Uttarakhand, 18/11: A team from the Prime Minister’s Office reached the site of a tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi on Saturday morning. Visuals showed PMO Deputy Secretary Mangesh Ghildiyal at the site. Attempts to rescue 40 labourers who were trapped after the collapse of a portion of an under-construction tunnel on the Yamunotri National Highway…
Bhopal, 17/11: Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Friday accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of distributing money and liquor to voters on the eve of the state assembly elections. Polling for the 230-member state assembly is underway on Friday. Talking to reporters at the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) office here, Nath claimed,…
New Delhi,17/11: The message from the second ‘Voice of Global South Summit’ is that the Global South wants its autonomy and is ready to take big responsibilities in world affairs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. He made the remarks at the concluding session of the second virtual summit of the developing countries that…
Chattisgarh, 17/11: An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawan was killed in a blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district amid second-phase polling for Assembly elections on Friday.
New Delhi, 17/11: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) sought 15 more days from a court here on Friday to submit its report of a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex. According to the Centre’s counsel, Amit Srivastava, the ASI has moved an application in the court of Varanasi District Judge A K Vishvesh,…
Ranchi, 17/11: Irate residents on Friday blocked NH-75 and other roads after idols in five temples of a village were vandalised in Jharkhand’s Ranchi district, police said. Police said unidentified men vandalised the temples at Mudma village, around 30km from Ranchi, on Thursday night. According to the villagers, idols of Shiva, Hanuman and a goddess…
Bangalore, 17/11: Former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Friday that he has paid a fine of Rs 68,526 for drawing electricity from an illegal connection to illuminate his JP Nagar residence here during Deepavali, but termed it as “unjust and excessive” . However, the JD(S) state unit president protested the way the…
Uttarakhand, 17/11: Working overnight with a powerful machine, rescue workers had by Friday morning drilled up to 21 metres through the rubble in Silkyara tunnel, inching closer to the 40 labourers trapped there for five days. The workers need to drill up to 60 metres to insert 800 mm and 900 mm diameter pipes –…
New Delhi, 17/11: New challenges are emerging from the incidents in West Asia and it is time for the countries of the Global South to talk in one voice for greater global good, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday amid the Hamas-Israel conflict. In his address at the second edition of the India-hosted virtual…
Mumbai, 17/11: In a major reversal, Apple Inc. plans to adopt a technological standard next year that will allow text messaging to operate more smoothly between iPhones and Android devices. The company had pushed back on the standard — known as RCS — for more than a year, even as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and others…
