Three people were injured, one critically, on Sunday when a concrete slab being laid on the Lucknow Metro Rail route caved in, police said. The concrete slab collapsed at Sujanpura near the Alambagh bus station, said the police. The injured, said to be labourers, have been admitted to a nearby hospital, where condition of one […]
At least 41 people were killed as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Ecuador, the media reported on Sunday. The toll from Saturday’s earthquake has risen to 41, Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas said on Sunday. It will “unfortunately rise in the coming hours.” The government has declared a nationwide state of […]
His remark on “intolerance” in India propelled many political parties and social media users to speak against him. Calling it an “obscurantist issue”, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says it’s not good to question his nationality as he feels there is “no patriot greater than me” in the country. Shah Rukh said at an event […]
India’s top IT company Tata Consultancy Services has been fined $940-million by a US Federal Court in Wisconsin for allegedly stealing software information. The Indian company said it intended to appeal against the verdict in higher courts. Besides the punitive damages of $700 million, the US Federal Court of the Western District of Wisconsin has […]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday visited curfew-bound Handwara town to take stock of the situation even as the central government has decided to send more paramilitary forces to the state – on the boil for four days over civilian killings by security forces. Mehbooba Mufti was accompanied by state Deputy Chief […]
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and its White House candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on Friday sued Arizona state on behalf of several voters who waited up to six hours to cast their ballots in the March primaries. The lawsuit was filed in a Phoenix federal court on Friday representing seven voters who had […]
The death of two Indian girl students in a Russian medical college hostel fire and that of a medical student from Srinagar in a Russian city will figure External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s trip to Moscow on April 18. “I am going to Moscow. The final investigation report into fire tragedy in which we lost […]
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) — an expandable habitat crucial for future deep space exploration — will be removed from the back of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship on Saturday before installation on the Tranquility module that begins on early Sunday. However, the expansion of the new habitat module would not occur until late […]
The president of the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) here has paid glowing tributes to the memory of B.R. Ambedkar for the role he played in drafting of the Indian constitution, which set the stage for the campaign against all forms of discrimination in the country. “Ambedkar’s life is an inspirational story of achievement to […]
Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders released his 2014 tax returns which showed that he and his wife had a total household income of $205,617. Sanders released the tax return on Friday, a day after being challenged to do so by Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton at Thursday’s debate in Brooklyn, which came after Clinton was questioned about […]