Teenager killed after being hit by train while shooting video near railway tracks in Puri

Teenager killed after being hit by train while shooting video near railway tracks in Puri

A 15-year-old boy died after being hit by a speeding train while attempting to shoot an Instagram reel near a railway track in Odisha’s Puri district, police said on Wednesday (October 22, 2025). The deceased from Manglaghat area in Puri town, was trying to capture a moving train in the background of his video when … Read more

OP services hit as govt. doctors stage protest in Kozhikode

OP services hit as govt. doctors stage protest in Kozhikode

**EDS: TO GO WITH STORY** Kozhikode: A man looks at a notice pasted outside the closed OPD ticket counter at a hospital, amid a strike by doctors across Kerala after a doctor was attacked at a government-run hospital, in Kozhikode, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (PTI Photo)(PTI10_09_2025_000305B) | Photo Credit: – Kozhikode Outpatient (OP) services at … Read more

Updated Orange Book suggests curbs on new constructions in areas hit by landslips in the 2018 floods

Updated Orange Book suggests curbs on new constructions in areas hit by landslips in the 2018 floods

A landslide hazard susceptibility map prepared by the Geological Survey of India (GSI).   After a delay of over two months, the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) has issued the updated Orange Book 2025, the monsoon preparedness and disaster-response guidelines for various State and Central agencies. The major highlight of this year’s Orange Book … Read more

Bus services hit as transport workers begin strike across Karnataka, passengers stranded

Bus services hit as transport workers begin strike across Karnataka, passengers stranded

Passengers seen at Basaveshwaranagar in Bengaluru on August 5, 2025 | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Employees of Karnataka’s State-owned transport Corporations began an indefinite strike on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) morning, severely affecting public bus services across the State and leaving passengers in the lurch. The unions went ahead with the strike despite a court … Read more

Vehicle that fatally hit marathoner Fauja Singh identified, driver to be arrested soon: Punjab cops

Vehicle that fatally hit marathoner Fauja Singh identified, driver to be arrested soon: Punjab cops

The vehicle which fatally hit the world’s oldest marathoner Fauja Singh in Punjab’s Jalandhar district has been identified and the driver of the vehicle, an SUV, will be arrested soon, police said on Tuesday (July 15, 2025). Fauja Singh was 114, and the ironies could not be more tragic for the legend who got into … Read more

Construction of flyover near Sarna Sthal: Tribal outfits hit streets to enforce bandh in Jharkhand’s Ranchi; admin on alert

Construction of flyover near Sarna Sthal: Tribal outfits hit streets to enforce bandh in Jharkhand’s Ranchi; admin on alert

The protestors were seen burning tyres and blocking roads, mainly on the outskirts of Ranchi. | Photo Credit: PTI Activists of various tribal outfits hit the streets on Saturday morning (March 22, 2025) to enforce an 18-hour bandh in Jharkhand‘s capital Ranchi to protest against the construction of a flyover near the Sarna Sthal, a … Read more