Category: India

More than 40 killed in lightning storm across Delhi-NCR, UP, Bengal, Andhra

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More than 40 people were killed and many injured as severe storms accompanied by heavy rain, lightning and gusty winds swept through large swathes of the country on Sunday. The deaths were reported in the national capital, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. Two people were killed as a powerful dust storm and rain lashed Delhi, where flight services and road traffic were disrupted. In Uttar Pradesh, 21 people, including a tourist from Maharashtra, died and 28 were injured due to inclement weather conditions, according to reports. According to…

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13 States on storm alert, Haryana schools closed for 2 days

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Thunderstorms accompanied by squall, hail and heavy rains are likely to occur in at least 13 states and two Union Territories across the country on Monday, the home ministry said. Thunderstorms accompanied by squall, hail and heavy rains are likely to occur in at least 13 states and two Union Territories across the country on Monday, the home ministry said. Heavy rains are likely on Monday at isolated places over Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, a home ministry official said quoting an Indian Meteorological Department advisory. Thunderstorm accompanied…

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13 Students killed after school van collides with train at railway crossing in UP’s Kushinagar

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The accident occurred on Thursday morning when the bus was passing an unmanned railway crossing. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe. Thirteen school students died and eight were injured when the van they were travelling in was hit by a train at an unmanned crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Khushinagar district on Thursday morning, an official said. The children, students of Divine Public School, were killed on the spot when Thawe-Kapatanganj passenger train (55075) crashed into the van at Behpurva, said Ved Prakash, spokesperson for Railways. There were at…

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Let media do its job, don’t give it masala: Modi to BJP leaders

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The Prime Minister’s comments assumes significance in the wake of opposition parties’ attempts to put up a united front against the BJP over Dalit issues. Do not blame the media for controversies that get created when you fail to exercise restraint, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers on Sunday. Interacting with them through the Narendra Modi app, he advised the MPs and MLAs against speaking on subjects they are not authorised to speak on by the party. The PM’s remarks come at a time when statements…

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Yashwant Sinha quits BJP, says Indian democracy is in danger

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Yashwant Sinha said he is not an aspirant for any top post but will work towards “saving democracy in the country”. Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government at the Centre, announced on Saturday that he will end his long-time ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Stressing that “democracy is danger”, Sinha said in Patna he will launch a movement for “the restoration of democracy as it is vital for the country, its people and their freedom”. “I am taking…

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Shift India’s capital abroad to hear PM Modi speak about country’s problems: Shiv Sena

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Modi, who is currently in London, had spoken about the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua at an interaction with audience there. In a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Shiv Sena on Friday said that the capital of India should be shifted outside the country, so that the PM makes statements on important issues. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the party said that PM Modi becomes a “mauni baba” when he is in India but speaks up on…

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India seems like nothing but a country of Crimes & Rapes: Bombay High Court

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The bench was hearing a bunch of petitions concerning investigation into murders of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar and Kolhapur-based communist leader Govind Pansare. At a time when people across India are protesting against rapes in Kathua in Jammu and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, the Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday said “India seems to be nothing but a country of crimes and rapes.” “Today, when senior-most executives of the country go abroad, they are confronted with questions as to whether like-minded, liberal thinking, secular individuals are safe in India,” said…

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Tricolour torn down from flagpole during anti Modi protests in London

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The Indian tricolour was torn down from a flagpole as some of the protesters at Parliament Square turned aggressive. Some groups protesting against atrocities in India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit here have turned violent after a tricolour was torn down from one of the official flagpoles set up for all 53 Commonwealth countries. Modi, who is in the UK for bilateral talks and the multilateral Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was greeted by protesters as he met his British counterpart Theresa May. Some of the protesters at…

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BJP has highest number of MPs and MLAs with cases of crimes against women: Study

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A study released on Wednesday by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the most number of MPs/MLAs with cases of crimes against women. The party has also been giving more tickets to these candidates as compared to others. Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Mamata Banerjee’s All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) also gave tickets to candidates with such criminal cases pending against them. ADR analysed 4,845 out of 4,896 election affidavits of current MPs and MLAs to arrive at these startling…

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Karnataka polls about Ram Mandir Vs Babri Masjid: BJP legislator Sanjay Patil

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Flaring up religious passion among the voters, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA has said that the election being held next month is Karnataka is “not about roads and drinking water but about Hindu-Muslim incidents”. The Kannada legislator made these remarks during his speech in Belagavi area of the state, reported The Indian Express. The video of Patil making these comments has been doing rounds on social media and has evoked criticism from many quarters. “This election is not about roads, water or other issues. This election is about Hindus…

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