A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the […]
A layer of pungent haze lingered over Delhi on Saturday morning as the city’s air quality neared the “severe” zone amid adverse meteorological conditions — low temperatures and calm winds — and an increase in incidents of stubble burning in Punjab.The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi stood at 396 at 10 am, worsening […]
Law and order is states’ responsibility but these are linked to the unity and integrity of the nation too, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. Addressing the Chintan Shivir of home ministers of states via video conferencing, PM Modi said that the ongoing brain-storming session at Surajkund in Haryana is an “excellent example of […]
Billionaire Elon Musk has completed his USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter and fired the social media company’s four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde.The New York Times said that Musk, the world’s richest man, closed the deal to buy Twitter. Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor and inaugurated three other projects here worth a combined Rs 6,629 crore.Shah inaugurated the projects virtually from an event at the Parade Ground in Sector 12. He laid the foundation stone of the Rs 5,618-crore Haryana Orbital Rail […]
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Ghazipur landfill site on Thursday and said the upcoming MCD polls would be fought on the garbage issue as he promised to clean Delhi in five years if his AAP won the civic body election.Scores of BJP supporters staged a protest and raised slogans against Kejriwal. In turn, Aam […]
A Delhi-bound Akasa Air plane was hit by a bird during the climb-out on Thursday morning, according to India’s aviation regulator. The Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, operated by the recently launched budget airline Akasa Air, suffered a radome damage due to the bird hit at 1900 feet, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said. […]
In a historic move, BCCI on Thursday announced equal pay for all centrally contracted men and women Team India cricketers. BCCI secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter to announce the development. “I’m pleased to announce BCCI’s first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing a pay equity policy for our contracted women cricketers. The match […]
A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought printing of images of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi on currency notes, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday asked why not BR Ambedkar’s photo on a new series of notes.The AAP national convener’s demand drew sharp reactions from the Congress with its Punjab unit chief Amarinder […]
India is among the top eight countries which is expected to witness salary hike in 2023, this amid soaring inflation. The Asian countries including China, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia are among the top 10 nations which are expected to witness real salaries hike, Bloomberg quoted ECA’s Salary Trends Survey report. India’s neighbours Pakistan and Sri […]