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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told the NDA to focus on issues apart from Ram Mandir ahead of the 2024 general elections. At a meeting with MPs from Uttar Pradesh today, the Prime Minister advised the MPs to go local, and "spend more time with the people", sources said. The MPs who attended the meet -- to be a part of a series of meetings -- were from West Uttar Pradesh, Braj and the Kanpur-Bundelkhand area. Sources said the Prime Minister has asked the MPs to talk about local issues in their respective constituencies, go to programmes that people attend including weddings. "PM Modi gave the mantra of 2024 victory to NDA MPs. 'Convince those who are sulky, angry, spend more and more time with the public during elections," a source quoted him as saying. Invoking 'coalition dharma', he said unlike the UPA, the NDA is about sacrifice, not selfishness, sources said.   As an example, PM Modi cited Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who, he said, was m

Author and philanthropist Sudha Murty is yet again garnering attention online for her comments about her food habits. Appearing in a recent episode of YouTube series called 'Khaane Mein Kaun Hai' , the wife of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy revealed that she is a pure vegetarian and hence one of her biggest concerns is the possibility of the same spoon being used for both vegetarian and non-veg food items. Ms Murty mentioned that while she is adventurous when it comes to her work, she is not the same regarding her food choices. "I am a pure vegetarian, I don't even eat eggs, or garlic. What I am scared of is, that the same spoon will be used for both, vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. It weighs on my mind a lot!" Ms Murty admitted. She also said that when she travels abroad, she seeks out vegetarian restaurants or prepares her own meals. She carries her own bag of food and cooking items that can be easily heated in water, she said. Ms Murty's comment

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted by the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Kerala's Aluva to investigate the alleged rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl, an official said. Speaking to news agency ANI, Ernakulam Rural District Police Chief Vivek Kumar said that a team of around fourteen people has been formed for further probe into the case. "Special investigation team has been formed under the leadership of Aluva DySP. ISHO Manjudas is the investigating officer. We have a team of around 14 people including SIs, ASIs, and Cyber experts," Mr Kumar said. As per the doctor's statement, there were injuries to the private parts of the girl and the death was due to asphyxiation caused by strangulation, he added. "The statement of the doctor, who conducted the autopsy of the child, said that there were injuries in the private parts and the death was due to asphyxiation caused by strangulation. The motive was the sexual gratification of the acc

Singapore's High Commissioner to India, Simon Wong on Friday congratulated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for launching the PSLV-C56. He noted that the rocket has placed seven satellites developed by Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), ST Engineering, Singapore's universities and private industry into orbit.  Taking to Twitter, Singapore High Commissioner to India, Simon Wong stated, "Congratulations to @isro for launching the PSLV-C56 successfully this morning. The rocket also placed seven satellites developed by DSTA, ST Engineering, our universities and private industry into orbit. To bold new frontiers in the India-Singapore space partnership! - HC Wong."  Simon Wong's statement comes after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday launched PSLV-C56 carrying seven satellites, including the primary satellite DS-SAR and six co-passenger satellites, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch vehicle

Police officials in Andhra Pradesh came to the rescue of a group of B-Tech students who were stuck in knee-deep floodwater in NTR district's Nandigram. Fearing that they won't be able to reach their college on time, students requested the Nandigama police to step in. Notably, the highway near Nandigram was marooned by overflowing flood water, and surrounding villages were completely drowned. Coming to their aid, the police arranged a crane to cross the overflowing highway and drop the students at the exam center. The police also helped the students get back home after the exam. Andhra Pradesh Police shared a video of the rescue on their official Twitter handle. Watch the video here: #APPolice helps students to attend exam on a crane in knee deep flood water: The highway near #Nandigama ,NTR(D) is marooned by overflowing flood water.Surrounding villages are completely drowned & road communication was cut off as knee deep water over flowed on high way.(1/2) pic.twitter.c

Booksellers along the river Seine say the Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris after they were told by local authorities that they will have to remove their stalls for the Summer Games opening ceremony in 2024 for security reasons. Around 570 of the famous old stalls that line the river in the capital need to be dismantled and moved, or almost 60% of the riverside booksellers, according to the city authorities. "People come to see us like they come to see the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, (but) they want to hide us during a ceremony that is supposed to represent Paris," said Jerome Callais, the president of the Paris booksellers association. Paris police have told the booksellers their stalls are within the perimeter of protection for the opening ceremony and need to be removed for "obvious security reasons," the police said in a statement. Paris 2024 organisers expect at least 600,000 people to attend the opening ceremony on the Seine, during which athle

A section of people taking out Muharram processions clashed with police and pelted stones at them, injuring around 10 cops and damaging several vehicles, after they were stopped from changing the designated route in west Delhi's Nangloi on Saturday, officials said. The police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the "unruly crowd", they said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) Harendra Singh said, "Several 'tazia' processions were being carried out in Nagloi area and around eight to ten thousand people participated in them. One or two organisers became unruly and tried to divert their procession route which was earlier decided." "When police objected to it, they started pelting stones at police personnel. In order to control them, police resorted to a mild lathicharge and dispersed them from the area," Singh said. According to the police, around 10 personnel received minor injuries and some police vehicles were damaged in the stone pelting

A man in his mid-30s in Belgium has confessed to killing his mother and sticking parts of her body in a fridge found in a canal in the country's east, prosecutors said Friday. The refrigerator with its grisly contents -- two arms and two legs -- was found Tuesday bobbing in a canal on the outskirts of the city of Liege, triggering a murder investigation. That led detectives to discover the rest of the woman's body -- her head and torso -- in a trash container thrown in a nearby river. A tattoo on the torso helped identify the victim as a woman in her 70s, a spokeswoman for the Liege prosecutors' office told AFP. Her son, born in 1988, was arrested just before dawn on Thursday in a hotel close to Brussels's airport. He apparently was preparing to take a flight to South Korea, the spokeswoman, Catherine Collignon, said. Under questioning by police, the man "confessed", she added, and the investigating judge ordered him charged and taken into custody. Earl

The Janata Dal (United) has issued a whip to all its Rajya Sabha members, including Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Harivansh, asking them to ensure their presence in the House till August 11. The whip, party leaders said, has been issued as voting is expected on the contentious National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which seeks to replace an ordinance negating a Supreme Court order giving power of transfer and posting to the Delhi government. The ordinance has restored the supremacy of the Centre in the matter. With the JD(U) coming out strongly with the rest of Opposition against the bill, political watchers are curious about the stand Harivansh will take as his relations with the party leadership have been a matter of speculation, more so after its national president Lalan Singh assailed him recently over his perceived proximity to the government. The Bihar party has five MPs in the House where the opposition bloc of 'INDIA' is working overtime to arra

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday slammed the Congress and its allies, including the DMK, saying nothing would happen by changing the name of their alliance to INDIA. He was addressing a rally here, ahead of kick-starting Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai's state-wide 'En Mann, En Makkal (My Land, My People)' padayatra. "When Congress and its allies, including the DMK, go to the people seeking votes, the public would remember the corruption, including the 2G scam and CommonWealth Games scam during the UPA regime, " he said. "Congress-DMK and allies opposed the removal of Art 370; is Kashmir ours or not," he asked. Taking forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Tamil pitch, he said PM Modi honoured Tamil culture by installing the 'sengol' in the new parliament building. The senior BJP leader hit out at the DMK regime, calling it the most corrupt in the nation and said the BJP's yatra is an attempt to usher in politics of devel

The Nagpur police have registered a case against a chartered accountant for allegedly misusing his client's bank account to turn nearly Rs 4 crore of black money into white, an official said on Thursday. The case against CA Anoop Charudutt Sagdeo (50) came on a complaint by the director of a logistics company. The police said the director had given Sagdeo blank cheques in connection with his company's work. However, Sagdeo first allegedly deposited black money of Rs 3.99 crore into the company's account and then used the blank cheques to divert the white money to his friends and relatives. While Sagdeo allegedly committed the crime between 2013 and 2015, it recently came to light during an audit, said the police. He is also accused of acquiring a second PAN number under the logistics company's name and illegally using it to deceive the client. A police source said Sagdeo apparently took a lot of money from his other clients under the guise of making investments bu

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Thursday said it has arrested a man in Pune for allegedly giving shelter to the two terror suspects held last week by the city police by subletting a flat where he was a tenant. The ATS also said that it recovered black "explosive" powder, laptops, parts of drones, books written in Arabic, among other things from the two terror suspects, in addition to a tent that the duo had allegedly procured to stay in the forest areas in Pune's adjoining districts. The ATS took over the probe into the case from the Pune police recently. The two terror suspects, wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for their alleged involvement in a terror-related case in Rajasthan, was arrested from the Kothrud area of Pune city in the early hours of July 18. A court in Pune later remanded the duo - Mohammad Imran Mohammad Yunus Khan (23) and Mohammad Yunus Mohammad Yakub Saki (24) - in police custody till July 25, which was extended till

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday told the legislative assembly that the iron ore mining operations in the state, which came to a standstill in 2018, will start by November this year. The mining industry used to be one of the major revenue earners for the coastal state. However, it stopped functioning in 2018 after the Supreme Court quashed 88 mining leases. Responding to the demands for grants of the mining department, Mr. Sawant told the House during the ongoing Monsoon session of the assembly that nine blocks of iron ore have already been auctioned. The state government has collected Rs 45 crore for the auctioning of the nine blocks, he said. In December last year, the Goa government said it completed the first phase of the auction of mining blocks with four companies winning bids for the extraction of ore from different mineral-rich stretches of the coastal state. Mr Sawant said that of these four blocks, three will start working from the month to November-December

A 20-year-old student of IIT-Hyderabad died by suicide last week in Vishakhapatnam by drowning himself in the sea. The student, identified as Dhanavath Kartik, was allegedly struggling due to some backlogs in college because of which he took the extreme step, suspect the police. Dhanavath Kartik, whose parents reside in Miryalguda town of Telangana, was reportedly missing from his IIT college hostel campus in Hyderabad from July 17. The hostel authorities filed a missing complaint on July 19 after his parents came looking for him after he did not answer his phone. According to Kartik's uncle Ravindra, he would speak to his mother twice every day and had spoken to her even on the evening before the incident. However, when he did not answer his phone in the morning on July 19, his mother got worried. The police said that Kartik made his last call to his mother from somewhere near Jodugullapalem Beach in Visakhapatnam but even then made her believe he was on the campus. According t

A bureaucrat's father was arrested today for allegedly making casteist remarks against the Deputy Commissioner of Haryana's Charkhi Dadri district, the police said. Ashok Swami, the accused, made the remarks during a protest on Tuesday over waterlogging and poor drainage system in the Dadri market area. Shops in the Dadri market remained shut on Tuesday, with owners later holding a meeting at the Ambedkar Chowk, during which Mr Swami allegedly made the casteist remarks against the deputy commissioner, the police said. However, those present at the meeting objected to his comments. Later, a video of the incident surfaced on social media. An official of the agriculture department, posted as the Duty Magistrate during the traders' protest, complained to the police, based on which a case was filed against Mr Swami, the police said. "Ashok Swami, the accused in the case, has been arrested. The charge is that the accused made casteist remarks against Charkhi Dadri'

The highly-anticipated movie 'Barbie' starring Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling which was released on July 21, is making a splash at the theatres globally. The Barbie mania is taking over, and people, companies, brands and everyone else is jumping on the pink bandwagon. So, how can AI artists not ride the trendy train?  Recently, an artist named Shahid SK used AI to give a Barbie makeover to our favourite Bollywood divas. The stunning pictures feature 10 actresses- Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt, Parineeti Chopra, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Suhana Khan, Disha Patani, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Shraddha Kapoor.  The AI tool adorned the actresses in gorgeous pink and multicoloured outfits, flawless makeup, and beautiful hairstyles to give them divas a Barbie-like appearance. The artist used Midjourney to create the images. ''Bollywood Meets Barbie. What if Barbie was made in India? Bollywood Divas as Indian Barbie Icons: Redefining Dreams,'&#

An official of the revenue department in Madhya Pradesh's Katni swallowed money he had taken as a bribe after spotting a team of the Lokayukta's Special Police Establishment (SPE), an official said. The incident took place on Monday when patwari Gajendra Singh received Rs 5,000 as a bribe in his private office as part of a trap laid by authorities, SPE Superintendent of Police Sanjay Sahu said. "A man from the Barkheda village had complained to us, accusing Gajendra Singh of seeking a bribe. After taking the money, Mr Singh spotted the SPE team and swallowed it. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors said he is fine," the official said. A case has been registered and further probe is underway, the police said. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/BPFslRH

A 26-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death when he resisted a robbery bid in Delhi on Sunday, the police said, adding that two of the three accused have been arrested. The accused have been identified as Irfan (22) and Sanjeev (24), police said, adding that the victim has been identified as Ajeet (26) alias Neeraj - a resident of Shehzada Bagh. On Sunday around 11 am, a call was received about a person with a stab injury. The injured was shifted to the Hindu Rao Hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival by the doctors, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sagar Singh Kalsi said. "No identification proof was available with the body. There were two tattoos - one on either arm. We spread the word through informers to identify the victim," he said. Speaking about the investigation, Mr Kalsi said that the accused were located after footage of CCTV cameras from the area was examined. After analyzing the footage, two suspects were zeroed in on and caught. "They

A team of mountaineers from the army's Dagger Division has achieved a historic feat by climbing the 7,077-metre high Mount Kun in record seven days to mark Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrations. "The journey commenced on July 8 when the team was flagged off from Baramulla by Maj Gen Rajesh Sethi, GOC, 19 Infantry Division. Setting off from the base camp on July 11, the intrepid mountaineers led by Col Rajneesh Joshi achieved their long-awaited victory as they summited Mount Kun on July 18 at 11:40 am," a defence spokesman said here. To give an extraordinary touch to their accomplishment, the mountaineers also performed yoga at the 7,077 metres altitude, making it the highest point ever where yoga has been practiced, he said. "This remarkable feat not only showcases the unwavering dedication and exceptional skills of the Indian Army's mountaineering team, but also highlights the deep-rooted connection between physical well-being and spiritual practices," the

The ethnic violence in Manipur that erupted on May 3 and has left over 160 dead has been largely fuelled by rumours and fake news, according to officials from various security agencies who have been monitoring the situation in the restive northeastern state. The despicable May 4 incident in Kangpokpi district, where two women were paraded naked and assaulted by several people, was among the spate of sexual attacks that occurred after a picture of a body wrapped in polythene was circulated in the Imphal valley with a false claim that the victim had been murdered by tribals in Churachandpur. The picture was later found to be that of a woman murdered in the national capital but the fire had engulfed the valley by that time, and what was witnessed the next day put humanity to shame, says an official while referring to the video of the Kangpokpi incident that appeared on social media last week and has sparked massive outrage in the country. On the same day, barely 30 km away, two more wo

The Delhi government is on high alert due to the discharge of over two lakh cusecs of water from the Hathnikund Barrage in Haryana into the Yamuna, Revenue Minister Atishi said. Some parts of Yamuna Khadar (floodplains) might get inundated if the river's water level crosses 206.7 metres. However, the government is prepared for evacuations, the minister said. According to the Central Water Commission (CWC) data, the flow rate at the Yamunanagar-located Hathnikund Barrage crossed the 1 lakh mark at 9 am and oscillated between 2 lakh and 2.5 lakh cusecs between 10 am and 4 pm. The India Meteorological Department has predicted heavy to very heavy rain in parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand till July 25. Atishi said a regular ' munadi ' (announcement) is being done in vulnerable areas to inform residents about the threat of flooding. Relief camps have been inspected and preparations made for people to stay there. The Delhi government is on high alert due to the discha

Manipur Police has arrested a sixth person in connection with the May 4 parading of two women naked in Kangpokpi district of the state, officials said on Saturday. Police said the arrested person is a juvenile. Police had made the first arrest on Thursday, a day after a 26-second video of the horrific incident surfaced on July 19. Three more arrests were made later that day. The fifth accused, 19-year-old youth, was arrested on Saturday. One of the women seen in the video is the wife of an ex-army man, who served as a subedar in the Assam Regiment and had even fought in the Kargil War.  More than 160 people have lost their lives, and several have been injured since ethnic violence broke out in the state on May 3, when a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur's population and live mostly in the Imphal Valley, whil

In a first of its kind, a transgender has been issued a birth certificate by the Jaipur Greater Municipal Corporation, officials said on Friday. Bhanwarlal Bairwa, Director of Economic and Statistics Department and Chief Registrar (Births and Deaths), issued Rajasthan's first transgender birth certificate to Noor Shekhawat of Jaipur on Wednesday, they added. Bhanwarlal Bhairwa said along with the birth records of males and females, the birth records of transgender persons will now be available on the corporation's portal. An awareness programme will also be launched to encourage transgenders to apply for their birth certificates, Bhairwa said. Noor Shekhawat's gender was registered as 'male' at the time of birth, he added. Noor Shekhawat, who passed Class 12 from an English medium school and runs a voluntary organisation for the transgender community, said this initiative will help the government maintain records of transgender persons along with those of disab

The value of defence production crossed Rs 1 lakh crore-mark in 2022-23 - the first time ever in the country, the central government said on Friday. Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt, in a written response to a query in Lok Sabha, also said that the government in the past few years has encouraged indigenous design and manufacture of defence equipment by the local industry, including MSMEs and start-ups, promoting the ease-of-doing business in defence manufacture and technology in the country. When asked whether the value of defence production crossed the figure of Rs 1 lakh crore for the first time ever in the financial year 2022-23, the minister said, "Yes, sir." Mr Bhatt said the Union government promotes participation of MSMEs and start-ups for the development of defence technology under schemes such as Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), Technology Development Fund (TDF), and Make procedure under Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020. The DAP 2020 pro

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked its schools to consider using Indian languages as optional medium of instruction to make multilingual education a reality. Schools affiliated to the CBSE has now an option of teaching in regional languages from pre-primary to Class 12. Till now, CBSE schools could teach only either in English or Hindi, unlike state board schools that can teach in English, Hindi or a state language. The CBSE's announcement is in line with the government's push for the National Education Policy (NEP). The University Grants Commission (UGC) had recently come up with a similar circular for higher education. "This is a historic decision and will open a world of opportunities for many children, besides Indianising teaching and learning systems in the country," Chamu Krishna Shastry, head of the high-powered Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti for the promotion of Indian languages under the Education Ministry, told NDTV today. "With the

When Aileen Mercedes Cannon was appointed a judge by Donald Trump three years ago, she could hardly have imagined she would preside over his trial. But on Friday she set May 20, 2024 as the date to start the unprecedented federal criminal prosecution of a former president in her small Fort Pierce, Florida courtroom. Her assignment to the high-stakes trial has added another layer of controversy to the case, in which Trump is charged with 37 counts of willfully keeping highly classified US documents in his Mar-a-Lago, Florida home, obstruction of justice and lying to federal law enforcement officials. Some of the charges bring up to 20 years in prison, with Cannon to decide the sentencing if a jury finds Trump guilty. The pressure is even higher because the trial will start in the middle of an already intense battle before the November 2024 presidential election, with Trump leading the race for the Republican nomination. It remains to be seen how Cannon will accommodate the courtroo

All seven MLAs of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Nagaland have expressed support to Ajit Pawar in a huge setback for his uncle Sharad Pawar. The seven NCP MLAs of the northeast state in a statement today said all party workers in the Nagaland NCP office will also support Ajit Pawar. Earlier this month, Ajit Pawar and eight other NCP MLAs joined the Maharashtra Shiv Sena and BJP alliance government, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. That move split the NCP, the party founded by Sharad Pawar. Ajit Pawar's tactical manoeuvre has parallels to how Mr Shinde broke away from the Shiv Sena when Uddhav Thackeray was the Chief Minister. Mr Shinde eventually gained control of the Shiv Sena. In 2019, the Shiv Sena had ended the alliance with the BJP and formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra with the Congress and NCP. The government collapsed last year after Mr Shinde split the party and joined hands with the BJP to form a new government. Asserting his leaders

A torrential downpour in Moscow has caused flash flooding, leaving residents running for cover on the streets and trapping people in cars and buses. According to the Russian News Agency TASS, the damage caused by Tuesday's torrential downpour in Moscow may amount to dozens of millions of rubles, President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergey Katyrin said. "Preliminarily, damage to the city's businesses is estimated at several dozen million rubles. Naturally, exact losses are yet to be determined," he said, adding that restaurants and cafes with summer terraces were hit the hardest. More than a quarter of the average monthly precipitation fell in the span of an hour in some of Moscow's districts on Tuesday. Many roads were flooded. Later, the city's authorities warned about another wave of rain that may be even heavier than earlier in the day. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/1pXY8mJ

An seven-year-old Indian-origin schoolgirl, who started volunteering for a United Nations' sustainability initiative against microplastic pollution when she was just three, has been awarded the British Prime Minister's Points of Light award. Moksha Roy, who received the award from Deputy British Prime Minister Oliver Dowden last week, has the distinction of being the world's youngest sustainability advocate. Moksha has been recognised for volunteering for several sustainability campaigns, including raising funds to help children in need. "Moksha has set an excellent example in her work championing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has gone to significant lengths to have these included in the school curriculum and has been in communication with leaders all over the world to encourage them to consider this," said Dowden. "Her school no longer uses plastic glitter, confetti or plastic art supplies - this is a testament to her strong beliefs and ab

A Jack Russell Terrier was saved by a Mountain Rescue Team after falling 60 metres down one of the UK's largest waterfalls. According to The Metro, the small dog tumbled down the Grey Mare's Tail Waterfall near Moffatt, Dumfriesshire, in Scotland, just before 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. The waterfall is one of the UK's largest and a famous Scottish beauty spot near Loch Skeen. Amazingly, Louis survived the huge fall and was successfully rescued by three volunteers from the 15-strong local Moffat Mountain Rescue Team. Moffat Mountain Rescue Team shared the rescue efforts on its social media page and wrote, "At 14:46 on Sunday, July 16th, Moffat MRT were contacted by Police Scotland Dumfries & Galloway to assist in the search and rescue of Jack Russell Louie after he took a fall down the Grey Mare's Tail near Moffat. The famous waterfall is one of the highest in the UK, plunging over 60 metres into the valley below. Louie was last seen tumbling down the hills

Over 50 bus passengers had a miraculous escape on Tuesday when a portion of a bridge near the Rasulpur block office in Odisha's Jajpur district collapsed seconds after the vehicle crossed it. The bus was on its way to Bhubaneswar from Balasore. The incident has affected vehicular movement on Kolkata-Chennai NH-16. The collapsed portion of the bridge was on one side of the six-lane highway. A tractor driver, who saw the portion of the bridge collapse, prevented other vehicles from using it. "I was proceeding towards Kuakhia from Khaanditar on my tractor. When I reached the Rasulpur block office, I heard a loud sound. Before I could imagine what happened, I saw a portion of the bridge collapse. I blocked the highway by putting my tractor near the site and guided vehicles to take an alternative road," tractor driver Raghunath said. Later, police arrived and controlled traffic movement on the NH between Panikoili and Chandikhole stretch. "Traffic was diverted throu

A dome-shaped mysterious object has washed up on a remote Australian beach, amid speculation that it could be from a 20-year-old Indian rocket that was used for launching a satellite. The canister was discovered near the beach in Green Head in Western Australia (WA) about 250 kilometres north of the city of Perth on Saturday. When contacted by PTI, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sources confirmed receipt of a formal communication from the Australian Space Agency. However, they did not provide the details. The bizarre-looking object has been declared a piece of space junk, while national agencies, including the Australian Space Agency (ASA), continue working to identify its origin. The copper-coloured bulky cylinder, which stands taller than a human, appears to be damaged at one end and is covered with barnacles, indicating that it has spent a significant amount of time at sea before washing up. "We are currently making enquiries related to this object located o

A 14-year-old girl was found murdered today at her home, the police said as they took a man into custody suspecting his involvement in the case. Nearly Rs 25 lakh in cash is missing, officials said. The girl was alone at home, with her father - an Ayurveda practitioner - was at his clinic with his wife and younger child, the police said. "They found their daughter, Shilpi, lying on the bed with a cloth tied around her neck and blood oozing out from her mouth when they returned home around 1:30 pm. The girl was rushed to a hospital nearby but did not survive," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Noida) Anil Kumar Yadav said. The girl's father, Sudarshan Bairagi, said he had recently sold a property which fetched him around Rs 23.5 lakh, Mr Yadav said. The money was at home along with another Rs 1.5 lakh that he already had, he added. "Mr Bairagi raised suspicion on a man who is also from the same village as him and would frequently visit his house. The doctor c

Three people were killed when their car fell into a stream after a portion of a road caved in the Nankneri area here in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday, police said. In Kangra, 55 people, who were trapped in the Gandhara and Myani areas following an increase in the water level of the Beas, were rescued by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), officials said. On the accident, police said a stretch of the Neerath-Nankheri-Pandadhar link road caved in leading to the car falling into the stream. Three bodies have been recovered by police and fire department personnel and locals, they said. The accident was reported to police by other commuters. The victims were identified as Veer Singh (40), Himmat Singh (28) and Ratan (50) all hailing from Nankheri. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has expressed grief over the accident. In the Indora sub-division of Kangra district, operations to rescue the 55 people, including children, went on for nine hours, ending around 5 am on Tuesday.

Due to the Sun's occasional severe solar storms, which have the potential to disrupt all communication on Earth, there has been a resurgence of interest in its solar cycles. Today's solar flare pounded our world, crashing into the magnetic field of the earth. According to Spaceweather.com, the big sunspot AR3363 just produced a significant solar flare, a long-duration M6-class event, during the early hours of July 18th. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast near the sun's southwestern limb. Energetic protons accelerated by the flare have reached Earth and are now peppering the top of our planet's atmosphere. This is called a "radiation storm." According to data from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite, it is a category S2 event. The website, which tracks solar activity, reported that, although the explosion was not X-class, it was more powerful than many X-flares would be. Why? Because it lasted so long. The flare's X-ray output was above M

Tamil Nadu Minister for Higher Education and DMK leader K Ponmudy was taken by Enforcement Directorate officials to the agency's office here on Monday night, following searches. Amid security provided by central police forces, K Ponmudy was taken to the ED office here and he is likely to be questioned, official sources told PTI, adding that searches were held for about 10 hours on premises linked to the minister here and in Villupuram. The ED conducted searches on properties associated with Ponmudy as well as his MP son Gautham Sigamani in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal sand mining. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/gF7QKzf

World Bank president Ajay Banga on Monday said amid global challenges, he is more optimistic about India and its economy now than he has been "in a long time". Talking to the media on the sidelines of the third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting here, the first-ever Indian-American to head the top global financial institution said the world economy is in a difficult place. Banga (63) showered praises on India for its digital infrastructure, saying he is a "big fan" of such initiatives taken by the world's fifth-largest economy. "I am more optimistic about India, as a whole, economically, than I have been for a long time. The fact is that the world economy is in a difficult place. It has outperformed what everybody thought. But it does not mean that it won't be more challenging. The IMF forecast and the World Bank forecast is that the world will get a little challenging over the next year or so," he said at the Mahatma Mandi

The Opposition camp including Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, and the NCP (Sharad Pawar group) on Sunday decided to boycott the tea party to be hosted by the Maharashtra government on the eve of the state legislature's monsoon session, starting Monday. A meeting was organised by the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council Ambadas Danve, who belongs to Shiv Sena (UBT), which was attended by Congress legislative party leader Balasaheb Thorat and Nationalist Congress Party's Jayant Patil. Notably, the post of the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly is lying vacant after incumbent Ajit Pawar of NCP resigned recently and joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government as Deputy Chief Minister. Eight other MLAs of Ajit Pawar's camp were sworn in as ministers. "We have decided to boycott the high tea invitation of the state government as it has failed to solve the woes of people on several fronts. This government's validity on Constitutional norms is alread

The great-great-granddaughter of a police officer who investigated the "Jack the Ripper" murders in 19th century London believes she has uncovered the killer's true identity, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Sarah Bax Horton has written a book on her research into local cigar-maker Hyam Hyams, who she said closely matches witness descriptions from the time of a suspect seen with the victims. The "Jack the Ripper" murders, which saw at least six women killed in the East End of London in 1888, remain one of Britain's most notorious unsolved cases. A whole industry has sprung up around the case, including books, exhibitions and tours around the streets of the Whitechapel district where the women were killed. Bax Horton said she had identified Hyams, an epileptic and alcoholic who was in an out of mental asylums, as the likely culprit. Witnesses at the time described a man seen with the victims who was in his mid-30s, with a stiff arm, irregular gait and bent

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday said that a final decision on attending the NDA meeting or formally joining the ruling alliance at the Centre ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections will be taken after holding consultations with all party leaders and workers. "We will take a final decision (on joining the NDA) after consulting all the party leaders and workers. We have supported BJP on various issues from time to time, but the final decision on whether to go to the NDA meeting or joining the alliance (ahead of the Lok Sabha polls) will be taken after holding discussions with all party leaders," Chirag Paswan told ANI on Saturday. BJP national president JP Nadda on Saturday wrote to Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, inviting him to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting that is scheduled to be held on July 18, the LJP (Ram Vilas) informed through a tweet. The meeting in the national capital will be chaired by P

Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik is getting "specialized medical assistance" and his right to health or right to life is not infringed in any manner, said the Bombay High Court while refusing him medical bail in a money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The HC further said Malik's medical report does not indicate he is suffering from any critical ailment. On the contrary, the report says the former state minister does not need further hospitalization, the HC observed. A single bench of Justice Anuja Prabhudessai had rejected Malik's plea seeking bail on medical grounds on July 13. The detailed order was made available on Saturday. Malik was arrested in February 2022 by the ED in a case linked to alleged activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his associates. He is in judicial custody and currently undergoing treatment in a private hospital here. Malik's counsel Amit Desai had argued his client's heal