NEW DELHI: BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri on Tuesday accused Delhi chief minister Atishi of “shedding crocodile tears” a day after Atishi broke down during a press conference over his recent remarks on her father.“Naturally, people of Delhi want to get rid of ‘AAP-da’ as soon as possible… AAP is used to playing the victim card when…
NEW DELHI: A video showing two snow leopards playing in the Zanskar valley of Ladakh has gone viral. The rare sight became a new year delight for social media users as well as wildlife enthusiasts. The 28-second clip shows the animals running and jumping across the snowy landscape. The video was initially shared by tour…
NEW DELHI: An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck 93 km northeast of Lobuche, Nepal, at 6.35 am IST on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. Tremors were also felt across Bihar and several parts of North India. A day earlier, on Monday, an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 hit Afghanistan at 12.47 pm IST, the…
NEW DELHI: After Tamil Nadu police’s withdrawal of an FIR against lottery king Santiago Martin in an alleged corruption case, now Enforcement Directorate has hit a new hurdle with Kolkata police filing a closure report in two FIRs against Martin and his company citing “want of evidence”.In the absence of a predicate offence (police FIR…
GUWAHATI: Around 15 labourers were feared trapped inside a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district after a sudden gush of water flooded the site Monday morning.The accident occurred around 7 am at Assam Coal Quarry, situated in Umrangso’s 3 Kilo area in the district. According to locals, about 10-15 workers were inside the quarry…
MUMBAI: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing manipulation of documents for plots in ecologically sensitive Coastal Regulation Zones (CRZ) and no development zones (NDZ) in Mumbai has found 63 more forged records. With this, the total number of forged land record maps have touched 165.The tampering, which facilitated unauthorised construction on hundreds of properties along…
MUMBAI: Actor Salman Khan was the primary target of the gang that shot NCP politician Baba Siddique on October 12, said the police chargesheet submitted on Monday.The chargesheet claimed that Siddique’s murder was executed as part of a fallback plan after an initial attempt to eliminate Khan failed because of the security cover around the…
CHENNAI: In yet another faceoff between the M K Stalin govt and Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan, governor R N Ravi Monday walked out of the state assembly within three minutes of entering the House, and without reading the customary address, in protest of the national anthem not being played at the start of the first…
RAIPUR: The IED triggered Monday, killing eight constables and a driver, was planted long ago, authorities said, with grass growing on the wires connected to it.“It was probably a command IED, one that is triggered manually by Maoists with a switch wired to the bomb,” Dantewada DIG Kamlochan Kashyap said. The blast was triggered near…
RAIPUR: “The DRG men were returning to neighbouring Dantewada district in a Scorpio when the IED blast was triggered near Ambeli-Karkeli villages,” Bastar range IG P Sundarraj said. The impact was such that a chunk of the road hit the windscreen of the following vehicle. Another IED attack. Another homecoming team blown apart. And the…
