At least 22 passengers were killed after a bus plunged into a canal in Mandya district of Karnataka. The incident happened at VC canal of the Cauvery river in Kanaganamaradi village of the Pandavapura taluk. Most of the deceased are school students. According to the locals, the bus plunged in the canal around 12.25pm. The …
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Angry at not finding his seat ‘comfortable’, a passenger on board a Patna-bound SpiceJet flight (SG-379) from Pune ripped off the cushion of his seat minutes before take-off on Wednesday afternoon. No action was taken against him as the crew did not want to delay the flight. The engineering team put the cushion back and the flight took off on …
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Claiming that sharing details of alleged corruption complaints received against Union ministers, “may be a subjective as well as a cumbersome exercise”, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has refused to provide details of graft charges against ministers, which was sought under RTI. Replying to an RTI query, it said, the PMO receives many complaints against various Union ministers and high-level functionaries from …
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In a decision that would bring joy and relief to the Sikh community in India and Pakistan, the Indian government has decided to develop the Kartarpur corridor, which will help the pilgrims from Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district to the International Border. The corridor will give Sikh pilgrims from India easy access to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, …
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A Pakistani infant, who was diagnosed with a condition of a ‘giant heart’, got a new lease of life after undergoing an operation at a city hospital, doctors said on Wednesday. The 14-month-old baby, having a ‘complex and unusual heart disease’, was operated in 2016 at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) in Delhi. Dr Raja Joshi, chairman, paediatric cardiac surgery …
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The Measles-Rubella Vaccination (MR) campaign started in Meghalaya from September 24 onwards. A national drive which is aimed at eradicating measles and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by 2020, the scheme was targeted at children between 9 months and 15 years of age. Due to a very low turnout of parents along with their children for this national campaign, the Deputy …
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As more women come forward to report abandonment by NRI husbands, the latest information available with the women and child development ministry shows that the foreign ministry, over the last few months, has moved to revoke the passports of at least 25 men against whom lookout circulars (LOCs) were issued. This will result in extradition of those abroad and ensure …
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Are men being victimised in the ongoing #metoo campaign? At least, some men think like that. So, on the occasion of International Men’s Day some of them marched in the national capital seeking an end to what they see as a targeted attack on men during the campaign. Organised by a couple of men’s rights groups, named Save Family Foundation …
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been in news for a while after he met PM Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi. But now is facing massive criticism on his very own twitter for holding a placard which read “Smash Brahminical Patriarchy”. Dorsey was reportedly taking part in a roundtable with some women journalists, activists and writers and there he posed …
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The rainfall in Delhi NCR only did a little to improve the air quality of the area and it still floats between very bad and severe zone and on the top of that today there are roughly 5,000 marriages, which is likely to cause traffic jam across Delhi NCR. According to data released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), …
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