Facebook A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who have died after apparently drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. The family of Holly Bowles, 19, said it was with “broken hearts” that they confirmed her death, more than a week after she fell ill in … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha meets with the family members of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Humayun Bhat, who lost his life in the Anantnag encounter, at his residence, in Srinagar on September 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI The operation to flush out terrorists holed up in the … Read more
Women’s wing of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) stage a protest near the ‘Wall of Remembrance’ erected to honor lives lost during the ongoing ethnic violence in the State, in Churachandpur, on July 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Manipur Police has arrested a sixth person in connection with the May 4 parading of … Read more
Protesters have been camping in tents after blocking a 1-km stretch of NH-21 near Arauda village since April 21. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Jaipur-Agra national highway remained blocked in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, as protesters demanding 12% separate reservation for a group of Other Backward Class (OBC) … Read more
Former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, now the sixth general secretary of the AIADMK, seen in Chennai on Tuesday | Photo Credit: RAGU R Edappadi K. Palaniswami, who assumed charge as general secretary of the AIADMK on Saturday, is the sixth person to hold the post. Former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who died in December 2016, … Read more
A 50-year-old man, suspected to have helped the accused in the ATM robberies in Tiruvannamalai, was arrested from his hideout in Karnataka on Tuesday. Police also seized a container lorry from the suspect. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A 50-year-old man, suspected to have helped the mastermind behind the ATM robberies in Tiruvannamalai on February … Read more
Social reformist Sonam Wangchuk does yoga during his five-day climate fast to “save Ladakh” in Phyang. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: Ladakhi innovator and engineer Sonam Wangchuk completed his five-day “climate fast”, in an effort to draw the attention of Indian leaders to the region’s fragile ecology and to secure its protection … Read more
July 8, 2021 — Humans have a sixth sense that most of us aren’t using, but could learn to. Some people who are blind have already figured out how to tap into this, in much the same way dolphins navigate underwater and bats find their way in pitch darkness. And it is only a … Read more
Cases are people who have tested positive for coronavirus. Public health bodies may occasionally revise their case numbers. Case rate by age only available for England. *The “average area” means the middle ranking council or local government district when ranked by cases per 100,000 people. The case rate chart shows how many people have tested … Read more