In the aftermath of heavy rains in the national capital, a building collapsed in the Mahendru Enclave of Model Town on Saturday. According to Delhi Fire Services, some people are feared to be trapped in the building. Paras, an eyewitness to the incident, said, “This was an old banquet hall that has collapsed. It fell…
Moscow on Saturday (August 10, 2024) mounted a “counter-terror operation” in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv’s advance deeper into Russia and warned that the fighting endangered a nuclear power plant. Ukrainian units stormed into Russia’s western Kursk region on Tuesday (August 6, 2024) morning in a shock attack, the largest and most…
Palestinians look at the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City on August 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An independent, U.N.-appointed rights expert accused Israel of committing “genocide” in its Gaza war after an Israeli strike targeting a school on…
Aerial view of the site where a Voepass airline plane crashed, in Vinhedo, Brazil, on August 9, 2024. A plane with 62 people on board crashed on 09 August in a residential area of the Brazilian municipality of Vinhedo, in the state of Sao Paulo, leaving no survivors. | Photo Credit: PTI A passenger plane crashed…
A demonstrator displays a placard during a protest against what they say as violence against Hindu communities during the ongoing unrest, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Members of minority communities in Bangladesh faced at least 205 incidents of attacks in 52 districts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led…
File photo of a Bangladeshi soldier standing guard at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: AFP The Chief Justice of Bangladesh’s top court said Saturday he had agreed to resign “in principle” after an ultimatum to do so from protesters, broadcaster Jamuna TV reported. Obaidul Hassan, who was appointed to helm the Supreme…
A landslide occurred near Dolia Devi on the Kedarnath Highway in Uttarakhand on Saturday, triggered by heavy rainfall in the Kedarnath Valley the previous night. The mountain collapse resulted in boulders and debris falling onto the road, leading to significant disruptions. Emergency services are currently on-site, working to clear the debris and ensure the safety…
Watch: What led to Sheikh Hasina’s downfall? Sheikh Hasina survived the carnage of August 15, 1975 by sheer chance. Hasina, who was then 28, happened to be abroad when almost all members of her family, including her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, were killed at her residence in Dhaka by a…
Border Security Force personnel keep vigil along the Indo-Bangladesh International Border. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Border Security Force (BSF) is on high alert along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam in response to the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh. District Commissioner Mridul Yadav said that the Integrated Check Post (ICP) has been closed since…
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AP More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, the official Palestinian news agency said on Saturday (August 10, 2024), while the Israeli Army said it had hit a Hamas command centre. “The Israeli strikes targeted the…
