Balakot is earthquake prone area and their residents are quite accustomed to the shifting of the tectonic plates and the IAF’s strike did woke them in the middle of the night thinking that nature has asked for the mandatory attendance. The sleepy town in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was devastated in 2005 earthquake with Kashmir …

India’s fastest train Vande Bharat Express has been in news for a while and once again it came in the news after it was pelted with stones near Tundla in Uttar Pradesh. A glass window was damaged in the incident and this has happened for the third time when stones are pelted at Vande Bharat Express. The stones were pelted …

The fire at Hotel Arpit Palace claimed 17 lives and left scores with burn injuries, but apart from devastating many lives associated with those 17 and leaving many others with burn marks to live with forever, the accidents puts many questions before India as a nation and Delhi in particular.  Months ago, another fire tragedy had left 14 people in …

In a case of massive negligence, a Hyderabad woman had to face excruciating pain in her abdomen and the subsequent x-ray revealed that a pair of surgical forceps were left by doctors inside her abdomen in last surgery she had undergone in December last year. The negligence had taken place at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), a state-run …

When Flight Lieutenant Abhijit Gadgil died in MiG 21 crash in 2001 in Sutagarh, Rajasthan, his parents Captain Anil Gadgil and Kavita were devastated. But what shocked them was that their son was blamed for the crash and not the plane which even then was called the ‘flying coffin’. Captain Anil Gadgil Spatial disorientation was later cited as the reason …

The “Ten threats to global health in 2019” list released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) certainly seeks attention from all country, but India in particular needs to get at work if at all, it wants its large population which is already vulnerable to almost all hazards to remain unaffected by these threats. There are seven threats that India needs to take …

Already behind bars for 20 years in the rape case of two of his followers, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a Sirsa journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati by the special court in Panchkula Today.  He was convicted on January 11 by Special CBI Court Judge Jagdeep Singh, along …

Indian wrestlers have achieved several milestones in the last one decade. Medals at major world wrestling events show the development and professionalism of Indian wrestlers over the years.   Whether it was Sakshi Malik’s picture on the shoulders of her coach – after she won an Olympic bronze in Rio – or Vinesh Phogat’s marathon run for gold at recently concluded …

As India is debating the onslaught of emergency in 1975, which is undisputedly the darkest period in the history of the country since its independence. For 21 months, the country with almost 80 crore people ran on the whims and fancies of two Gandhis – Indira and her political heir Sanjay Gandhi.  PM Indira Gandhi announcing the national emergency AIR studios …

With the US leaving the United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) calling it “An organization that is not worthy of its name,” the world has seen another US pull out after the Paris Climate Summit and Iran nuclear deal. The US left the UNHRC in wake of continuous criticism of its ally Israel for allegedly violating human rights by killing Palestinians …