An untoward incident took place in Maharashtra’s Palghar district when three unidentified assailants allegedly attacked two priests and looted a temple.    It comes only over a month on after the lynching of two sadhus in a village in Palghar.  Representational Image/istock The incident took place at around 12.30 am on Thursday when three armed men barged …

In a rich tribute, five Indian peacekeepers who laid their lives will be honoured this week with a prestigious UN medal awarded posthumously for courage and sacrifice in the line of duty. In total, 83 military police and civilian personnel will be honoured during the ceremony.  Representational Image/unmissions.org Major Ravi Inder Singh Sandhu and Sergeant Lal Manotra Tarsem, who served …

Within a few days after resuming operations after a long halt due to the pandemic-induced lockdown, the Nokia factory in Tamil Nadu shut operations last week after several employees tested positive for COVID-19.  Nokia did not disclose how many workers at the plant in Sriperumbudur tested positive, but a source familiar with the matter said they were at least 42, …

The PIA plane was flying very “smoothly” but while attempting to land, it “jolted” thrice and then the pilot “adroitly lifted” the aircraft off the ground, only to crash moments later, recalls Muhammad Zubair, one of the two survivors of the crash.  Zubair was among 99 passengers aboard the PIA Airbus A-320 aircraft which crashed into a populated residential area …

Despite the government claiming that it is running enough buses and trains to ferry migrant workers back to their homes, the services still do not seem to reach the most vulnerable, forcing them to cover the journey on foot. A 40-year-old farm worker died of hunger and dehydration while walking from Pune to his village in Maharashtra’s Parbhani district, over …

It has been almost 19 years since the fatal 9/11 attacks that shook the United States. In a new development, the only man ever convicted in a US court for a role in the attacks has said that he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the Islamic State.  AP Zacarias Moussaoui is serving a life sentence at a federal prison in …

China allowed its people to travel abroad despite knowing the risk transmitting coronavirus, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has alleged. He also said that President Donald Trump will decide on the future course of action on penalising the country, as per a PTI report.  Pompeo’s comments came after Trump said that he does not want to talk to Xi …

An engineer of Indian origin is being charged by prosecutors with making fraudulent applications for over $10 million loans under USA’s COVID-19 relief programme, as per a report in IANS.   Shashank Rai “fraudulently pursued millions of dollars in loans intended for legitimate small businesses suffering the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic”, said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski when the …

The coronavirus pandemic has crippled life across the globe and brought upon one of the biggest health calamities in decades. It has overwhelmed even the best of healthcare systems and left them reeling.  As countries are scrapping to find the cure for the disease, there are serious concerns that the vaccine might not be universally available whenever there is one. …

US President Donald Trump abruptly left a press conference after getting into a heated argument with journalists, according to a TNN report.   Before the briefing ended, Trump took questions from a reporter for nearly 40 minutes, but he stormed out after engaging with Weijia Jiang from CBS and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.  When Jiang, who is of Chinese descent asked him …