NEW DELHI: A mild tremor shook Himachal Pradesh on Monday night. According to the National Centre for Seismology, an earthquake of magnitude 3.9 struck Kangra in Himachal Pradesh at 9:28 pm. The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres, with its epicentre recorded at latitude 32.23 N and longitude 76.38 E. Earlier in the…
Arch-rivals Iran and Israel continued to exchange missiles and drones for the second day on Saturday, inflicting major losses on each other and disrupting the region’s peace, economy and mobility. Iran has suffered huge damage to its civilian and military infrastructure, including nuclear facilities and underground ballistic missile sites in different parts of the country….
The report focusses on Pakistan’s media blackout regarding military damages. A directive from the general headquarters in Rawalpindi prohibits broadcasting footage of damages suffered by the Pakistani military. The situation is compared to the information restrictions during December 1971. Four Pakistani airbases have reportedly been damaged, including the Rahim Yar Khan airbase. The Rawalpindi airbase,…
The Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, capping a six-year legal battle after NSO hacked 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, human-rights activists and government officials. In December, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that…
Before earthquake (left); damage after quake (right) NEW DELHI: Isro has released pictures of the damages caused by the deadly earthquake in Myanmar that killed more than 1,700 people. The images were taken by the earth imaging and mapping satellite, Cartosat-3.The earthquake’s epicenter was near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, which suffered extensive damage. The tremors…
Maharashtra CM Fadnavis (File photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis held a high-level meeting with top police officials on Saturday to review the recent communal violence in Nagpur triggered by Aurangzeb tomb row. Speaking to the media afterward, he warned that damages would be recovered from the rioters, adding, “Wherever required, bulldozers will also…
NEW DELHI: The ordeal of acid attack survivor Laxmi drew the nation’s attention to the plight of women disfigured for life by jilted lovers or others and led the Supreme Court to issue a series of directions including payment of compensation.On Thursday, senior advocate Kavita Wadia, appearing for NGO Acid Survivors Sahaas Foundation, informed a…
A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it…
Officials assessed the damage on Sunday after a strong storm system moved across the southern U.S. over the weekend, spawning tornadoes and killing at least four people. There were at least 45 reports of tornado damage across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction…
MEERUT: The Meerut division claims tribunal has ordered 69 identified people, accused of “damaging” public property during a violent protest against the Agnipath scheme in 2022, to pay an aggregate compensation of over Rs 12 lakh. The case relates to the violence that broke out in Aligarh’s Tappal police station area in June 2022. The…