The Kerala government on Monday, 12 September, took into possession a part of the poramboku land (area not assessed by the revenue department) from Kapico Kerala Resorts Private Limited, thus facilitating the demolition of a seven-star resort worth Rs 200 crore in Alappuzha district for violating Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules. Jump To Why is …
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A major bomb scare at the Leela Hotel in Ambience Mall in Gurugram on Tuesday ended with an unexpected climax after the police identified the person who made the threat call. The call was traced to a hospital in Gurugram and the caller turned out to be a 25-year-old with autism. BCCL According to the police, the youth who has …
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The number of people becoming victims of modern-day slavery is on the rise around the world, a new report has said. The Global Estimates of Modern Slavery published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and international human rights group Walk Free showed that some 50 million people lived in modern slavery on any given day …
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As the second wave of Covid-19 hits the country very badly, the Covid-19 vaccination drive opened for all persons above 18 years of age from May 1. Many states announced free vaccination for all people above the age of 18. Here’s how people across the country taking vaccine against Covid-19: <img src="https://im.indiatimes.in/photogallery/2021/May/1bccl_6092734a734da.jpg's Kohinoor public parking, Dadar in Mumbai. In the …
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The snowstorm brought unprecedented problems in the southeastern United States, and the most difficult situation is in Texas, where a large number of people froze on the streets. Millions of people have to live in the blackout, panic in the cold, when the state of Texas, US is experiencing an unprecedented snowstorm in history. Some 2.5 million people are still …
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As the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s another tragedy that’s unavoidable. In Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra, hundreds of houses were damaged on Saturday due to torrential rains and strong winds, uprooted trees and disrupted power supply for hours. Life in the coastal areas was disrupted due to Cyclonic storm Tauktae in the sea. Trees were uprooted at …
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For nearly a year, the whole planet has been held hostage by the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite getting vaccines, cases are still increasing by the day. The deadly disease has now crossed another grim milestone over 123,000,000 infections worldwide, while the death toll has surged past 27,00,000, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report. But our leaders who were supposed …
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According to Economic Times, India has quietly commissioned its secretive nuclear missile tracking vessel that had been under construction since 2014. Once the vessel is commissioned, India will be the only country outside the P-5 – the US, the UK, China, Russia and France – to have this capability. Here’s all you need to know about the Indian Navy’s new …
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The redevelopment project of the Central Vista – the power corridor of the country – envisages many new things from a new triangular Parliament building, which aims to redevelop a 3.2-km stretch called the Central Vista that lies at the heart of Lutyens Delhi built by the Britishers in the 1930s. It is an ambitious project of the Narendra Modi-led …
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A cargo container ship that’s among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal, officials said, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship that carries trade between Asia and Europe, became grounded Tuesday in the narrow, man-made waterway …
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