- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
The Keonjhar district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha remained witness to a shocking incident this week when a woman, who survived a gang rape, alleged that she had to wait in a police vehicle for half a day for medical examination. The 37-year-old woman was taken in a…
The local police force where British prime minister Rishi Sunak filmed a social media video in a moving car without a seatbelt on Friday (20) fined him for the legal breach. Lancashire Police, which had been “looking into” the matter, confirmed it had issued a fixed penalty notice to Sunak,…
The Narendra Modi government has asked Twitter and YouTube to take down links of a BBC documentary on the riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 and Modi, who was the chief minister of the state then, reports have said quoting informed sources. A number of tweets…
A Goa-bound chartered flight from Moscow with 240 passengers on board was diverted to Uzbekistan in the wee hours of Saturday (21) after the authorities at the Dabolim airport in the state received an email, which claimed that there was a bomb on the plane, police said. This is the…
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's three-day visit to India next week is expected to deepen the "time-tested" partnership between the two countries, India's ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Saturday (21). The 68-year-old influential Arab leader is scheduled to visit India from January 24 to 26, during which he…
In a bizarre incident, India captain Rohit Sharma forgot for a moment the decision he had taken after winning the toss in the second one-day international (ODI) against New Zealand at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday (21).…
A crew member onboard the New York-New Delhi flight on November 26 last year had reported the incident of a drunk passenger urinating on a woman co-passenger, to top officials of the airline including its CEO Campbell Wilson, within hours of the flight's touchdown in the national capital. According to…
The Mumbai Police arrested a man for allegedly entering a mega rally attended by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in the city on Thursday (19), posing as an army personnel, sources in the police said on Saturday (21). The man, aged 35, is from Navi Mumbai and he was arrested…
Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, one of the first two American astronauts to walk on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, has got married again and this time, he did it on Friday (20), the day he turned 93. Aldrin took to Twitter on Saturday (21) to post pictures…
Seven people were injured in two explosions within a span of 15 minutes in Jammu on Saturday (21), sources said. The additional director general of police (Jammu zone) confirmed the explosions and injuries to six people. Hospital sources, however, said seven people were admitted with splinter injuries and all of…
