Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
A portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway here collapsed on Sunday morning, trapping 36 workers inside, officials said. The collapsed portion is located about 200 metres from the entrance of the tunnel, the SP said.
Israeli strikes pounded Gaza City overnight and into the day as ground forces battled Hamas militants near the territory's largest hospital, where health officials say thousands of medics, patients and displaced people are trapped with no electricity and dwindling supplies. Israel has vowed to end Hamas' 16-year rule in Gaza and crush its military capabilities, while blaming the militants for the war's heavy toll on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped in the besieged territory.
India has voted in favour of a United Nations resolution that condemns Israeli settlements in Palestine.
The death toll from the blasts that rocked a Christian religious gathering near here two weeks ago has risen to five, the Kerala government said. Presently, 17 people who were injured in the blasts are undergoing treatment in various hospitals here, the bulletin by a medical board constituted to treat those who were wounded in the incident said.
Two passengers died following a sudden jolt after a Delhi-bound train stopped as an overhead electric wire snapped in Jharkhand's Koderma district, East Central Railway officials said. The train was running at a speed of 130 kmph when the accident occurred.
A parliamentary committee has noted that the seven years' imprisonment prescribed in the proposed new criminal law for causing death by negligence is 'high' and it should be reduced to five years. According to the Section 104 (1) of the BNS, whoever causes the death of any person by any rash or negligent act, not amounting to culpable homicide, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term that may extend up to seven years, and shall also be liable to a fine.
India will probably have to wait for another three World Cups to have a shot at the title if they are not able to extend their dominant run in the ongoing edition, reckons Ravi Shastri. Shastri feels the current lot of bowlers is the best India have ever had.
Constitutional Court should avoid fixing a time-bound schedule for disposal of any case before any court unless the situation is extraordinary, the Supreme Court said while refusing to entertain a plea seeking a direction for disposal of a criminal matter within a fixed time. The top court was hearing a plea filed by Shaikh Uzma Feroz Hussain seeking a direction to the Maharashtra High Court to decide his bail plea in a time-bound manner.
A crew member from the Netflix drama 'Fauda' has been 'killed in action' in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and militant group Hamas. 'Fauda' has been criticised by a section of viewers for "whitewashing" the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The police sub-inspector accused of raping a minor girl in Rajasthan's Dausa district has been terminated from service and arrested after a case was registered against him under relevant sections, including the POCSO Act and the SC/ST Act, officials said. The police officer was detained and suspended on November 10.
