NEW DELHI: Eyewitnesses at the New Delhi Railway Station recounted the horrific situations that led to the deadly stampede killing at least 18 and injuring several on Saturday night. The incident occurred when a large crowd gathered at platforms 14 and 15, awaiting trains bound for Prayagraj, where the Maha Kumbh is ongoing. Talking about…
NEW DELHI: At least 18 people died, including 14 women and three children and over a dozen sustained injuries in a stampede that occurred on Saturday night at the New Delhi Railway station. The incident occurred after a massive surge in passengers heading to Maha Kumbh and those waiting for the trains that had got…
ROHTAK: Two undergraduate students of Ashoka University were found dead between late Friday and early Saturday on the campus in Haryana‘s Sonipat. The bodies of a 20-year-old undergraduate student from Telangana and another undergraduate student, 19, from Bengaluru were found near the hostel and the main gate of the institute, respectively. The causes of the…
PANAJI/BELAGAVI: Former Goa MLA Lavoo Mamledar (68) died in Karnataka’s Belagavi on Saturday after being assaulted by an autorickshaw driver in an instance of road rage. The accused, Amirsuhil Shakilsab Sanadi (26), was arrested and sent to jail.Mamledar’s car brushed against an autorickshaw in Khade Bazaar area, leading to a heated argument between him and…
AMRITSAR/JALANDHAR: Leader of opposition in the Punjab assembly Partap Singh Bajwa criticised Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann and the state’s AAP-led govt even as a US aircraft carrying Indian deportees was to land in Amritsar on Saturday, accusing Mann of failing to curb the human trafficking of Punjabis in the last three yearsThe Congress politician…
MEERUT: A court in UP’s Bulandshahr has pulled up police for failing to file a chargesheet in a 26-year-old murder case despite arresting the accused, recovering the alleged murder weapon and even filing a separate chargesheet against him in an arms Act case.The lapse, which allowed the accused to remain a free man for over…
NEW DELHI: With the threat from hostile drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in both conventional and irregular warfare continuing to expand exponentially, armed forces are stepping up induction of a wide array of anti-drone systems but underline the urgent need for more advanced ones. Army this week floated the tender for procurement of nine…
AMRITSAR: An American aircraft carrying 116 illegal Indian immigrants deported from the US was delayed and arrived at Amritsar’s international airport a little past 11.30pm Saturday, the second such flight after a US military C-17 plane had brought back 104 deportees to the same airport on February 5.At a press conference earlier Saturday, Punjab chief…
NEW DELHI: “We didn’t stop teaching arithmetic just because we got calculators. We need to teach students what the machines can’t do and how to use machines (more efficiently).” That’s how the world’s leading universities are coping with AI, according to Michael Spence, University College London (UCL) president & provost. Speaking at the ET Now…
NEW DELHI: Having heralded one of the fastest rollouts of 5G telephony in the world, India will now take the lead in the development of next-gen 6G technology, with a target of contributing 10% to worldwide patents, said communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia here on Saturday.Speaking at the ET Now Global Business Summit, Scindia said the…
