SANTA FE: A towering figure in cinema for decades, retired actor Gene Hackman spent his final years in seclusion with his wife, living with heart disease and Alzheimer’s, authorities said Friday. An investigation into the deaths of Hackman and his wife, 65-year-old Betsy Arakawa, paint a tragic picture of the 95-year-old Oscar-winner’s last days before…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi’s remarks hailing Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for being a good administrator has ruffled some feathers especially in the Maharashtra political landscape with the Shiv Sena announcing a statewide protest. The controversy refuses to die down even as the SP leader issued an apology while also defending his remarks saying…
A rapidly spreading and unidentified illness has claimed the lives of more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, sparking urgent investigations by international health organisations. The outbreak, which began after three children reportedly consumed a bat, has raised concerns about a potential new zoonotic disease. The illness was first detected…
RAIPUR: At least 31 Maoist insurgents and two security personnel were killed Sunday in a fierce gunfight in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, one of the last Naxal strongholds in the country. The operation is ongoing and officials expect the Maoist death toll to rise.This is the second-largest Maoist casualty count in a…
VARANASI/BHOPAL: Eight Kumbh pilgrims – four from Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, three from MP’s Satna district, and one from Odisha’s Kandhamal – were killed in separate road accidents on Sunday, raising the death toll from such mishaps since the start of the world’s largest religious congregation to 79, report Rajeev Dikshit.An SUV carrying ten pilgrims returning to…
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NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday defended his ‘poison in Yamuna’ remark and said that he was not afraid of Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini’s threat of taking legal action against him.“Saini Sahab (Haryana CM), don’t do politics on water. Don’t try to scare us that you will file a…
The daughter of Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman convicted of drugging his ex-wife and facilitating her rape by dozens of men, said in a BBC interview that her father “should die in prison.” Caroline Darian, speaking publicly for the first time since her father was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month, described him as…
The deceased siblings were identified as Yasir Imtiyaz Khan and Danish Imtiyaz Khan from Chijhama in Baramulla’s Rafiabad district. JAMMU: Two brothers from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district died when a truck plunged into a gorge in Ramban district late Thursday.The deceased siblings were identified as Yasir Imtiyaz Khan and Danish Imtiyaz Khan from Chijhama…
At least three migrants died early on Sunday while attempting to cross the English Channel to the UK from northern France, authorities said. The deaths were confirmed after an early morning rescue operation involving French emergency services and the navy’s “Dauphin” helicopter. The prefecture described the attempted crossing as “difficult”, with around 50 people stranded…