KULLU: A 25-year-old tourist from Gujarat died when his tandem paraglider crashed during take-off from an unapproved site near Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district Sunday evening. The tandem pilot was gravely injured in the accident near Banghotu, located above the popular Indrunag paragliding site.Satish, of Ahmedabad, had come to Dharamshala with his cousin and…
File photo: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: As Parliament’s monsoon session approaches, the stage seems to be getting set for a BJP-Congress duel over “foreign interference”, with BJP MP Nishikant Dubey circulating documents about Jawaharlal Nehru govt’s decision to let US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) install “two nuclear-powered devices” high in…
BALASORE/BHUBANESWAR: Odisha police on Monday arrested the suspended principal of a government-run college in Balasore after a 20-year-old student set herself ablaze Saturday over alleged administrative neglect in addressing her complaints of sexual harassment against a senior faculty member.The student is battling 90% burns at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. Doctors said her condition is critical and unchanged…
Eggs hurled at Toronto rath yatra, India lodges protest BHUBANESWAR: Centre on Monday lodged a strong protest with the Canadian government regarding alleged disrespect to Lord Jagannath’s rath yatra in Toronto. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) intervened following reports that eggs were thrown at a chariot during the rath yatra in Toronto on Sunday.MEA…
File photo: Nimisha Priya NEW DELHI: Running against time to save the life of a nurse from Kerala, Nimisha Priya, whose death sentence is to be executed on July 16 in Yemen, government on Monday told Supreme Court that it was making all efforts to reach out to her but cannot do much because of…
File photo: Air India CEO Campbell Wilson NEW DELHI: A preliminary probe into the June 12 AI-171 crash finds no “mechanical or maintenance issues” with the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft and its engines, and also no fault with fuel quality and “medical status” of the pilots, according to the airline’s CEO Campbell Wilson.In his first…
File photo: Footwears lie on the ground outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium following the stampede (Picture credit: PTI) BENGALURU: Stating that no national security or public interest is involved in keeping documents in a sealed cover, Karnataka high court mandated the disclosure of the June 12 status report on the June 4 M Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede,…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India on Monday directed its airlines using certain Boeing aircraft, like the B737s and B787 Dreamliners, to check fuel control switch locking mechanisms on them by July 21.The regulators and airlines of some other countries, like South Korea and the UAE, are also doing the same. The US Federal Aviation Administration had in…
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla with his teammates of Axiom-4 and ISS just before undocking on Monday NEW DELHI: With Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his other three spacemates of Axiom-4 mission starting their return journey to Earth after their 18-day stay at International Space Station, space minister Jitendra Singh on Monday expressed delight over the…
NEW DELHI: SpiceJet handed over two unruly passengers from a Mumbai-bound flight at Delhi airport on Monday. The two women started quarrelling almost as soon as the aircraft started taxiing and even tried to approach the cockpit, say sources. Co-passengers and cabin crew requested them to return to their seats and stop the fight so…