Shimla: The devastating monsoon in Himachal Pradesh has claimed 370 lives since June 20, including 205 deaths in rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, drowning, lightning strikes, and other weather-triggered accidents, and 165 fatalities in road accidents, the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) said on Tuesday.According to the SDMA’s cumulative loss report, the state has…
Berhampur: At least 50 kg of plastic was removed from the stomach of a cow in Berhampur of Odisha on Tuesday. Veterinarians removed the large amount of polythene at the Veterinary hospital in Berhmapur. The plastic was removed after a 4-hour long surgery.As per reports, the cow collapsed on the Badasahi-Hilapatana road 3 days ago after…
Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has resigned amid violent protests in Kathmandu the capital city of Nepal over the alleged corruption.Protesters in Nepal took to the streets again on Tuesday morning, a day after the country lifted a social media ban that led to clashes between protesters and police in which at least 19…
Koraput: Amid tall claims of boosting the State healthcare infrastructure in remote areas, a critically hurt patient was treated under cell phone light by a peon in the absence of a doctor at a government hospital in Odisha’s Koraput district. The incident, which took place at Lamataput Community health Centre in Mahakuma late on Monday night, has sparked…
Bhubaneswar: In a major political development, former Rajya Sabha MP and senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader N Bhaskar Rao today resigned from the party. Along with him, former minister Lal Bihari Himirika and several local leaders and workers of Rayagada district also quit the party’s primary membership.Rao has announced the formation of a new…
Bengaluru, 9/9: Karnataka’s IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge has made a fresh proposal to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on having the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) scrutinised under a court-monitored audit through an ‘ethical hackathon’ hosted by Karnataka. Priyank’s proposal comes just days after the Congress government decided to bring back ballot papers for…
Patna, 9/9: The two-week-long ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ concluded on September 1 with the I.N.D.I.A. bloc all set to enter another phase of campaigning ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. The RJD and its allies now plan to reach out to districts that the ‘yatra’ led by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav could not cover. RJD…
Kathmandu, 9/9: Nepal has lifted a social media ban following protests that resulted in the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday. Cabinet spokesman and Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung said the government had rolled back the social media ban imposed last week.
Jerusalem,9/8: Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as “a terrorist attack,” one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years. Footage from a dashboard camera at the scene showed people fleeing from the vicinity of…
Kathmandu, 8/9: At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured on Monday as violent protests by youths rocked the Nepalese capital and certain other areas over the government’s decision to ban social media sites, prompting authorities to deploy the armed forces in Kathmandu. Thousands of youths, including school students, under the banner of Gen…
