KEONJHAR: Tension prevailed in Champua PS area of Odisha’s Keonjhar district after vandals destroyed a nearly 200-year-old place of worship in Jharkhand‘s Jayantigarh village Friday evening, reports Naresh Chandra Pattanayak. Jayantigarh is located on the banks of Baitarani river which borders Odisha and Jharkhand. The incident triggered road blockades and market closures in both the…
KOCHI: An additional district and sessions court in Kerala’s Thalassery Saturday acquitted 13 members of National Development Front – the previous avatar of the banned Popular Front of India – and found only one of the 14 accused guilty, in connection with the murder of RSS functionary T Ashwini Kumar in Kannur district almost two…
The Diwali releases saw strong box office performance over the holiday period, with both Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 and Singham Again reporting significant earnings. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 is trending positively and is expected to achieve similar or slightly higher figures than Friday. Singham Again may see a slight dip or maintain similar numbers by the end…
Aditya Sharma’s X-ray shows some of the 65 items found in his stomach AGRA: A 14-year-old boy from Hathras in UP died hours after doctors at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital — in a complex and gruelling surgery that lasted almost five hours — removed about 65 objects, including batteries, chains, razor blade fragments and screws, from…
NAGPUR: Jagdish Uikey, a 35-year-old resident of Maoist-affected Gondia district in Maharashtra, was taken into custody by Nagpur police on charges of sending 354 hoax emails targeting Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), top govt officials, flights and trains across India. Uikey had emailed PMO and other officials nearly 100 times since January, requesting endorsement for his…
NEW DELHI: After slashing the power supply to Bangladesh over non-payment of dues, Adani Power has set a deadline of Nov 7 to switch off the flow of electricity if there is no clarity on settlement of the outstanding amount that adds up to almost $850 million (around Rs 7,200 crore). Adani had set a…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau NEW DELHI: In its response to Canada’s allegation that Union home minister Amit Shah authorised attacks on Sikhs in Canada, Indian govt said on Saturday that it summoned the country’s diplomat to strongly protest the “absurd and baseless” references made by their minister before a parliamentary…
Hab-1 inflatable habitat at Leh is equipped with essentials like a hydroponics farm, kitchen and sanitation facilities for analog space NEW DELHI: The country’s first analog space mission has taken off at Leh in Ladakh, where space agency Isro will simulate life in an interplanetary habitat as India is planning to send a human to…
Encounter at Khanyar 1st gunfight in Srinagar’s urban area in 2 years (PTI Image) SRINAGAR: A high-ranking commander in Pakistan-backed terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was killed in Srinagar’s Khanyar locality, while two unidentified terrorists were shot dead in Anantnag’s Halkan Gali area after security forces detected suspicious movements.A soldier attached to a “road opening party”…
JAMMU: Three persons, including a woman and her 18-month-old son, were killed and as many were injured when the car they were travelling in rolled down deep into a gorge in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.The accident took place as the driver lost control over the vehicle near Chamelu Morh, when the car was…
