The carcass of a 40-feet-long critically endangered whale washed ashore in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary area in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, a senior forest official said on Saturday. The gargantuan mammal that weighed around 10 tonne was spotted on the coast at Agarnasi Island, he said. “The mammal’s body bore injury marks. The species figures in the list of IUCN Red list of threatened marine species. The forest department will conduct the post mortem examination of the endangered marine animal,” Rajnagar Mangrove (wildlife) Forest Division DFO Bikash Ranjan Dash. As there are injury marks, the mammal might have perished after being hit…
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Ninety-seven people were killed and two passengers miraculously survived a deadly crash after a Pakistan International Airlines plane with 99 travellers on board plunged into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport here, officials said on Saturday. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir on Friday afternoon, minutes before its landing in Karachi, they said. Eleven people on the ground were injured. Sindh health officials have said that 97 people have been confirmed dead, while two survived the crash, Dawn News reported on Saturday. Both the survivors are in…
Noting “spike” in cyber crimes in Maharashtra amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday warned of a stricter action against those involved in such acts. The minister also said that the Maharashtra Cyber Department has so far registered 410 offences and arrested 213 persons in connection with these. He said that there has been “a big rise” in crimes like spreading provocative content, rumours and objectionable posts against women and creating communal divide using social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. “These wrong things are happening. Please refrain from it. Meanwhile, videos encouraging…
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has announced that he will be prosecuting United Nations Under Secretary General Adama Dieng for defamation after Dieng accused Swamy of an anti-Muslim hate speech. Swamy has also rubbished the allegations, questioning the credibility of Dieng”s source of information. What started off as a war of words is about to result in a legal suit. The BJP lawmaker tweeted: “I am honoured and encouraged to receive from the BJP National President J.P. Nadda and office bearers their best wishes for success on my endeavour to prosecute for defamation the United Nations Under Secretary General Mr. Adama…
India’s national capital has reported one death every hour in the last 24 hours. The coronavirus cases count in the national capital jumped to 12,910 with 591 new cases reported in the last 24 hours and the toll reached 231 with 23 deaths in past 24 hours, the Delhi Health Department said on Saturday. With 23 deaths in 24 hours, the national capital recorded one death almost every hour. The Health report said that the cumulative death figures refer to fatalities where primary cause of death was found to be the infection, as per the report of the Death Audit…
The four astronauts shortlisted for Gaganyaan, India’s first manned space mission, have resumed their training in Russia, after it was put on hold due to COVID-19 scare. Russian space corporation, Roscosmos in a statement said, “Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) on May 12 resumed training of the Indian cosmonauts under the contract between Glavkosmos, JSC (part of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos) and the Human Spaceflight Center of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).” All four Indian astronauts are in good health. “GCTC continues to observe anti-epidemic regulations according to which sanitary and hygienic measures are carried…
Piyush Singh, a Jaipur-based man who went missing on March 20 was found to be from Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz recently where his name was registered as Mohammad Ali in the Tablighi Jamaat list, officials said. Seven days after he went missing, his father Anoop Singh, lodged a complaint at Sadar Thana, Jaipur on March 27. The missing man was brought back from Markaz this Wednesday by a Jaipur police team, confirmed Sadar Thana SHO Rajendra Singh Shekhawat. Piyush’s Aadhaar number is the same as that of Ali shown in the list of Tablighi Jamaat members. Also, Ali’s address shows a…
A UK court on Friday directed Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani to pay nearly $717 million to three Chinese banks pursuing the recovery of funds owed to them as part of a loan agreement within 21 days. At a remotely held hearing, in line with procedures in place for the Covid-19 pandemic, Justice Nigel Teare ruled at the Commercial Division of the High Court of England and Wales in London that a personal guarantee disputed by Ambani is binding on him. “It is declared that the Guarantee is binding on the Defendant (Ambani),” Justice Teare’s order notes. “It is declared…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have for the first time introduced a legislation in both the chambers of the US Congress proposing major reforms in the H-1B work visas by giving priority to the best and brightest US-educated foreign youths, a move that could benefit Indian students already in the country. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China, news agency PTI reported. On April…
Days after she said yes to his proposal, actor Rana Daggubati got officially engaged to longtime girlfriend Miheeka Bajaj in a private ceremony. The Baahubali star made the happy announcement on his social media handles, alongside sharing two stunning pictures of the couple from the engagement ceremony. In the pictures, the couple is all smile as they wave at their guests. Rana looks handsome in a white shirt and a colour-coordinated dhoti, while Miheeka stuns in a multi-coloured Kanchipuram saree. “And it’s official!” Rana wrote. Tamil star Sivakarthikeyan and other actors from the South Indian film industry extended their warm…