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In July 2017, a bus that carried 60 pilgrims was returning from Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir after the devotees visited the shrine. After 8 pm in the evening, the bus reached Batengoo in Amarnath district. Over here, the pilgrims were shocked as a group of militants attacked the bus and started firing indiscriminately. Eight …

Indian Air Force’s transport chopper fleet is getting a booster shot this March. A contract for the Mi-17 V5 helicopters is set to be signed soon. “Negotiations with the Indian side on the delivery of 48 Mi-17V-5 helicopters have been completed; we expect to sign the corresponding contract in the first quarter of 2018,” CEO of Russia’s Rostec State Corporation, …

A woman had to deliver a stillborn child because she was denied admission into a government hospital in Macherla, Andhra Pradesh. But this isn’t the first such incident in the East Indian state. The statistics of last three month are more appalling. A total of 2,466 infants have died between October to December 2017 in the state. Not a huge …

An unconventional coaching centre in Gaya town is making waves for all the good reasons. Students from remote villages of Maoist-hit districts of Bihar have made it to top engineering institutes over the past few years, all because of this coaching institute. Bright students from underprivileged families of Gaya and neighbouring districts of Magadh region prepare for tests like JEE …

Even as crimes against women catch the media limelight, there remain a sizable number of men who are victims of violence by their female spouses, forced to bear the abuse with a smile and a grin. With no recourse. According to Dial 100, men are increasingly speaking out. The emergency hotline gets on an average at least one complaint from …

Social media has taken over our lives more than we can imagine. Be it telling people what we eat to who we love and who we hate, the online domain rules our lives completely. While this is okay if everyone thought alike, but sometimes posting things someone does not like can lead to extreme circumstances – like divorce. Sometimes, even …

Peeved at their confrontational stance towards the BJP brass and the government at the Centre, RSS is planning to remove VHP international working president Pravin Togadia and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay. VHP international president Raghav Reddy, too, is on the Sangh’s ‘sack’ list. Sources said senior RSS functionaries were unhappy at the way the three had being …

India on Thursday morning test-fired its Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in its final operational configuration from the Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast, taking another step forward toward its eventual induction into the Strategic Forces Command (SFC). There was no immediate word on whether the first “user-trial” of the nuclear-capable Agni-V missile, which can even reach the northern-most …

The Swacch Bharat Abhiyan has led to a huge difference in many states of the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative has asked people to observe cleanliness and make sure that the garbage never becomes a part of our lives in any manner. representational image / bccl Following this initiative, the Madhya Pradesh government has claimed to have become the …

Among the many who lost their family members in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, was Moshe Holtzberg, the Israeli child who lost his parents and was known across the world as ‘Baby Moshe’. He was just two years old when his nanny took him away to safety from the side of his dead parents at Chabad House. Moshe is now …