- Saturday, May 04, 2024
A UK court on Thursday (6) extended the custody of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is fighting extradition to India on charges over the nearly $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, until August 27. The Westminster Magistrates’ court in London held that the next…
With a highest single-day spike of 64,399 cases, India's COVID-19 tally zoomed past 21 lakh on Sunday, while the death toll climbed to 43,379 with 861 more fatalities, the Health Ministry said. The number of recoveries surged to 14,80,884 with record 53,879 more people recuperating in the past 24 hours,…
Dharma Productions’ next film with Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday, and Siddhant Chaturvedi, which was officially announced weeks before the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world, was set to begin production in the second quarter of the year. However, the team had to put their plans on hold due to the pandemic…
An Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 people onboard overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday in rainy conditions and went down 35 feet into a slope before breaking up into two pieces, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. He said 16 people lost their lives…
BRITISH AIRWAYS will operate multiple weekly relief flights between four Indian cities and London from August 17 as per a bilateral arrangement signed with the Indian government. The airline will operate five flights a week from Delhi and Mumbai to London Heathrow, and four weekly flights from Hyderabad and Bengaluru,.…
The death toll in the Air India Express flight crash at the airport here, rose to 18 on Saturday with one more passenger succumbing to injuries. Malappuram District Collector K Gopalakrishnan told reporters here that one more passenger had succumbed to injuries. Except one, all those who had perished in…
A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Friday (7), and rescue workers were searching for more than 50 people thought to be trapped under soil and debris, officials said. The landslide hit in the early hours…
There were 61,537 more novel coronavirus cases in India, taking the tally to 20,88,611 on Saturday, while the death toll rose to 42,518 with 933 more fatalities, the Health Ministry said. The number of recoveries surged to 14,27,005 and the recovery rate rose to 68.32 per cent, according to ministry…
FATALITIES were feared after a passenger jet carrying nearly 200 people from Dubai crash-landed at an airport in southern India on Friday (7) and broke in two, officials and reports said. The Air India Express jet crashed at Kozhikode airport in Kerala. The aircraft skidded off the runway at the airport upon…
Destruction of mangroves and unplanned constructions are responsible for flooding in Mumbai every year after heavy rains, say environment activists and town planners. Mangroves absorb excess water but they are being destroyed in Mumbai in the guise of infrastructure development, city-based environmentalist Debi Goenka told PTI. "Destruction of mangroves has…
