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KEONJHAR/BENGALURU: A couple from Telkoi block of Keonjhar district was found dead in their rented house at Kallubalu village under Jigani police limits on the outskirts of Bengaluru in Karnataka on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Rakesh Patra (25) of Deuldiha village and his wife Seema Nayak (23) of Siriya Bahal village under Telkoi block. Rakesh married Seema four years back and the couple shifted to Bengaluru soon after. They were living in a rented house in Kallubalu village a ...Read More >
In a tragic road accident near Sada village under Sindhari police station limits in Balotra, four friends were burnt alive after their Scorpio collided head-on with a trailer and caught fire. The mishap occurred around midnight on the Mega Highway on Wednesday. One person sustained serious injuries and was rushed to hospital. This is the second major fire-related road tragedy in the Jodhpur region within a week. Earlier on Monday in Jaisalmer, an AC sleeper bus carrying 57 passengers caught fir ...Read More >
RANCHI: Registering their presence once again in the Saranda jungles, the CPI (Maoists) unleashed violence by setting ablaze another mobile tower in Bahda village under the Chotanagara area late on Monday night, creating panic among locals. Earlier on Saturday, the Maoists had torched a mobile tower in Kolbonga village under the Jaraikela police station area. These attacks coincide with the Maoists' 'Resistance Week', being observed by them across five states, including Jharkhand. According t ...Read More >
K.K. Bishnoi, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Sambhal, stated that the administration carried out the demolition after no action was taken despite the 30-day deadline issued to the contractors A demolition drive was carried out on an alleged illegally constructed marriage hall in Sambhal's Rae Buzurg village on Thursday (October 2, 2025). K.K. Bishnoi, Superintendent of Police (SP) of Sambhal, stated that the administration carried out the demolition after no action was taken despite the 30-d ...Read More >
Kurukshetra: A head-on collision between a Maruti Suzuki Swift and a Tata Harrier on the Kurukshetra-Kaithal road in Haryana on Monday morning killed six people and left four injured.The six victims, all from Bubka village, Yamunanagar district, were travelling in the Swift, which was driven by Praveen (40). The deceased also included brothers Pawan (57) and Rajender (53), Pawan's wife Urmila (49), Suman (45), and Pawan's daughter Vanshika (22), who died later at the hospital. The family was on ...Read More >
KURUKSHETRA: Five people were killed in a head-on collision between two cars on the Kaithal-Kurukshetra road, around 8 kilometres from here, on Monday morning, police said. Station House Officer (SHO) of Adarsh Police Station, Dinesh Singh, stated that the accident occurred around 7 am near Ghararsi village and is believed to have been caused by overspeeding. "The impact was so severe that both vehicles were completely mangled. Locals had to cut open the car doors to rescue those trapped insid ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 26 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh's villages are no longer just hoping for change -- they are becoming living examples of it. During a virtual interaction with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as part of the Viksit UP@2047 dialogue series on Friday, Gram Pradhans shared that the development witnessed over the past eight years, which was once only a dream, has now become a reality, energizing and inspiring every village, a release said. Shivkumar Rajbhar, head of G ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 26 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh villages are no longer just hoping for change -- they are becoming living examples of it. During a virtual interaction with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as part of the Viksit UP@2047 dialogue series on Friday, Gram Pradhans shared that the development witnessed over the past eight years, which was once only a dream, has now become a reality, energizing and inspiring every village, a release said. Shivkumar Rajbhar, head of Gra ...Read More >
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 16 (ANI): A 19-year-old NEET aspirant, Deepak Gupta, was brutally killed by cattle smugglers in Mauachapi village under the Pipraich Police Station area in Gorakhpur on Monday night, sparking violent protests, stone pelting, and a road blockade, according to police. The incident injured SP North Jitendra Srivastava and Pipraich Police Station in-charge, Puroshattam Anand Singh. Also Read | Maharashtra Local Body Elections: Supreme Court Sets January ...Read More >
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 16 (ANI): A 19-year-old NEET aspirant, Deepak Gupta, was brutally killed by cattle smugglers in Mauachapi village under the Pipraich Police Station area in Gorakhpur on Monday night, sparking violent protests, stone pelting, and a road blockade, according to police. The incident injured SP North Jitendra Srivastava and Pipraich Police Station in-charge, Puroshattam Anand Singh. Gorakhpur SSP Raj Karan Nayyar said that the incident took place around ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai police has recorded the statement of Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra in a Rs. 60 crore alleged fraud case. Mumbai Police shared an update in the case and stated: "Investigations are going on against actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra in an alleged fraud case of Rs. 60 crore. A summon was issued by the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police to Raj Kundra. He was asked to appear before police for the investigation." They further stat ...Read More >
Mancherial: Minister for Labour, Employment Training, Factories, Mines and Geology Gaddam Vivekananda said that special attention should be paid to the development works of Chennur constituency. On Monday he held a review meeting in Naspur in the district in which Peddapalli MP Gaddam Vamsi Krishna, District Collector Kumar Deepak, and others participated. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said caution should be taken in the process of distributing urea as part of agricultural cultivation, ...Read More >
JAMMU: Land subsidence claimed several structures, including residential properties, two govt schools, a graveyard, and a mosque in Kalaban village in Mendhar sector in J&K's Poonch district, triggering panic among residents and displacing about 70 families, officials said Tuesday.Many villagers relocated to safer areas and nearby villages as land continued to sink in Kalaban until late Tuesday. Previously, Doda and Ramban districts in Jammu region had experienced similar subsidence -- in 2023 a ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) India's gains from importing discounted Russian oil are estimated to be just USD 2.5 billion per annum, significantly lower than the previously speculated range of USD 10-25 billion, a research report said on Thursday. Stopping Russian oil imports would force India, the world's third-largest oil importer and consumer, to rely on limited alternatives, potentially driving global crude prices up to USD 100 per barrel amid rising demand and tight supply. "Benefit from Russi ...Read More >
Shimla: As rains wreaked havoc in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, officials said flash floods in River Ravi have washed away several government buildings at the remote Bada Bangal village in Kangra district. However, no loss of life has been reported, they said. "A primary and high school, the panchayat ghar, an ayurvedic dispensary and a civil supplies store that housed about 70 quintals of ration were washed away in lower Bada Bangal on Tuesday. The village has been cut off from the rest of th ...Read More >
Jammu, Aug 14 (PTI) Apart from Kishtwar district, which witnessed a cloudburst in a remote village killing at least 38 people, other places in the Jammu region are also facing the brunt of heavy rains. In Rajouri district, two minor children were injured when their house collapsed due to heavy rains in Khargala village, officials said, adding that the children were hospitalised. The continuous rain caused the sudden collapse of the residential house of SPO Altaf Hussain Shah in the Gali Pindi ...Read More >
A social activist named Jayanth, from Ichlampady village in Puttur taluk, has claimed that he witnessed the burial of the decomposed body of a teenage girl in Dharmasthala-Ujire 15 years ago. A second witness has emerged in the mass burials case in Karnataka's Dharmasthala. According to The News Minute, a man claimed to have witnessed the body of a girl being buried in violation of procedure 15 years ago. A social activist named Jayanth, from Ichlampady village in Puttur taluk, has claimed tha ...Read More >
Robhoi, Meghalaya: "I can relax now," Theilyn Syngkli (60), a farmer in Meghalaya's Ribhoi district, told 101Reporters. Most afternoons, she sits on the porch of her tin-roofed house in Nartap village, chewing kwai (areca nut) wrapped in betel leaf, sometimes knitting for her grandchildren, and sometimes, doing nothing. Just a couple of years ago, that kind of rest was unthinkable. Like most women in her village, Syngkli spent long hours after harvest separating husk from rice: a job done man ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for calling out the Delhi police for allegedly referring to Bengali as a Bangladeshi language, labelling it a "direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem is composed." Stalin said such remarks were not "inadvertent errors" but a reflection of a regime that undermines India's linguistic diversity. "The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as ...Read More >
Jashpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], August 4 (ANI): Covering several kilometres to fetch clean drinking water was the routine of earlier days for the population at Kujri, a village surrounded by forest and hills in tribal-dominated Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh, before the Jal Jeevan Mission came as a boon to them. Kujri is a village located around 15 to 17 kilometres from Jashpur district and close to the border of the neighbouring state of Jharkhand. Earlier, the villagers had to rely on borew ...Read More >
Tura (Meghalaya), Aug 4 (PTI) An official of the Meghalaya Agriculture Department was swept away by strong currents of the Ganol River in West Garo Hills district while attempting to cross the water body during a family picnic, police said on Monday. The missing official, identified as Teseng M Sangma, was posted at Ampati in South West Garo Hills district and resided in staff quarters near Dolampong in Araimile police station area in Tura. Teseng had gone to Sella Wari near Ganol River for a ...Read More >
BERHAMPUR: In a grisly crime, a 37-year-old man was tortured and murdered brutally over witchcraft suspicion at Rataguda village within Mohana police limits in Gajapati district on Saturday evening. The deceased was identified as Gopal Mallik. Police on Sunday recovered Gopal's mutilated body with missing organs from Harabhangi dam and arrested 14 villagers of Rataguda for their involvement in the chilling murder. Gajapati SP Jatindra Panda said on Saturday, the deceased's sister-in-law inform ...Read More >
Maharashtra Congress President Harshwardhan Sapkal on Friday criticised the state government over the law and order situation in the wake of tensions in Pune's Yavat village following an alleged objectionable social media post. Sapkal alleged that the police are failing to maintain law and order and are instead engaged in other activities, leading to repeated incidents of unrest in the state. "The law and order in Maharashtra is in a really bad condition. There is no Police here. Police are bu ...Read More >
MUMBAI: After the transfer of Mahadevi, an elephant belonging to a Jain shrine in Kolhapur, to Vantara, an animal rescue and rehabilitation initiative by the Reliance Foundation in Jamnagar, those who were unwilling to let go staged a march on Sunday. Thousands of locals and leaders from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Kolhapur marched for 45 km from the shrine to the collector's office, demanding that Mahadevi be brought back, following which CM Devendra Fadnavis said he would hold a meeting on ...Read More >
Addanki: Six migrant workers died and more than eight were injured when a massive granite slab fell on them in a quarry run by Sathya Sai Krishna Granites at Konidena village in Ballikurava mandal of Bapatla district on Sunday. According to fellow workers and the Bapatla district police, heavy rain on Saturday night destabilised the heavy granite block which fell on a group of workers on duty at around 11:00 AM on Sunday. The boulder killed four workers on the spot and injured several people. T ...Read More >
New Delhi/Imphal, Aug 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a second consecutive arrest in the 2024 killings in Manipur's Jiribam, central probe agency sources said on Friday. The NIA in a statement said that the national probe agency caught Lalrosang Hmar alias Rosang, a resident of Moinathol Village in southern Assam's Cachar district, from the Mizoram capital Aizawl on Thursday. The arrest came after the arrest of another key accused, Thanglienlal Hmar, by a jo ...Read More >
Dehradun, Aug 1 (PTI) The victory of several young women in the Uttarakhand panchayat polls was hailed as a reflection of an aspirational change at the grassroots, with Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami saying the election results augur well. Dhami on Friday extended his congratulations to several such young people who were elected officer bearers at the panchayat level. "I am happy that a large number of young candidates from ordinary backgrounds have won. I congratulate them all and appeal ...Read More >
Around 300 members of Gujarat's Kodarvi tribe have returned to their native Mota Pipodara village in Banaskantha, 11 years after they fled following a murder, fearing collective punishment under Chadotara, a conflict resolution system in some tribal areas. A village council invoked Chadotara and held the Kodarvis responsible for the murder of a man at a late-night gathering of four friends from the Dabhi, Thakor, and Kodarvi communities in 2014. Twenty-nine Kodarvi families fearing violence soo ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi launched a scathing attack on the Gandhi family on Saturday, accusing them of shielding each other in corruption cases and questioning the constitutional propriety of Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi's recent tweet defending his brother-in-law Robert Vadra. Speaking to the media in New Delhi, Trivedi took a sharp dig at LoP Gandhi, saying, "He stood in support of his 'hardworking farmer' brother- ...Read More >
Raipur, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chhattisgarh's Kanker witnessed a grim Saturday as two separate accidents on National Highway claimed five lives and left several injured, underscoring the persistent dangers of speeding and poor road management in the region. The first tragedy occurred around 1 a.m. near Aturgaon village, where a car carrying six young men crashed into the concrete edge of an old bridge adjacent to one under construction. The collision triggered a fire in the vehicle due to sp ...Read More >
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