- Middle East
Death toll exceeds 48,000 in Turkey’s deadly quakes
Ankara: The death toll from two earthquakes that hit Turkey on February 6 has risen to 48,448, the Turkish Interior Minister said. “The number of foreign nationals among the killed is 6,660.…
- India
Only clean-shaven grooms can exchange vows: Raj community’s peculiar decision
Jaipur: In what could be ascribed as a strange decision, a local committee organising mass marriage ceremonies in Rajasthan has taken a collective decision of allowing only clean-shaven grooms while those with…
- India
Another pee-gate incident, this time on train by TTE in UP
Lucknow: Yet another pee-gate scandal took place — this time aboard the Akal Takht Express between Amritsar and Kolkata. A drunk TTE, Munna Kumar of Bihar, deployed on the train allegedly urinated…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru: Woman’s body dumped in drum, cops suspect serial killer gang
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Police are on high alert following the recovery of the body of a woman in a plastic drum near the Byappanahalli railway station here. Police sources said that they…
- India
Bhopal gas tragedy: SC dismisses Centre’s plea seeking added compensation
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a curative petition filed by the Centre demanding an additional compensation of Rs 7,400 crore from the successor firms of Union Carbide…
- Entertainment
Oscar winner Guneet Monga’s teacher recalls her as ‘highly creative’
Lucknow: Oscar winner Guneet Monga has a Lucknow connection. Prof Govind Pandey, the Dean of the department of mass communication and journalism of the School of Media and Communication at Dr Babasaheb…
- India
Tauqeer Raza Khan booked for objectionable remarks
Moradabad: Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad have booked Ittehad-e-Millat Council president Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan for allegedly making inflammatory remarks, including an objectionable comment against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Senior Superintendent of…
- India
Cong, BRS, AAP move suspension of business notice in RS on Hindenburg-Adani row
New Delhi: Members of Congress, Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and AAP on Tuesday moved suspension of business notice in the Rajya Sabha under rule 267 demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: Ambulance carrying patient catches fire in Prakasam district
Amaravati: An ambulance carrying a patient caught fire injuring a person and destroying tobacco worth Rs 40 lakh. The incident occurred in Andhra Pradeh’s Prakasam district late on Monday. The 108 ambulance…
- Business
Scientists agree that money can buy happiness
New York: People get happy as they earn more, according to a new study which overturns the dominant thinking that money cannot buy happiness. The study published in Proceedings of the National…
- India
Prashant Kishor thanks Stalin for arresting TN leader threatening migrant workers
Patna: Bihar-based political strategist Prashant Kishor (PK) on Monday thanked Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for arresting Tamil leader Senthamijhan Shiman, who allegedly gave a provocative speech against Bihari labourers in…
- India
‘1,171 flights cancelled in 2022 due to technical reasons’
New Delhi: A total of 1,171 flights were cancelled during the year 2022 due to technical reasons, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Monday. The number of flights cancelled in 2021 and…
- India
Asia’s first lady loco pilot commands Solapur-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express
Mumbai: Asia’s first woman loco pilot Surekha Yadav piloted the new Vande Bharat Express from Solapur to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in Mumbai on Monday. On arrival, Yadav was felicitated at…
- Politics
Opposition alliance: Mamata, Akhilesh likely to meet in Kolkata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav are likely to meet in Kolkata on Friday to discuss opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool…
- India
MP Assembly passes ‘censure motion’ against BBC documentary on Modi
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a ‘censure motion’ against a BBC documentary for allegedly showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bad light over the 2002 Gujarat riots.…
