Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday yet again attacked the Congress amid protests over the death of a contractor this week that has prompted the state minister, KS Eshwarappa, to announce that he would step down. The 73-year-old minister on Thursday said he would quit amid the growing opposition pressure. As the Congress held […]
Tremors were felt in Arunachal Pradesh after an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck China’s Qinghai on Friday morning. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake occurred at 1176 km north of Pangin in Arunachal Pradesh. The NCS on its Twitter handle wrote, “Earthquake of Magnitude:5.3, Occurred on 15-04-2022, 06:56:19 IST, Lat: 38.62 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the ‘Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya’ (prime ministers’ museum), which is a tribute to every prime minister since Independence, irrespective of their ideology or tenure. Being inaugurated during the celebration of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the museum tells the story of India after independence through the lives and contributions of its […]
Six persons died in a fire accident in a chemical factory located in Akkireddygudem in the district and 12 others sustained burns, police said on Thursday.According to Rahul Dev Sharma, Superintendent of Police, Eluru, the injured are being treated in a Government Hospital in Vijayawada. He said it is suspected the fire broke out late […]
The trials of the bullet train will be conducted at a speed of 350 kilometres per hour, comparable to the take-off speed of airplanes, officials said on Wednesday.The first such trial will be held between Bilimora and Surat in Gujarat in 2026, followed by other sections, they said. The operational speed of the trains will […]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya, party’s Rajasthan chief Satish Poonia and others were allegedly stopped from visiting communal violence-hit Karauli on Wednesday. The BJP leaders were stopped at the Dausa-Karauli border but kept demanding that they be allowed to meet victims of the April 2 violence that broke out after a bike rally […]
The New York Police Department has identified Frank James as a ‘person of interest’ in the Brooklyn subway attack that injured more than 20 people on Tuesday when chaos unfolded in the morning rush-hour, officials said. “More than 20 people were left injured – ten were reportedly hit directly by the gunfire while 13 more […]
A joint team of the CBI and the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation vigilance cell conducted searches at two EPFO offices in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city following some complaints of irregularities against EPFO employees, officials said on Wednesday.The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) anti-corruption branch in Nagpur and the EPFO’s vigilance team from Mumbai started the searches […]
Five people were shot on Tuesday morning at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, law enforcement sources said. Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighbourhood found multiple people shot and undetonated devices, a New York City Fire Department spokesperson said.According to multiple law enforcement […]
Students will now be able to pursue two full-time degree programmes in physical mode simultaneously either at the same university or from different universities, UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar announced on Tuesday. “As announced in the new National Education Policy (NEP) and in order to allow students to acquire multiple skills, UGC is coming up with […]