Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
As many as 38 passengers were killed after a bus carrying them plunged around 200 meters down a steep slope near the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. A rescue operation has been launched and some bodies have been retrieved.
Israeli troops entered Gaza's biggest hospital and were searching its rooms and basement, witnesses said, culminating a siege that caused global alarm after what Israel said was a deadly clash at the gates. World attention has been focused on the fate of hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced civilians trapped inside.
Operations to rescue 40 labourers trapped under a collapsed tunnel's debris in Uttarkashi for the last three days have been hampered after a landslide at the site and technical issues in a drilling machine being used to create an escape passage, officials said. Workers, family members and others held a protest outside the under-construction tunnel at Silkyara over the delay in rescuing labourers trapped inside for the last three days. A heavy drilling machine was airlifted from Delhi to replace the 'failed' equipment which was being used earlier to create a passage for the workers.
The poisonous haze blanketing Delhi thickened with the air quality standing close to the 'severe' category amid unfavourable meteorological conditions. According to IQAir, a Swiss company that specialises in air quality monitoring, Delhi was the most polluted city in the world on November 14, followed by Dhaka, Lahore and Mumbai.
Reiterating his party's demand for a caste census, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the day the Other Backward Classes, Dalits and tribals learn about their actual population, the 'country will change forever.' While Congress governments waive the loans of farmers, the BJP-led Union government waives the loans of 'big industrialists like Adani', Gandhi alleged.
The undistributed funds totalling over Rs 25,000 crore lying with the capital markets regulator Sebi's account have come back into focus after the demise of Sahara Group's chief Subrata Roy. Roy and two other directors, Ravi Shankar Dubey and Ashok Roy Choudhary, were arrested for failure of the for failure of the group's two companies -- Sahara India Real Estate Corporation (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corp Ltd (SHICL) -- to comply with the court's August 31, 2012 order to return Rs 25,000 crore to their investors.
Star India batter Virat Kohli became the highest scorer in a single edition of a World Cup, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar (673 runs in 2003) during India's semifinal against New Zealand. Kohli reached the landmark when he worked Kiwis pacer Lockie Ferguson to square leg for a double, moving from 98 to 100.
Delhi Police has questioned a 19-year-old youth from Bihar in connection with a deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna that was widely circulated on social media recently, officials said. On November 10, an FIR was registered under sections 465 (punishment for forgery) and 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 66C and 66E of the Information Technology Act at the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) Unit of the Delhi Police's Special Cell.
A 10-year-old boy was killed in a monkey attack in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat, police and forest officials said. "His intestine was ripped out in the attack. He rushed to his house and was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival. This is the third attack by monkeys in the village within a week," an official said.
Mumbai-based author Ranjit Hoskote has quit the Finding Committee for the upcoming Documenta art festival in Germany, following criticism for signing a letter that compared Zionism and Hindu nationalism. Hoskote’s resignation follows an article published in Germany’s daily Süddeutsche Zeitung on November 9, accusing him of 'BDS sympathies and anti-Semitism,' based on his signing of a 2019 BDS petition against a far-right event on 'Zionism and Hindutva,' co hosted by the Consulate General of Israel in Mumbai.
