Month: April 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI/NASHIK: Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a stay on Nashik Municipal Corporation's April 1 demolition notice to the Hazrat Saatpeer Sayed Baba dargah in Nashik city, but the structure was razed by a civic squad hours before the court hearing amid violence by a mob that left 21 policemen injured.Any plea against demolition is usually given urgent hearing as delay could cause irreversible damage. However, Bombay HC did not list one such plea against demolition of the dargah after a petition was filed on April 7, according to the senior lawyer representing the dargah. The apex court has sought a report from the HC's registrar general after the lawyer submitted that the petitioner had been waiting since April 8 but the "high court has declined to list the matter ever since".The civic body's action against the dargah at […]

[ad_1] Katie Thurston, who became a fan favourite on season 17 of ‘The Bachelorette’, has revealed she is facing the biggest battle of her life—stage 4 breast cancer. The 33-year-old reality star first shared her diagnosis in February this year. She was told she had invasive ductal carcinoma, a common type of breast cancer. But what started as a stage 3 diagnosis quickly became more serious when doctors found signs of cancer on her liver, confirming it had progressed to stage 4.‘Being alone is the hardest’In a heartfelt preview of her upcoming interview on ‘Uncomfortable Conversations with Emmanuel Acho’, Katie got emotional while talking about the toughest part of her journey. “I think being alone is the hardest, if I had to pick something,” she told Acho. “And that’s why I’m so thankful just to have this online community.”Her husband, […]

[ad_1] BHOPAL: Till two years ago, they were the undisputed kings of Kuno's forests. Today, they are seen as ‘fugitives' with blood on their paws. Leopards displaced to accommodate Project Cheetah are said to be turning aggressive, with five attacks reported near the park's edges in recent days.Last Saturday, a 12-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack, and on Tuesday, a woman was critically injured. Fear hangs heavy in villages surrounding Kuno. With cheetahs getting unfettered reign of Kuno, leopards — the original apex predators there — seem to be looking elsewhere for pride and prey. And villagers are paying the price.Some of the leopards were radio-collared before being pushed out, but tracking details remain unclear. Are all attacks the work of a single, rogue leopard? Or are multiple animals now roaming human settlements in search of lost territory? […]

[ad_1] Following the fatal mass shooting at Florida State University (FSU), a video is going viral on social media of a person, most likely a student, who was sipping coffee amid the shooting, and came across a woman who lay bloodied on the ground.However, the individual did not stop to check on the victim. Instead, they filmed her.Also read: Who was the active shooter storming FSU campus? What we know so farThe FSU shooting left two people dead while at least five others were injured. The deceased were not students of the university, which is located in Tallahassee, Florida.Police have identified 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner as the suspect. He is an FSU student and son of Jessica Ikner, Leon County sheriff's deputy.'Morals are gone in America'Reacting to the video, an X user said, "Morals are gone in America. This person sees […]

[ad_1] Professor Mohammad Yunus and PM Modi NEW DELHI: India has no intention of getting itself embroiled in a trade war with Bangladesh even though the signalling from Dhaka on trade issues remains far from positive. The Indian govt reiterated on Thursday that India's recent withdrawal of the trans-shipment facility extended to Bangladesh in 2020 was meant to ease congestion at Indian ports and airports.India has ensured that this action does not impact Bangladesh's exports to Nepal and Bhutan transiting through Indian territory. Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said it's important to look at the developments that have happened on the Bangladeshi side prior to India announcing these measures.The Indian side believes that even before the trans-shipment facility was blocked by India, the interim government in Bangladesh had taken several steps that threatened to disrupt trade ties. The […]

[ad_1] KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and governor CV Ananda Bose were on a collision course Thursday over strife-torn Murshidabad after she urged the latter and politicians from all parties not to visit the district for a while, arguing against "fishing in troubled waters" just when normalcy was returning to areas singed by Waqf law-linked mob violence.Bose declared soon after that he intended to make an "on-the-spot assessment", based on which he would send a report to Centre. He met some people affected by the violence earlier in the day. "If peace is restored, I will be the happiest person. I will file my report accordingly," he said.Sources said representations to Raj Bhavan from those who lost homes included a plea for permanent BSF camps to ensure safety, saying they did not have faith in police."I appeal to everyone to […]

[ad_1] Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah and former RAW secretary and 'friend' A S Dulat NEW DELHI: As former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah cries 'betrayal' over former RAW secretary and 'friend' A S Dulat's claim in his latest book that the senior Abdullah had privately supported the abrogation of Article 370 in J&K, the ex-spymaster has clarified that all that he meant to convey is that Farooq always wanted to be on the right side of Delhi, albeit on his own terms."If he is saying I have betrayed him, he possibly has not read the book. The book is not a critique but praises Farooq Abdullah for the leader he is. As former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and my ex-boss M K Narayanan says in the foreword of 'The Chief Minister and The Spy', Abdullah is […]