Heavy rains in the last three days triggered flash floods in parts of Bihar, where 41 people have died so far, and inundated large areas in Assam and Noth Bengal, paralysing normal life and snapping rail link to the Northeast from the rest of the country. In Arunachal Pradesh too, the flood situation continued to be grim in several districts ...

Deepika Padukone, who was nominated at the Teen Choice Awards in the category of choice action movie actress, lost the trophy to “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot. Padukone, 31, was nominated for her Hollywood debut “xXx: Return of Xander Cage”, which also starred Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose and Samuel L Jackson. Even, her “Bajirao Mastani” co-star Priyanka Chopra could not ...

Nearly 600 tourists, including 200 Indians, have been stranded in central Nepal’s popular tourist district Chitwan due to flooding triggered by heavy rains that have claimed 49 lives, officials said today. Heavy rains have lashed Nepal for the past three days causing flooding and landslides at several places in the Himalayan country. The swollen Rapti river flooded several hotels in ...

Four soldiers and three civilians have gone missing after a cloudburst hit the Mangta Nala region of Uttarakhand on Monday. Three bodies have also been recovered in Malpa. Kailash Mansarovar Yatra has been halted due to the floods and landslide caused by the cloudburst on the route. Two bridges were damaged in Mangti and one in Simkhola districts of Uttarakhand. ...

The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government locked horns with the Centre over how to celebrate Independence Day on August 15 in schools across the state. The state government instructed schools to ignore a directive issued earlier by the human resources development ministry asking education institutions to follow a centre- prescribed format for I-D celebration. The state government took the stand ...

Principal of the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur Dr Rajeev Mishra, who was suspended following the death of 30 infants within a span of 48 hours since August 10, today resigned from the post. Confirming the resignation of Mishra from the post of the BRD medical college principal, UP Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh said, “Yes, he has ...

US President Donald Trump has again issued a stern warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong- Un, saying he will “truly regret” any hostile acts against any American territory or ally. He warned that the US will take action against Kim’s regime “if he utters one threat, in the form of an overt threat which, by the way, he has ...

Militants opened fire on an Army camp in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, injuring a jawan, police said today. The militants fired at the Army building in Kalaroos area during the night, a police official said. Sunil Randhawa of the 17 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) was injured in the incident. The injured was taken to an Army ...

One person was killed and three others were injured after a vehicle that they were travelling in fell into a 200-meters deep ditch on Rikholi-Mussoorie road, about 25km from Dehradun, in the wee hours of Friday. The four worked in an NGO together and were on their way to Mussoorie in an SUV when the accident took place around 3:30am. ...

The Supreme Court today decided to hold the final hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute from December 5 and made it clear that no adjournment shall be given in any circumstance. The apex court, after an intense deliberation for more than one-and-half-hours, reached a consensus on commencement of the hearing on the cross-appeals filed against the 2010 judgement ...