New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, has called for a deeper understanding of the Emergency imposed between June 25, 1975, and March 21, 1977. Writing in Malayalam daily Deepika, Tharoor said the Emergency should not merely be remembered as a grim episode in Indian history but as…
Los Angeles: An industrial tunnel collapsed late Wednesday in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles, trapping approximately 15 workers inside, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD). The incident has prompted a major emergency response operation. As of the latest updates, no injuries have been confirmed. The situation remains fluid as rescue teams work…
New Delhi: A relatively mild earthquake of magnitude 4.4 jolted Delhi and nearby areas on Thursday morning. The earthquake originated around Jhajjar in Haryana and was felt across the National Capital Region. The National Centre of Seismology said the earthquake was shallow and originated about 10 km below the earth’s surface. Shallow earthquakes have a…
New Delhi: Political parties “hijacked” the general strike called by trade unions by announcing a “bandh” over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, a senior trade union functionary said on Wednesday. The general strike was observed against the new Labour Codes and other issues on Wednesday, while Bihar witnessed a…
New Delhi: The Ministry of Education is organising a two-day Vice Chancellors Conference of Central Universities in Gujarat’s Kevadia from July 10 and will be inaugurated by its ministerDharmendra Pradhan, officials said on Wednesday. The conference, as part of marking the five years of implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, will bring together…
New Delhi: China’s mega dam being built near the Arunachal Pradesh border will be a ticking “water bomb”, an existential threat and a bigger issue than anything else apart from the military threat, the state’s Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said. In an interview to PTI Videos on Tuesday, Khandu said the world’s largest dam…
Churu: A Jaguar trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Bhanoda village in Rajasthan’s Churu district on Wednesday afternoon, killing both pilots onboard. The crash occurred around 12:40 pm during a routine training mission. The aircraft went down in an agricultural field, and no damage to civilian property has been reported. Rajaldesar…
Vadodara: Nine persons were killed and five others rescued after several vehicles fell into a river when the portion of a four-decade-old bridge collapsed in Gujarat’s Vadodara district on Wednesday morning, officials said. Five to six vehicles fell into the Mahisagar river after a slab of the Gambhira bridge, located on the river which connects…
Patna/Arwal/Jehnabad/Darbhaga (Bihar): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday led a Mahagathbandhan march to the Election Commission’s office in Patna to protest the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls before the Bihar assembly polls. The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, who arrived in the state capital in the morning, was accompanied by…
Meerut (UP): Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said farmers in India are now moving towards mobile-based crop monitoring and gaining access to global markets with the help of technology. He said the government aims to transform farmers not just into producers but into entrepreneurs. Speaking at the inauguration of the Centre for Agricultural…
