NEW DELHI: A massive cloudburst struck Chasoti village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and causing extensive damage. Officials fear the death toll could rise, according to news agency PTI. J&K’s cloudburst hits remote village during yatra The disaster occurred between 12 noon and 1 pm in Chasoti,…
NEW DELHI: Times Prime has kicked off a 10-day Independence Day campaign, ‘Azaadi Unboxed’, running from August 8 to 17, in collaboration with Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. As part of the campaign, a limited-edition comic book, Azaadi Ki Kahaniyaan, will showcase stories of lesser-known heroes from India’s freedom struggle. It also includes a special…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission to publish details of 65 lakh persons omitted from the electoral rolls after the special intensive revision in poll-bound Bihar on its official website by Tuesday. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymala Bagchi also directed the poll body to accept Aadhaar cards…
Representational AI image NEW DELHI: A Chinese climber has died while coming down from K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Guan Jing was returning from the summit on Tuesday night when falling rocks struck her. She was one of about 30 climbers who had reached the top a day earlier. The accident happened on the Abruzzi…
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said India would not have got Independence if Bengal was not there, as personalities like Rabindranath Tagore and Subhas Chandra Bose, who contributed significantly to shaping the nation’s destiny, were born here.Speaking at a function marking the 12th anniversary of the ‘Kanyashree’ scheme, Banerjee said Bengal is the beacon…
A Serbian national has embarked on a unique cleanliness campaign in India, pledging to clean one street per day until India’s Independence Day on August 15. Operating under the social media handle @4CleanIndia, he launched the initiative “Ek Din Ek Gully” (One Day One Street), which has gained significant traction on Instagram and sparked discussions…
Samajwadi Party MLA Pooja Pal NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party MLA Pooja Pal on Thursday thanked Uttar Pradesh chief ministerYogi Adityanath for bringing her justice, saying he had “buried” dreaded gangster Atiq Ahmed, who was behind the killing of her husband, Raju Pal.She said CM Yogi’s “zero-tolerance policy” against crime delivered justice in the 2005 murder…
Activists of the left parties take part in a protest rally against alleged illegal detention and torture of Bengali-speaking migrant workers, in Kolkata (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) concerning the detention and alleged torture of Bengali-speaking migrant workers under suspicion of being Bangladeshi…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved the order on an interim prayer seeking a stay on the order by its two-judge bench over the stray dogs. While hearing, the apex court grilled the local authorities for their inaction, which led to severe problems.Huge uproar erupted after the August 11 order passed by Justices…
A video of a schoolboy riding a horse to school while being accompanied by a dog has gone viral on social media. The footage, reportedly captured in Meghalaya’s hilly terrain, shows the student in his school uniform traveling to school on horseback, with a black dog running alongside.The clip was shared on Instagram by the…