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People put up pictures of loved ones missing in the floods
Nepal's Cyber Bureau has formed a 10-member team to investigate social media users accused of posting abusive and hateful comments targeting people affected by last month's devastating flash floods, according to a media report.The move came after Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Saturday warned...
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Air India Express Boeing 737 operating flight IX 415 from Cochin to Abu Dhabi was forced to turn back mid-flight after the crew detected a rapidly falling oil quantity on Engine 1 and later shut the engine down when oil pressure entered the danger zone.The aircraft landed safely at Cochin...
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The Delhi High Court on Monday agreed to grant urgent hearing on a plea by Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj against his arrest in connection with the alleged assault on the father of a student activist during a protest at Jantar Mantar.The habeas corpus petition was mentioned for urgent...
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A man who was out on bail allegedly raped a minor Dalit girl in a field under the Jait police station area in Mathura, officials said on Monday, adding that the accused has been arrested.The accused, identified as Jai Kishan (25), a resident of Mora village, was apprehended from the Bati Maghera...
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The MCD has given the owner of a building in southwest Delhi's Satya Niketan three days to demolish the structure after it was found to be in a ruinous and dangerous condition, following the collapse of a five-storey building in the area, which resulted in the deaths of six individuals.On...
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Late filmmaker-actor Rob Reiner has won an Emmy Award, for which he was nominated posthumously. Nine months after his death, Rob Reiner won the Outstanding Guest Actor Award in a Comedy Series for 'The Bear' at the Creative Emmy Awards Night 2, as per Variety. With this, he prevailed...
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Arnold Dix at the Nepal rescue ops
Australian tunnel rescue expert Arnold Dix, internationally celebrated for his pivotal contribution in extracting forty-one trapped workers from India's Silkyara tunnel during 2023, has characterised ongoing flood mitigation operations throughout Nepal as a professional challenge unlike any...
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday said the government, in collaboration with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), is formulating a policy mandating periodic structural audits and safety certifications for all buildings used for public activity -- including PGs, nursing homes,...
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The pendency of cases in India should be viewed in light of the number of cases filed each year and the quality of decisions made by courts at all levels, former Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna said.Speaking at the inaugural Justice S H Kapadia Memorial Lecture on Sunday, the former CJI said...
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A woman's partially decomposed and decapitated body was recovered from a house in Guwahati's Beltola area while the head, wrapped in a plastic bag, was found in the refrigerator, police said on Monday.The victim, Riya Talukdar, worked in a boutique while her husband was a cab driver.On Sunday...
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Marking the solemn approach of the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump has reflected on the profound impact of that fateful morning in 2001, recalling the moment he realised the world had changed forever and praising New York City's resilience in rebuilding from the...
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has ordered that all illegal constructions with more than four floors be immediately sealed and warned that strict action will be taken against officials found responsible for allowing such structures to be built.The decision came as a building collapsed...
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The 57th meeting of the GST Council, which was earlier scheduled for September 12, is likely to be held on October 7 in New Delhi, sources said on Sunday.The meeting was postponed because its earlier date clashed with the BRICS Leaders' Summit scheduled for September 12-13.An official...
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People use a zipline across the Trishuli river
Nepal on Monday observed a national day of mourning on the 13th day of the Rasuwa flash flood disaster, honouring more than 1,340 people who lost their lives in one of the country's deadliest natural disasters in recent history.Nearly 5,000 people remain missing, including 589 foreign nationals,...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday called Bharatiya Janata Party's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Vinod Tawde pagal (crazy) over his expanding the opposition party's coinage PDA to paraya dhan apna.Yadav said the ruling BJP knows better how to grab someone else's dhan (money) and make it its...
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Hindutva is clear that your 'karma bhoomi' is where your loyalties lie and for British Hindus that is the UK, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. Addressing a large diaspora celebration entitled 'Celebration of Oneness', attended by...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday claimed that anger was being created in society through social media and citizens were being kept embroiled in caste and religious disputes.Speaking to his party office-bearers in Thane, he criticised the unbridled use of high-decibel sound...
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday ordered a magisterial probe into the Satya Niketan house collapse incident that claimed the lives of five DU students and injuries to several more.Earlier in the day, the chief minister visited the site, where a nearly 30-year-old five-storey building...
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A total of 11 people have been rescued from the debris of a 50-year-old multi-storey building that collapsed in southwest Delhi's Satya Niketan area, with the death toll reaching six, an official said on Monday.The building, which housed a boys' paying guest accommodation near Delhi University's...
