In a tragic accident, a school bus fell into the gorge in Himachal Pradesh leaving six children and driver of the bus dead. The accident took place around 8 am today in the state’s Sirmaur district. A private bus carrying students of DAV School, Renuka, fell into a gorge. Seven people — six schoolchildren and the …
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways revealed that nearly one of the four railway bridges in the country is either a century old or older which needs an upgrade citing the pressure on Indian railways. The increase in the number of pressures and plus the new heavier and faster trains put pressure on these old structures and unless the bridges …
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Businessman Vijay Mallya has finally been declared a ‘fugitive economic offender’ by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). It was back in November when ED submitted an application before a court requesting to declare Mallya, who is facing charges of financial irregularities, a fugitive under the Act. The embattled liquor baron has become the first person to be declared a ‘fugitive economic …
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The 106th Science Congress turned rather funny when a Tamil Nadu-based scientist, Kanan Jegathala Krishnan, made some bizarre comments about internationally accepted theories of physics. According to Krishnan, both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein made huge mistakes while solving the equations of physics. He claimed that modern physics is here for a brief time and it will completely be destroyed …
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REUTERS Businessman Vijay Mallya has finally been declared a ‘fugitive economic offender’ by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). It was back in November when ED submitted an application before a court requesting to declare Mallya, who is facing charges of financial irregularities, a fugitive under the Act. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) Yogi Claims No Riot …
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No matter how much the decision of demonetisation was criticised, Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that his announcement that shook the nation was not quite a ‘Jhatka’. This his first interview in 2019 The Pm told ANI that the decision might not have come to people as a surprise as they were warned several times. afp/Indian Express “This wasn’t a …
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Soldiers manning the Siachen glacier battle extreme cold weather. Temperatures there plummet to minus 60 degrees Celsius. The soldiers aren’t able to take a bath for almost 90 days when they are guarding the north-eastern border with China due to nail biting cold weather. Since they are posted at heights of up to 21,700 feet, water remains a luxury for …
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The Sree Ayyappa Swamy Temple in Sabarimala has opened for devotees after it was briefly shut for purification following the entry of two women in the santurom of the shrine earlier in the day. Kandararu Rajeevaru, the chief priest of the Sabarimala temple had shut the shrine for nearly a hour after consultation with the erstwhile royal family of Pandalam, …
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Jodhpur police have declared a doctor a ‘history-sheeter’ as he is accused of conducting more than 5,000 sex determination tests in the last seven years. Dr Mohammed Imtiyaz Rangrez, 41, who is a government doctor, was arrested for conducting sex-determination tests for the first time in 2016 when he was in charge of the Balesar community health centre. Sourced He …
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A 25-year-old woman from Egypt has been sent to three years in jail for sexually harassing a monkey. The woman, Basma Ahmed was charged with “inciting debauchery” and “committing an obscene act in public”. An Egyptian court has sentenced a 25-year-old woman to three years in prison after a video of the incident went viral on internet. She was arrested …
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