Vin Diesel accused of sexual assault by ex-assistant
Fast and Furious star Vin Diesel has been accused of sexually assaulting his assistant in an Atlanta hotel room over a decade ago. According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Thursday, Asta Jonasson claims that the actor committed sexual...
Terrorists fire at Army vehicle in Poonch
Terrorists fired at an Army vehicle carrying some jawans in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. The attack took place in the Thanamandi area of the district. There was no immediate report of any casualty, the officials said. Additional forces...
JN1 Covid has low public health risk: Experts
The emergence of the JN.1 Covid variant and India reporting 21 cases is neither surprising nor particularly worrying, say scientists while allaying fears but also advising adherence to existing precautionary measures. The announcement on Wednesday about the increasing numbers...
300 Covid cases in Kerala, 3 deaths
Kerala reported 300 new active cases of COVID-19 and 3 deaths on December 20, as per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The total number of active cases of Covid-19 in the country stood at 2,669. Amid rising concerns...
No plan for mandatory Covid testing at airports now, say govt sources
There is no plan so far to make RT-PCR testing for COVID-19 mandatory at airports for travellers, Union health ministry sources said on Thursday, amid an uptick in coronavirus infections in India. Even though the number of cases is rising and...
Sonia, Kharge, Adhir invited to Ram Temple consecration ceremony
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and party leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have received invitations for the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22. Sources said the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust sent...
Shinde intervened after Fadnavis letter on Malik
Breaking his silence over his colleague Devendra Fadnavis's open letter over Nawab Malik, Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde intervened to defuse the issue. Fadnavis wrote to Pawar earlier this month saying the Bharatiya...
One JN1 case in Maha, govt says don’t panic
Amid rising Covid cases in the state attributed to the new sub-strain JN.1, Maharashtra Health Minister, Tanaji Sawant has advised people to not panic saying that the healthcare system of the state was fully prepared and geared to deal with...
Tomar elected speaker of Madhya Pradesh assembly
Former Union minister and senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Singh Tomar was unanimously elected as the speaker of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly on Wednesday. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav moved a proposal for Tomar as the speaker...
Govt holds high-level meet as Covid cases spike
The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in India and the preparedness of the public health system for surveillance, containment and management of COVID-19...
RS proceedings adjourned twice amid opposition protest
Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 11:30 am on Wednesday amid protests by opposition members over the Parliament security breach issue. As the House met again at 11:15 am, the protests by opposition members continued. Earlier when the House...
Three Covid deaths in Kerala, 341 cases in India
Kerala reported 292 fresh COVID-19 infections and three deaths due to the disease in the last 24 hours, according to data on the Union Health Ministry website on Wednesday. Of the 341 COVID infections reported nationwide till 8 am...
Suspended MPs can’t enter Parl lobby, gallery
After the suspension of 141 MPs -- 95 from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha -- the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a circular for the suspended MPs, barring them from entering the Parliament chamber, lobby and galleries. "As a result,...
Death toll in China’s earthquake rises to 131
The death toll in the powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted a mountainous region of northwestern China late Monday night has risen to 131, local authorities said on Wednesday. A total of 113 people were killed in the Gansu, while...
SpiceJet shares jump nearly 8%
Shares of SpiceJet on Tuesday jumped nearly 8 per cent in intra-day trade after the company said it has expressed interest to acquire Go First and plans to submit its offer after carrying out due diligence of the bankrupt carrier....
Gadkari’s recipe for reducing vehicle pollution
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the country needs 1,000 vehicle scrapping centres and 400 automated fitness test centres. Launching 'DigiELV', Gadkari said the road ministry has so far approved 85 vehicle scrapping facilities across the...
6.2-magnitude earthquake kills 111 in China
At least 111 people were killed when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck an ethnic county in northwest China's Gansu and neighbouring Qinghai province on midnight Monday, the local earthquake relief headquarters said. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the...
Dawood Ibrahim poisoned in Pakistan? Admitted to hospital in Karachi
Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has reportedly been hospitalised in Pakistan's Karachi. Speculations suggest that he has been taken to hospital due to poisoning. Although Pakistan has not officially confirmed it yet. Several reports are suggesting that Dawood Ibrahim is...
Not old, can still straighten some people out: Sharad Pawar
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has said he has not grown old and still has the power to 'straighten some people out'. Speaking at a bullock-cart race at Charkoli in Pune's Haveli tehsil on Sunday, Pawar said, "I have...
Oil trapped inside Chennai’s creek, nil egress: ICG
In the matter of oil spillage, the Coast Guard on Sunday said the oil spill is trapped inside the Ennore creek area here and there is 'nil' egress. Coast Guard ships and helicopters immediately responded to the spill on...
Tension in Bihar after temple staff’s body surfaces
Tension erupted in Gopalganj district of Bihar on Sunday after the body of a local temple staff, who went missing a week ago, was found in a mutilated condition on the outskirts of a village, the police said. The...
