Metro Railway services were disrupted Wednesday due to a breakdown in power supply to a Kavi Subhash-bound rake, shortly after its departure from Dum Dum station. Passengers of the train, which halted on the tracks at 1 pm, were immediately evacuated and escorted back to the platform at Dum Dum station by the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Kolkata Police and ...

Bihar Governor Lalji Tandon escaped unhurt after a fire broke out at a tent located on the Kumbh Mela campus here, fire officials said Wednesday. The fire, which started at around 2:30 am from a tent at Triveni Shankul in Arail area, where the Governor was also staying, soon engulfed two other nearby tents, said Pramod Kumar Sharma, the chief ...

Sundarbans — the iconic Bengal tiger’s last coastal stronghold and the world’s biggest mangrove forest — could be destroyed by climate change and rising sea levels over the next 50 years, scientists say. Spanning more than 10,000 square kilometres, the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India is the biggest mangrove forest on Earth, and also the most critical area for ...

Shraddha Kapoor is coming back to the “Baaghi” franchise. The actress has been cast as the female lead opposite Tiger Shroff in the series’ third film. The film marks the actress’s return who starred in the first installment “Baaghi” in 2016. Shraddha said she is looking forward to the film. “I’m super excited to be back with the ‘Baaghi’ family. ...

India and China are leading the global greening effort, which is quite contrary to the general perception worldwide, a latest NASA study said Monday, observing that the world is a greener place than it was 20 years ago. The NASA study based on data received and analysed from its satellite said that India and China are leading in greening on ...

At least 17 people were killed as a massive fire swept through a hotel in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area early Tuesday, police said. The fire broke out at Arpit Palace Hotel located on Gurudwara Road in Karol Bagh. A call about the fire was received at 4.35 am and 24 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, a senior ...

The Parliamentary panel on Information Technology has summoned the head of microblogging site Twitter to appear before it on February 25, the committee’s chairman Anurag Thakur said on Monday. Committee members took a serious note about the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey not appearing before it on Monday. While representatives from Twitter’s India office reached the meeting venue here, they were ...

You must heard the true incidents of reunion of children in the Kumbh Mela, and such stories will also be seen in the movies, but the dense fog can also divide the two brothers, even for the whole 10 years. You would be surprised to know this, but this complete 100 percent is true. A case of brothers being separated ...

Rajya Sabha was adjourned Monday till 2 PM as Congress and TDP members trooped into the Well of the House seeking to raise various issues. Two bills were introduced before Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House. Several opposition members, including from TMC and Congress, protested as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj introduced the ‘The Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident ...

Trade relations between India and the UK is not likely to be affected after Brexit, British trade commissioner to South Asia Crispin Simon has said. “Bilateral trade between Britain and India stands at USD 25 billion. India is an important trading partner and after Brexit, it is not to be affected”, Simon told PTI. Britain had been allowed to establish ...