NEW DELHI: Two people were killed in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district as protests against the Centre’s Waqf (Amendment) Act spiraled into violence over the weekend, prompting chief minister Mamata Banerjee to declare that the law will not be implemented in the state. The recently enacted Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, has triggered a wave of protests…
NEW DELHI: A massive avalanche hit Sarbal area of Sonmarg in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Wednesday. No loss of life or injuries were reported.A video by news agency ANI showed the destructive avalanche barreling towards a stationary vehicle. The incident comes just days after an avalanche hit a Border Roads Organisation camp in…
Fifteen people died in a stampede on Saturday at New Delhi’s main railway station as a crush of pilgrims were trying to make their way to a huge Hindu festival in northern India, an official said. The caretaker chief minister of the Delhi region, Atishi, who uses one name, told reporters outside a hospital in…
NEW DELHI: Cricket Australia announced on Wednesday that Australian spinner Matthew Kuhnemann, who played a crucial part in the Test series victory in Sri Lanka, had been cited for a suspect bowling action.To find out if his actions are legitimate, left-armer Kuhnemann, who claimed 16 wickets when Steve Smith‘s team won the two-Test series this…
SHILLONG: An earthquake of medium intensity rocked southern Meghalaya on Tuesday, officials said on Tuesday. No loss of life or property was reported.The earthquake of 4.1 magnitude that rocked South West Khasi Hills district at around 12:30 pm took place at a depth of 10 km, officials from the Regional Seismological Centre here told PTI.The…
Deaths from bombs and other traumatic injuries during the first nine months of the war in Gaza may have been underestimated by more than 40 percent, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet. The peer-reviewed statistical analysis, led by epidemiologists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, used modeling in an…
A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United States, state health officials reported on Monday. The patient was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, the officials said. The individual became infected with the bird flu virus, H5N1, after exposure to a…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 bird flu, the first such case in the United States. Health officials said that the patient had been in contact with sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, the Centers for Disease Control…