NEW DELHI: The student accused of raping a woman on the campus of a top management school in Kolkata has admitted to purchasing sleeping pills and mixing them into cold drinks and water offered to the woman before the alleged assault, according to a senior police officer, quoted by PTI.“The accused had admitted to having…
NEW DELHI: The preliminary report into the June 12 AI 171 crash has “provided both greater clarity and opened additional questions,” Air India MD & CEO Campbell Wilson said in a note to employees Monday. “The preliminary report found no mechanical or maintenance issues with the aircraft or engines, and that all mandatory maintenance tasks…
NEW DELHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) revealed the five-member panel involved in the probe of the Ahmedabad plane crash, which claimed 260 lives.The panel submitted its 15-page preliminary report on Saturday, which revealed that the fuel control switch transitioned from ‘Run’ to ‘Cutoff’ and a MAYDAY call was issued just two minutes after…
Nishikant Dubey (File Photo) NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday alleged that the Nehru-Gandhi family “surrendered” before the United States, as he slammed the Congress over a “missing American nuclear device” near the Nanda Devi mountain in the Himalayas, linking it to some recent natural disasters in India.In a post on X, Dubey…
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to visit the International Space Station (ISS), marked his final day aboard the orbiting laboratory with a symbolic photo op alongside fellow crew members ahead of his return to Earth. Pictured with astronauts representing the United States, Japan, India, Hungary and Poland, the image was captured using a time-lapse…
Tejashwi Yadav (Picture from X) NEW DELHI: Bihar’s voter list controversy is snowballing into a political slugfest, with BJP leader Sanjay Jaiswal on Sunday launching a fierce attack on RJD scion Tejashwi Yadav for dismissing reports of illegal foreign nationals being found in the state’s electoral rolls. The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by…
NEW DELHI: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), is set to return to Earth on Tuesday, July 15, marking the end of an 18-day scientific mission aboard the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) crewed flight. The Dragon spacecraft, carrying Shukla and fellow crew members Commander Peggy Whitson, ESA astronaut…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways will install CCTV cameras in all its 74,000 coaches and 15,000 locomotives to enhance safety, the national transporter announced on Sunday. The cameras will be installed in the common movement area, near the doors, of coaches to ensure no breach of privacy of passengers.In a statement, the ministry said every…
A female ‘kanwariya’ carrying water from the Ganga river during her pilgrimage in the holy month of ‘Shravan’ in Haridwar. NEW DELHI: A petition has been filed in Supreme Court challenging Uttar Pradesh government’s directive to shopkeepers to put up QR codes at their eateries along the route of Kanwar Yatra, which could be scanned…
File photo: J&K LG Manoj Sinha (Picture credit: PTI) LG Manoj Sinha, who completes five years at J&K Raj Bhavan, told TOI’s Bharti Jain that the Pahalgam terror attack was a Pakistan-sponsored terror attack. “The intention of the neighbour (Pakistan) was to create a communal divide.” “I take full responsibility for the incident, which was…