Akshita Kapoor

[ad_1] A twin-engine aircraft carrying two people crashed on Saturday in a muddy field in upstate New York, said Columbia County Undersheriff Jacqueline Salvatore, reported Associated Press. While she did not report any deaths, she said there was no damage to any structures.The federal aviation administration reported that the Mitsubishi MU-2B was en route to Columbia County Airport near Hudson but went down roughly 30 miles away, near Copake.Salvatore said that mud, weather conditions, and snow have made it hard for first responders to reach the crash site. The national transportation safety board said it has sent an investigation team, which is expected to reach New York by Saturday evening.According to New York Times, data from Flightradar24 shows a plane of the same model took off from Westchester County Airport in White Plains shortly after 11:30 a.m. It headed north […]

[ad_1] GURGAON: A video from OP Jindal University in Sonipat - featuring a girl emerging out of a suitcase like a magician's escape - went viral on social media, with many describing it as a boy's 'Romeo-and-Juliet' style attempt to smuggle his love into his hostel. The university said it was prank gone too far and was taking action against the students, reports Anjali Singh.Although the video - which surfaced Saturday - does not show any boy in it, sources at the university said one had indeed sneaked into the girls' hostel.It was not immediately clear if this was linked to the suitcase incident. According to Anjoo Mohun, director of communications at the university, the video shows a group of girl students moving their friend around the hostel in a large suitcase as part of a "light-hearted" joke."This was a […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Flyers in and out of Delhi faced double disruption since Friday evening. First, a dust storm led to many incoming flights being diverted to other cities on Friday. Then, there were long delays in these flights finally arriving at IGI due to the main runway being shut for upgradation, triggering network-wide delays on Saturday.Over 350 departures from IGI Airport were affected between midnight and 2pm Saturday, leaving thousands stranded. The average delay was 40 minutes, and many airlines had to cancel flights due to the scale of disruptions.Over 40 Delhi-bound flights had been diverted due to stormy conditions on Friday. The strong thunderstorm, with winds reaching 74kmph, hit IGI around 6.30pm and created chaos. The sudden change in wind speed impacted take-offs and landings, with Air Traffic Control suspending operations for nearly 45 minutes. The inclement weather […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court drew inspiration from provisions in the constitutions of Pakistan and the US in specifying timelines for governors in giving assent, returning or referring to President the bills passed by state assemblies, and said time-limit breach is amenable to judicial scrutiny.The 415-page magnum opus of a judgment by Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan, pronounced on April 8 but uploaded on SC's website Friday, justified its decision to give purposive meaning to the words 'as soon as possible' in the Constitution for governors or the President in taking decision on bills passed by assemblies or Parliament.Writing the judgment, Justice Pardiwala gave omnibus scrutiny powers to SC, and said, "No exercise of power under the Constitution is beyond the ambit of its judicial review. Thus, we find no reason to exclude discharge of functions by governor […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Raising hopes for lakhs who lost their money in the Rose Valley ponzi scam in West Bengal, govt on Saturday gave Rs 515 crore to the asset disposal committee for restitution of properties to 7.5 lakh victims.So far, around 31 lakh claims have been registered by the Calcutta high court-appointed committee, and Rs 22 crore has been restored to 32,319 investors. Junior Union finance minister Pankaj Chaudhary handed over the cheque for the amount, attached by Enforcement Directorate, to committee chairman Justice (Retd) DK Seth. In addition, attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs 2,000 crore are currently under liquidation, which will be used to refund poor people who had lost their investments in the chit fund scam.Lakhs of people in West Bengal, Odisha, Assam and Tripura had invested their life savings in the scheme that turned […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a big blow to CPM, Kerala HC in a rare order Friday warned state police against "coming under pressure from any political or bureaucratic quarters" and directed the investigating officer to expedite probe of money laundering charges against top functionaries of the state's governing party and place on record all documents within three months before the court.The investigation is related to alleged fraud and siphoning off more than Rs 150 crore of funds of Thrissur-based Karuvannur Cooperative Bank, in which just three days ago ED had interrogated CPM central committee member and Lok Sabha MP K Radhakrishnan.In the order, passed on a writ petition filed by ED, Justice DK Singh directed Kerala police to "investigate the role of all accused, who had been named by ED in ECIR filed by the agency". The court asked the […]

[ad_1] What you post on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms has never been more important. Especially, if you are planning to apply for the US visa. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas. According to a report in The New York Times, quoting US government officials, the aim of scouring social media accounts of the US Visa applicants is an effort to bar those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering America. The US secretary of state reportedly laid out the instructions in a long Cable sent to diplomatic missions across the world on March 25. Rubio’s directive reportedly said that starting immediately, consular officers must refer certain student and exchange visitor visa […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A man murdered his wife and attempted to pass it off as a suicide in southwest Delhi's Mahipalpur. After the post-mortem found signs that she had been killed by strangulation, police interrogated the woman's husband, who confessed to the crime, stating that he was drunk after attending a party and had an altercation with his wife, which led to the murder.Police received a control room alert on March 6 about an alleged hanging death. On reaching the spot at K Block in Mahipalpur, the police team found that a woman named Kalpana, aged 28, had hanged herself. Her body had already been taken down by her family members and taken to a Vasant Kunj hospital, where she was declared brought dead. The deceased had married Amit Kumar Sehrawat about six years ago, and she had a five-year-old […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has started proceedings to take possession of more than Rs 700 crore worth of properties of Associate Journals Ltd (AJL), controlled by Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. AJL owned Congress mouthpiece National Herald and associated publications.AJL properties, in prime locations in Lucknow, Mumbai and Delhi, including Herald House on BSZ Marg in New Delhi, were long ago attached by ED in its ongoing laundering probe against AJL and the Gandhis. ED has also served notices to corporate houses running offices from some of these premises, asking them to deposit rent to ED.ED, in its statement, said, "Investigation has conclusively revealed Young Indian, a private company beneficially owned by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, acquired AJL's properties worth Rs 2,000 crore for a mere Rs 50 lakh, significantly undervaluing its worth." The agency […]

[ad_1] MUMBAI: India experienced the flip side of going cashless when Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the platform that accounts for more than four-fifths of all digital transactions in the country, suffered a major outage Saturday, leaving users struggling to make payments across malls, parking lots and shops.Users across India reported failed payments. Some got debit alerts despite failed transactions. National Payments Corporation of India, which operates UPI, reported "intermittent technical issues leading to partial transaction declines" which "stabilised by late afternoon". TNNNPCI said they regretted the outage and were "working to resolve the issue". The impact was pan-India, with complaints from people in Bengal, Delhi, Maharashtra, UP, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Assam and the southern states. A woman in the national capital said the outage inconvenienced people at a specialty hospital as it led to a long queue at the payments desk. […]