The Kerala High Court on Tuesday said the stampede during the Cochin University’s annual tech festival, which claimed four lives, was clearly due to “some failure” and “should never have happened”. Justice Devan Ramachandran said the cause of the incident must be found out so that measures can be put in place to prevent such…
The Kerala High Court has refused to allow the medical termination of a 30-week pregnancy of a 14-year-old girl, saying it was in an advanced stage. Justice Devan Ramachandran dismissed the petition for aborting the foetus filed by the girl’s mother and said it was not a case where the “victim child’s health was at…
An FIR has been registered against an unknown person after a video of a man drinking alcohol while sitting on the roof of a moving car in Gurugram surfaced on social media, police said on Tuesday. In a short video clip, an unidentified man is seen allegedly consuming liquor on top of his car amidst…
Seven labourers from Bihar were killed after a gigantic processing machine collapsed, trapping them under a heap of about 100 tonnes of corn at a godown of a private food processing unit in Aliyabad industrial area here, police said on Tuesday. The Karnataka government has announced a compensation of Rs 7 lakh each to the…
Hamas drugged Israeli hostages before freeing them, “to make them look happy,” a Health Ministry official told a Knesset panel on Tuesday. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry’s medical division, testified to the Knesset Health Committee that the captives were given a tranquilizer which she identified as Clonazepam sometime before they were handed over…
The Supreme Court Tuesday sought data on the beneficiaries of section 6A of the Citizenship Act in Assam, saying there was no material before it which could indicate that the effect of granting Indian citizenship to Bangladeshi immigrants between 1966 and 1971 was so great that it impacted the demographic and cultural identity of the…
Ramesh Mendola, a newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, on Tuesday lodged a police complaint here claiming that unidentified persons have circulated a morphed picture of his on social media for tarnishing his image. The picture showed Ramesh Mendola, who won the election from Indore-2 seat with the biggest margin in Madhya Pradesh, holding a nameplate…
Ramesh Mendola, a newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, on Tuesday lodged a police complaint here claiming that unidentified persons have circulated a morphed picture of his on social media for tarnishing his image. The picture showed Ramesh Mendola, who won the election from Indore-2 seat with the biggest margin in Madhya Pradesh, holding a nameplate…
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