturday morning and explosions rang out in the Dniprovskiy district of the Ukrainian capital, a senior presidential official and other officials said. Reuters journalists heard a series of explosions in Kyiv before an air raid siren sounded in Kyiv. Officials told…
Chandigarh, 14/1: The Congress on Saturday suspended its Bharat Jodo Yatra, which was in Punjab, for a day as a mark of respect for party MP Santokh Singh Choudhary who died following a heart attack during the march. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also postponed his scheduled press conference at Jalandhar on January 15, and…
New Delhi, 14/1: The Lok Sabha Secretariat has issued notification disqualifying Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal, who was recently convicted in an attempt to murder case by a court in the union territory. As per the notification issued on Friday, Faizal stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from January 11, the date of his…
