Nine people died as a Shiva temple in Shimla collapsed on Monday following heavy rain, officials said.The temple was located in Summer Hill. At the time of the disaster, 25 to 30 people were present in the temple. Five people have been rescued, a police official told IANS. Confirming the death toll, Chief Minister Sukhvinder […]
– Rotary Club Chandigarh gifts 200 apheresis kits for use of economically challenged Rotary Club of Chandigarh 200 single-user apheresis kits to the Rotary and Blood Bank Society Resource Centre in Sector 37, here today. Past Rotary International President Rajendra K. Saboo handed over the kits used for extracting platelets from blood, to the Chairman of […]
Recalling the Quit India movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India is now speaking in one voice against corruption, dynasty and appeasement. Modi’s apparent swipe at the Opposition came as the ruling BJP organises events across the country on Wednesday on these lines. “Tributes to the greats who took […]
Ahead of the crucial no-confidence motion against the government on Tuesday brought by the Opposition parties on the Manipur issue, the Congress got a shot in the arm with the Lok Sabha secretariat on Monday restoring Rahul Gandhi’s membership of the House.Gandhi, who had earlier visited Manipur, is expected to open the debate when the […]
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up on Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago. Controllers sent the wrong command to the 46-year-old spacecraft and tilted its antenna away from […]
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Saturday resumed its scientific survey work at the Gyanvapi mosque here to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple.Government counsel Rajesh Mishra, who accompanied the ASI survey team during the day-long exercise a day before, on Saturday said the team […]
The Supreme Court in Australia’s Queensland state has overturned a law banning Sikh religious dagger (kirpan) on school grounds calling it “unconstitutional”.The ruling by the state’s highest court came after Kamaljit Kaur Athwal took the state government to court last year, claiming that the ban discriminated against the kirpan — one of five religious symbols […]
Three Army personnel were killed in an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Friday, officials said.Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the higher reaches of the Halan forest area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir following inputs about the presence of militants there, a police official said. He said the […]
Singapore hanged a third prisoner in two weeks on Thursday for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to halt capital punishment for drug-related crimes.The Central Narcotics Bureau said Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff, a 39-year-old Singaporean, was executed at Singapore’s Changi Prison after being accorded due process under the law. He was sentenced to death […]