Jamia Millia Islamia’s Dr Zakir Husain Library, which was damaged allegedly by Delhi Police in December last year, was reopened for students nearly after three months on Wednesday. The university said the library is now fully functional. Dr Zakir Husain Library, the central library of Jamia, was reopened after extensive renovation and face lifting, university …

A quaint town of Sikkim is set to introduce bamboo water bottles for tourists in a bid to completely stop the use of plastic water bottles and littering. Lachen, arguably the first town to completely ban packaged drinking water bottles, is introducing bamboo bottles as an alternative. Lachen draws lakhs of tourists each year for its snow-capped peaks and picturesque …

As Delhi gets back on its feet after days of deadly violence that left close to 50 dead and more than 250 injured earlier this week, those providing relief are facing a rather grave challenge. In northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar – one of the areas worst-hit by communal riots – goons are snatching away relief material and threatening those who …

Even as the national capital recovers from the deadly riots that unfolded earlier this week, anti-CAA protests are intensifying in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong. In fresh violence reported from the state, a group of unidentified people went on a stabbing spree in Shillong’s busiest market on February 28. The group attacked “non-indigenous” people, killing one and injuring nine. Indian Express reported …

As North-East Delhi has been engulfed by communal riots since February 23, residents of the national capital worked hard to not fall prey to those dividing communities on religious lines.  These, perhaps, are the worst riots, Delhi has witnessed in recent years with close to 20 people losing their lives and more than 150 being injured in clashes between anti …

A Pune godman has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman and molesting her four sisters, including two minors, on the pretext of conducting a ritual to help them conceive and find a “hidden treasure” in their house in Pimpri-Chindwad. The complaint was lodged on February 24. According to the complaint, the alleged abuse took place between January and February …

Heavy rain has flooded streets, uprooted trees, led to landslides and forced people to flee homes and look for shelter in Australia, in what could be described as freak weather after deadly bushfires destroyed forests and killed wildlife. Storms brought heavy rains and flooded the country’s bushfire-ravaged east. The cyclone was downgraded to a Category One storm on Sunday, after …

A Haridwar-based spiritual guru has threatened to kill himself if river Ganga is not cleaned in 10 days. Spiritual guru Gopidas announced on Friday that he will shoot himself dead after 10 days if the Centre and the state governments do not take steps to clean the river Ganga and protect the environment and ecology of the country. He told …

In one of the largest ever breach of financial data, credit and debit card details of nearly half a million Indians are up for sale.  The records of nearly half a million payment cards of Indian banks are being sold for $9 apiece on Joker’s Stash – one of the most popular underground cardshops – Singapore-based cyber security company Group-IB …

A Chinese woman managed to scare away a rapist by coughing and telling him that she has coronavirus and has just returned from Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel virus. The suspect, named by police as 25-year-old Xiao, broke into the victim’s bedroom last Friday night in the city of Jingshan near Wuhan, according to police, reported Daily Mail. Just …