The incident occurred on Pyare Lal Road in Regarpura, central Delhi at around 11.15am, when labourers were demolishing an old structure. (IANS) NEW DELHI: A labourer died while three others suffered injuries when a two-storey building collapsed during demolition work carried out by a private contractor in the Karol Bagh area on Friday, news agency…
Rahul Gandhi stages dharna over pellet injury FIR; Revanth Reddy’s US visit denied clearance Delhi Police registered an FIR over student protester Sahil Lochab’s alleged pellet-gun injury during the July 20 Jantar Mantar protest, after Rahul Gandhi staged a sit-in demanding action. MEA denied political clearance for Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy’s proposed US visit,…
Swiss tourist Luzian Andrin Zgraggen. (AP Photo) A Swiss tourist has been sentenced to one year in prison in Bali for mocking the Hindu festival Nyepi, also known as the Day of Silence, after posting videos on Instagram showing himself violating restrictions during the sacred observance.Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26, was found guilty by the Denpasar…
The youth continued moving along the dangerous edge despite the appeals. (Visuals -Social Media) CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: An attempt by a couple to prevent their 18-year-old son from jumping off a dangerous cliff at Khavyda Dongar ended in tragedy on Friday, resulting in the deaths of all three family members after they plunged into a deep…
BJP-SAD alliance buzz has grown ahead of next year’s assembly polls. NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday said that people in Punjab want his party to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party for the upcoming polls.Majithia cited Punjab’s status as a border state and the need to protect…
Oil products now account for a much larger share of India’s exports to several destinations. India’s oil-products export map is expanding and the country is fast emerging as an important ‘swing supplier’ in the world’s refined fuel markets as the Middle East crisis continues to disrupt flows.As TOI recently reported, Singapore has become India’s third-largest…
CJP alleges BJP ‘attacked’ them over buffalo shed school inspection; BJP MLA says “no use of cockroach inside a house.” NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s attempt to inspect a government school in Rajasthan triggered a political storm after party members alleged they were attacked while trying to visit a school they claimed had been…
Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “man in the arena” passage remains one of his most enduring reflections on courage, effort and failure. In his 1910 speech “Citizenship in a Republic”, delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, Roosevelt said: “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and…
How could Nick Kyrgios’ failed drug test affect his tennis career? The full suspension and career fallout explained(Getty) Darryl Strawberry has urged people not to write off Nick Kyrgios after the tennis star tested positive for cocaine. The former MLB star, who faced his own struggles with drug abuse during his baseball career, believes Kyrgios…
Deepender Hooda had posted a tribute on the death of ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar. NEW DELHI: Punjab Congress leaders on Friday sought to distance the party’s state unit from Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda’s remarks describing former party MP and 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar as a “role model nationwide”. The leaders said the…