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CBI begins investigation into Balasore train accident

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:35:22 S O Correspondent

“31 passengers from West Bengal still missing”: CM Mamata Banerjee on Odisha triple train accident

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:34:29 S O Correspondent

Over 100 dead bodies remain unclaimed after Indian rail disaster

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:30:27 S O Correspondent

Depression over Arabian Sea likely to intensify into cyclonic storm: IMD

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:47:54 S O Correspondent

A depression over the southeast Arabian Sea, south of Porbandar in Gujarat, is likely to move northwestward and intensify into a cyclonic storm, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday. In a bulletin, the Met office said the depression lay about 920 km west-southwest of Goa, 1,120 km south-southwest of Mumbai, 1,160 km south of Porbandar and 1,520 km south of Karachi, Pakistan, at 5:30

Wrestlers protest: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal predicts 'no arrest', 'wishy-washy' chargesheet

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:48:16 S O Correspondent

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday attacked the government amid the wrestlers' demand for action against outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, predicting that the BJP MP would not be arrested and a "wishy-washy" chargesheet would be filed, and then he would be granted bail.

India can reduce pollution by 40 pc by not using fossil fuels: Gadkari

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:43:41 S O Correspondent

India can reduce its pollution by over 40 per cent by not using fossil fuels like petrol and diesel, while the country imports crude oil worth Rs 16 lakh crore every year, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.

Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari gets life term for 1991 murder

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:11:02 S O Correspondent

A court in Varanasi on Monday sentenced gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment for the murder of Awadhesh Rai, the brother of a Congress leader, more than 30 years ago.

Sisodia fails to get relief, HC rejects interim bail plea in money laundering case

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:53:08 S O Correspondent

In a fresh setback for AAP leader Manish Sisodia, the Delhi High Court on Monday refused to grant him interim bail in a money laundering case arising from the alleged excise policy scam, to attend to his ailing wife, in view of the “extremely serious” allegations against him and the possibility of “evidence tampering”.

India, US firm up ambitious roadmap for defence industrial cooperation

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:51:41 S O Correspondent

India and the US on Monday firmed up an ambitious roadmap for defence industrial cooperation to accord high priority to various projects for the co-development of military platforms and hardware, a move that comes against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict and China’s increasing muscle-flexing in the Indo-Pacific region.

2020 Delhi riots: Court adjourns case with warning to prosecution

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:49:39 S O Correspondent

A court hearing a case related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots has warned the prosecution not to repeat the scenario of the public prosecutor not making sufficient arrangements for the examination of a crucial witness in his absence.

CBI meant to investigate crimes, not railway accidents: Kharge to PM Modi on Odisha rail tragedy

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:47:16 S O Correspondent

A day after the Railways sought a CBI probe into the Odisha train tragedy, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the probe agency is meant to investigate crimes, not railway accidents, and cannot fix accountability for technical, institutional and political failures.

Odisha rail accident: NDRF ends operation, withdraws all 9 teams

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:45:05 S O Correspondent

The National Disaster Response Force on Monday ended its rescue operation with the withdrawal of all its nine teams from the triple train accident site in Odisha’s Balasore district that has claimed at least 275 lives, officials said.