BHOPAL: A disaster was averted when an express train suddenly lurched and tilted in MPs Morena district as soil under a large stretch of tracks gave way on Saturday morning.Thankfully, there was just enough to stop the train from toppling over. Though there were many skipped heartbeats on the Chhattisgarh Express (Amritsar to Bilaspur), no…
GURGAON: Two employees of a private bank died after getting trapped inside their SUV when they allegedly ignored warnings by police and entered a flooded underpass in Old Faridabad late Friday night.Viraj (26), a cashier with HDFC Bank in Sector 31 of Gurgaon, had offered to drop his manager, Punyashreya Sharma (45), at his Faridabad…
AGRA: Exactly four years after the murder and alleged sexual assault of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras, on Sept 14, 2020, the family has left the ashes of the victim unimmersed. They told TOI that they are still waiting for justice. They added that they continue to live in “jail-like conditions”, with restrictions on…
NAGPUR: The missing CCTV footage at the bar and restaurant in Nagpur’s upscale Dharampeth, where BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule’s son Sanket dined with friends on Sunday night before his luxury car was involved in a hit-and-run, has raised doubts whether evidence was deliberately destroyed to shield him. Maintaining CCTV footage is mandatory, as per…
JAIPUR: This monsoon has been exceedingly kind to the desert state of Rajasthan as it received 668mm of average rain till Saturday to surpass the previous record of 664mm set from June 1 to Sept 15 in 1975.“Rajasthan received the highest rainfall in 49 years,” Jaipur Met director Radhey Sharma said, explaining that from 1975…
KORAPUT: Come hell or high water, Anant Kumar Darli and Sujit Kumar Pujari will not stop in the path of duty, even if it means swimming through. In an extraordinary display of dedication, govt doctor Darli and his assistant Pujari swam across a flooded Odisha river in deluge-hit Malkangiri district Friday to reach patients suffering…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Hindi must be made acceptable, flexible and conversational, and stressed the need to promote it by strengthening all Indian regional languages and establishing their mutual congruence.Shah, while addressing the official language‘s diamond jubilee celebrations and the 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan here coinciding with Hindi Diwas,…
In the first half of 2024 (Jan – June), Canada approved 55,500 post-secondary study permits for Indian students, constituting 49% of the nation’s incoming international post-secondary students. This proportion remained consistent with the full-year 2023 figures and only marginally lower than the first half of 2023 (51%). With an impressive study permit approval rate of…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday stressed the need for the country’s security and law enforcement agencies to identify and tackle emerging national security challenges such as narcotics, rogue drones and online frauds “before they turn into major challenges”.In his concluding remarks at the two-day national security strategies conference – attended by the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the two rallies he addressed in poll-bound Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana on Saturday, launched a blistering attack on Congress as he referred to recent incidents, including the alleged assault of an Indian journalist by a member of Rahul Gandhi‘s team during his US visit. He also slammed…
