23:36
A 10-member Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team on Monday visited the Balasore train accident site and began its probe into the triple train crash, a Railway official said.ECoR's Khurda Road division DRM Rintesh Ray said that according to his information, the CBI probe has begun but the...
23:13
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee, whose wife Rujira was allegedly stopped from boarding a United Arab Emirates-bound flight on Monday, said the 'harassment' of his family was aimed at stopping his outreach campaign ahead of the panchayat elections in West Bengal. Addressing a...
22:54
Representative image only
A woman and her daughter were killed while their driver was injured after a billboard fell on their car outside Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Monday, police said.The accident occurred in the area under Sushant Golf City police station area in the evening, they said.A billboard fell on the Scorpio...
22:41
Facing an uphill task of preserving the bodies of those killed in the Balasore train accident, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar has procured at least five deep freezer containers from Paradip Port to prevent further decay of the mortal remains of the deceased.The medical...
22:15
Odisha Government Railway Police (GRP) has registered a first information report (FIR) against unidentified persons under multiple sections of the Railway Act 1989 and Indian Penal Code (IPC) in connection to the Odisha train accident.According to the FIR Report, the case has been registered...
21:29
Three persons were killed and four others injured in a gunfight between two armed groups in Manipur's Imphal West district on Monday morning, police said.The incident happened in Kangchup area of the district, they said.Those injured were admitted to a hospital in Imphal where their conditions...
21:23
Image used only for representation
In the latest fire-related incident on a train in Kerala, a passenger travelling in an inter-city express was taken into custody for allegedly attempting to set the coach on fire on Monday.The incident occurred onboard the Kannur-Ernakulam Intercity Express around 4.15 pm, both Railway Protection...
21:09
Four people were booked for allegedly carrying posters of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb during a procession in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, a video of which went viral, an official said on Monday.The Bhingar Camp police official said the procession was held in Fakirwada area at 9am on Sunday.Amid music...
20:33
The National Disaster Response Force on Monday ended its rescue operation with the withdrawal of all its nine teams from the triple train accident site in Odisha's Balasore district that has claimed at least 275 lives, officials said. The force rescued 44 victims and retrieved 121 bodies from the...
20:29
Britain's King Charles III on Monday sent a condolence message to President Droupadi Murmu, expressing his profound shock and sadness over the deadly train accident in Balasore, recalling his fond memories of a visit to Odisha 43 years ago.The accident, involving three trains, is one of the worst...
19:49
A group of people allegedly assaulted a Dalit man and chopped off his thumb after his nephew picked up a cricket ball during a match at a school playground in Gujarat's Patan district, police said.The incident took place in Kakoshi village in the district on Sunday, an official said.According to...
19:42
Noted actor Sulochana Latkar, known for her innumerable mother roles in Hindi and Marathi cinema, was cremated with state honours at the Shivaji Park crematorium in Mumbai on Monday.The 94-year-old actor died on Sunday due to prolonged illness at a hospital in Mumbai.Sulochana's daughter Kanchan...
18:43
IT company Wipro's shareholders have approved a share buyback programme worth Rs 12,000 crore, according to a scrutiniser report released on stock exchanges on Monday. The Wipro board had approved the buyback of 26.96 crore equity shares at a price of Rs 445 apiece. According to the...
18:15
Representational image. Pic: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
An Indian-American has lost his life while rescuing his 12-year-old son at a beach in the US state of California, a report said.Multiple agencies were dispatched to Panther State Beach in Santa Cruz County just after 6 pm last Monday when Srinivasa Murthy Jonnalagadda entered the water to rescue...
17:50
West Bengal Chief Minister on Monday announced state government jobs for the next of kin of those who lost their lives in the triple train crash in Odisha's Balasore.The West Bengal CM said that relatives of those who lost their limbs in the horrific crash will also be given government...
17:12
Indian carriers have started new flights on Go First's top routes to partly fill the void created by its exit. Nevertheless, spot fares on these routes have increased by as much as fivefold.Go First operated 52 flights per week on the Delhi-Ahmedabad route, making it the sixth-busiest route of...
17:08
Flipkart, India's e-commerce marketplace, has announced its much-awaited 'Big End of Season Sale' event, which will bring close to 200,000 sellers and more than 10,000+ brands together to bring a wide selection of fashion, beauty and lifestyle products to millions of customers across...
17:03
As the Vande Bharat Express crossed the site of the triple train crash at Bahanaga Bazar Monday morning successfully, the first train to cross the disaster site during day hours, passengers on board gasped as the horror of the devastation unleashed by the train pile up last Friday unfolded before...
16:40
Malini Parthasarathy tweets, My term as Chairperson of The Hindu Group Publishing ends. However, I have also resigned from the Board of the THGPPL as I find the space and scope for my editorial views shrinking. My entire endeavour as Chairperson and Director, Editorial Strategy was to ensure that...
16:35
Amruta Fadnavis bonds with nature on World Environment Day. Some wander in the man-made world to get lost and some wander in the woods of nature to find themselves ! Love the environment, embrace the environment & protect it to find yourself & to find the purpose of your life !
16:32
Lloyd Austin with Rajnath Singh
Visiting United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin on Monday said that the world is witnessing bullying and coercion from China which was seeking to redraw borders by force and also threaten the national sovereignty of countries. Addressing a press conference after holding a...
16:05
Sand artist Subala Maharana pays tribute to victims
A father's refusal to believe his son, on board Coromandel Express, had died in the accident made him travel more than 230km in an ambulance to Balasore, trace him to a makeshift morgue, resuscitate him in hospital and bring him back to Kolkata for further treatment. Read the amazing...
16:01
The Inspector General of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Narendra Singh Bundela on Monday announced the withdrawal of all nine teams of NDRF deployed for rescue operation in Odisha's Balasore after the triple-train accident. Train movement on main lines has been restored, and...
15:32
The condition of injured engine driver Gunanidhi Mohanty and his assistant Hajari Behera, who are undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, is stable, officials said. Both were rescued from the Coromandel Express that derailed near Bahanaga Bazar Station on June 2 that had claimed 275...
14:54
Sakshi Malik was manhandled by the Delhi police
Wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia have resumed duty as OSD (Sports) in the railways, but have clarified that the protest against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is NOT over. Sakshi Malik tweeted to say that news that she had withdrawn from the protests is untrue. This is...
14:39
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to grant interim bail to AAP leader Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case arising from the alleged excise policy scam. Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma, however, allowed him to meet his ailing wife in custody for one day as per her convenience between 10 am...
14:22
Mukhtar Ansari
Varanasi's MP MLA court awards life imprisonment to jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in 1991 Awadhesh Rai murder case. A special MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi convicted jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in the over three decades old murder case of Awadhesh Rai. On...
14:09
Pradeep Sharma
The Supreme Court on Monday granted three weeks interim bail to former police officer Pradeep Sharma ,who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran. A vacation bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal granted the relief...
13:58
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that he was insistent upon heads of respective parties attending the opposition meet, which was scheduled on June 12, but has been postponed. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, the JD(U) supreme leader said a new...
13:51
Documents reveal government anger over opposition of Indian nonprofits and their Western allies to the project of a powerful ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- Gautam Adani. Read the report here.
13:42
A cyclonic circulation which is set to develop into a low-pressure area over the southeast Arabian Sea and intensify in the next two days is expected to critically influence the advance of the monsoon towards the Kerala coast, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. The...
13:07
Shankar Mishra, the infamous Air India 'pee passenger'
One unruly passenger incident was reported for every 568 flights last year compared to one such incident per 835 flights in 2021, according to international airlines' grouping IATA.In recent times, there has been a steep rise in unruly passenger behaviour incidents, including in India. As it...
12:43
Varanasi's MP MLA court convicts jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in Awadhesh Rai murder case. On August 3, 1991, Congress leader and brother of former MLA Ajay Rai, Awadhesh Rai, was shot dead outside Ajay Rai's house in Varanasi. Ajay Rai had named Mukhtar Ansari, Bhim Singh and former...
12:34
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Odisha railway tragedy, saying all the empty safety claims of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have now been exposed and the government must bring to light the real reasons that caused this grave...
12:29
After five months of rigorous training, the Agniveervayus passed out of the Airmen Training School, impressing the audience with the skills they had acquired in just 22 weeks of training. Read Archana Masih's report on Rediff.com here.
12:21
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras continued to bag the top spot in the National Institute Ranking Framework, 2023 for the fifth consecutive year, while the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru has been ranked as the best university, according to the Ministry of...
12:13
An 11-year-old boy was killed in a bomb blast at a public toilet in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Monday, police said. The minor, a resident of Subhaspally, was seriously injured when he went to the public toilet near rail gate-1 in Bongaon area and the explosion took place, a...
11:44
NDRF personnel at the site of the triple train mishap
A goods train derailed on a private narrow gauge rail line in Odisha's Bargarh district on Monday, days after a horrific three-train accident in Balasore led to 275 deaths. Officials said five bogies of the train carrying limestone derailed when it was en route to Bargarh from Dunguri....
11:36
Actor Gufi Paintal, best known for playing 'Shakuni mama' in the epic TV serial Mahabharat, died on Monday at a hospital here due to age-related issues, his nephew Hiten Paintal said. He was 79. The veteran actor was admitted at a hospital in suburban Andheri. Unfortunately, he...
11:26
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will contest all future elections together, including civic polls. Shinde, whose Shiv Sena shares power with the BJP in Maharashtra, in a tweet also informed that he and Deputy...
11:02
A likely train disaster avoided. Yesterday at 3:36 pm a crack was noticed by C&W staff in the S3 coach of train No 16102 (Chennai Egmore Express) while entering Sengottai station in Tamil Nadu. Railway officials immediately detached the coach and accommodated the passengers in other coaches...
10:36
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the BJP and RSS are incapable of looking at the future and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to drive the Indian car by only looking in the rearview mirror which will lead to one accident after another. Gandhi addressed a massive...
10:28
Bollywood star Sushmita Sen says she has finished filming for the third season of her acclaimed web series Aarya. The 47-year-old actor took to social media on Sunday night to share the update with fans and followers. It's a wrap!!! #Aarya3 #lovelove Captain @RamKMadhvani #KapilSharma...
10:04
Indian Railways on Monday has started running passenger trains on the tracks in Bahanaga village in Odisha's Balasore which were affected due to the triple train accident. The triple train accident in Odisha's Balasore which left 275 dead and more than 1,000 injured, Indian Railways on...
09:52
Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt tweets, After hours of urging @TeamYouTube to act & being assured action is being taken, I woke up to find @themojostory channel content ALL DELETED by the hackers- four years of blood, toil, sweat, tears, 11 thousand videos, COVID work of 3 years, ALL GONE. I am heartbroken...
09:48
India's top wrestlers, who have been protesting against BJP MP and chief of the country's wrestling federation Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, met Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday.Olympian Bajrang Punia told NDTV that they met the Home Minister late on Saturday evening at his Delhi home.NDTV says...
09:26
Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said that their goal is to make missing persons' family members to find them as soon as possible after the horrific triple train accident that took place in Odisha's Balasore on June 2. Our objective is to ensure that all the missing...
09:21
Odisha Chief Secretary PK Jena said his government has no intention to hide the deaths in the Balasore train crash and the entire rescue operation was being conducted in full public view. Reacting to allegations that the death toll figure was being manipulated, he said Odisha believes in...
08:23
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party saying they never talk about the future, and always blame somebody else in the past for their failures. Gandhi, who is on a visit to the US, was addressing the members of Indian...
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances
