After the incident, several migrants, including women and children, complained of burning sensation in their eyes. Admitting the mistake in a tweet, District Magistrate Nitish Kumar attributed it to 'over-active' civic bodies personnel and said actin is being taken erring officials.
The new stadium at Motera in Ahmedabad, which will be completed in two years, will become the biggest cricket stadium in the world with seating capacity of 1.10 lakh.
As fresh Covid-19 cases continued to increase, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced reintroduction of curbs like permission only for 50 per cent seating capacity in cinemas and ban on select activities effective April 10, to help prevent the spread of the virus.
It's travel time for everyone, including Bollywood's celebrities.
The Bombay high court on Thursday sought affidavits from Maharashtra government, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Mumbai Cricket Association in reply to a Public Interest Litigation filed by 'Aam Aadmi Party' alleging illegality and irregularity in allotment of land in suburban Kandivli to the MCA.
BCCI is leaving no stone unturned to hold the upcoming edition of the IPL without any glitch
Caeleb Dressel of the United States powered to victory in the men's 50m freestyle to claim his third individual gold medal at the Tokyo Games on Sunday, while Australia's Emma McKeon also completed the sprint double with victory in the women's 50m.
Unless you know what you are and what you are not, how will you get an appropriate job?
Postal service worker Kristbjorn Hilmir Kjartansson and his friend Gretar Jonsson, a film student, took 14 days to make the trip from Reykjavik to Volgograd.
Even as a teen, Syed Firdaus Ashraf was terrified about losing his hair. So here's what he did.
The Ayanagar weather station recorded 122.8 mm between 8.30 am on Wednesday and 8.30 am on Thursday, which was 11 times the normal rainfall.
Urban lives are the opposite of rural ones, especially when it comes to evenings out, says Kishore Singh.
The Unlock 3 guidelines will come into force from August 1 and strict enforcement of lockdown in containment zones will continue till August 31.
We invited readers to send in their interesting summer snapshots. Here are some more responses -- and you can share yours too!
Restaurants with 50 per cent capacity, weekly markets and religious places will reopen in Delhi from June 14, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday, saying the COVID-19 situation has significantly come under control in the city.
Celeb-inspired ways to flaunt your white outfits.
Lewis Hamilton won the Monaco Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday, nursing his car's worn tyres to the finish in a nail-biting victory worthy of the team's late great Niki Lauda.
The hotels in shopping malls, however, will not be allowed to reopen.
Australian cricket team coach Darren Lehmann has described Pakistan as tough opponent despite the absence of off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who is under the ICC scanner for a suspect bowling action.
The total quantum of water supply has barely improved since Independence, while demand has exploded, points out T N Ninan.
Kejriwal said there will be no restrictions on the number of people travelling in four-wheelers, two-wheelers, auto-rickshaws, e-rickshaws and other vehicles in the city. He said that until now, shops in markets were being allowed to open on odd-even basis, adding that there are no such restrictions mentioned by the Centre in its latest guidelines.
The lowly kadu is promoted to an awesome pumpkin soup.
The trial brings together leading disease control experts from the universities with Medical Detection Dogs, who have already successfully trained dogs to detect the odour of many different diseases in humans, such as cancer, malaria and Parkinson's disease.
Confined to a wheelchair, Mohammad Shams refused to let his sporting dreams die.
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The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee said it had listened to feedback from athletes and was encouraged by a clearer path towards postponement. Major sporting nations Australia and Canada withdrew on Monday as organisers came under mounting pressure to postpone the event for the first time in its 124-year modern history.
After a meeting of the Group of Ministers on coronavirus, the government has proposed a set of social distancing measures to be in force till March 31, the officials told reporters.
Bollywood seems to be in throwback mode, raising the summer temperatures with their stunning pictures.
The tally of 114 includes two fatalities and 17 foreigners as well as 13 people who were discharged after they recovered from the infection.
'It would have been easy to make a small film with Tiger in a basti or an action film like Pushpa which was all mud, grunge and a repeat of what I had done before.'
Twelve days of movie madness and 36 films later, Aseem Chhabra lists his top 10 favourite films from this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Vijay Mallya faces a sensitive diary clash this week as the season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix coincides with an appointment to appear before Indian investigators.
'There is fear that the president and prime minister are dragging their feet and won't resign.'
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui pulled off a major shock on the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics swimming medal events with a stunning victory
'I treat my sons the same way you treated me.' 'No scolding or loud words ever, but with kindness and with logic. But when it needed, you were firm and so am I.'
Last year, his family forced Kishore Singh not to write anything about them...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday night announced a statewide curfew in Maharashtra for 15 days from April 14. However, he clarified, essential services were exempt from the curbs.
The Bogibeel Bridge, which was a part of the Assam Accord and sanctioned in 1997-98, is likely to play a crucial role in defence movement along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh.
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