Pritinanda Behera

Gautam Adani becomes the world’s second richest man all over again

September 20, 2022

Gautam Adani, the billionaire tycoon, has reclaimed the second spot on Bloomberg and Forbes' global billionaires' list, leapfrogging Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Louis Vitton CEO Bernard Arnault. Last week, the Adani Group chairman briefly became the world's second richest man before falling back to third place. According to Forbes,...

Boundary wall collapses in Noida’s Jal Vayu Vihar society, killing four people

September 20, 2022

A boundary wall of a residential township in Sector 21, Noida collapsed, killing four people and rescuing nine others on Tuesday morning. Officials said 13 people were working on drain cleaning next to the wall when it collapsed around 10:15 a.m. The boundary wall is of Jal Vayur Vihar residential...

Sapna Choudhary surrenders, Lucknow court withdraws arrest warrant

September 20, 2022

Nearly a month after an arrest warrant was issued on Monday for singer-dancer Sapna Choudhary, it was withdrawn. The warrant was issued in connection with the cancellation of a 2018 event and Sapna allegedly failing to reimburse ticket holders. According to the reports, additional chief judicial magistrate Shantanu Tyagi ordered...

SC stays the dismissal of the officer who investigated the Ishrat Jahan case

September 20, 2022

The Supreme Court has extended the stay on the dismissal of Indian Police Service officer Satish Chandra Verma, who filed an affidavit in 2011 alleging that Ishrat Jehan, 19, and three others accused of being part of a terror module were killed in a bogus "encounter" in 2004 near Ahmedabad....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the NDMA formation day on September 28

September 20, 2022

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the National Disaster Management Authority's (NDMA) 18th formation day on September 28. Shah will be the event's chief guest, and he will address a gathering of NDMA personnel and others. Ajay Bhalla, the Union Home Secretary, will also attend the event. The central...

After hundreds of earthquakes, New Zealand raises the alert level on the Taupo volcano, a first.

September 20, 2022

Scientists in New Zealand raised the alert level for the volcano beneath the country's largest lake, which caused the largest eruption on Earth in the previous 5,000 years when it erupted about 1,800 years ago. The geological agency GeoNet said in a statement that it had detected nearly 700 small...

Firing incident reported in Patna, no injuries

September 19, 2022

A shooting was reported in Bihar's Hajipur town in the Vaishali district on Sunday evening, The incident occurred between Paswan Chowk and Marai Road, causing widespread panic in the area. This comes just a week after two motorcycle-riding criminals opened fire indiscriminately in Begusarai, allegedly killing one man and injuring...

Dalit girl, who was gang-raped and set on fire in UP, dies

September 19, 2022

A Dalit girl who was allegedly gang-raped and set on fire by two men in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district died on Monday in a Lucknow hospital from her injuries. After allegedly gang-raping the 16-year-old girl on September 7th, they poured diesel on her and set her on fire in the...

Protests force the suspension of coal supply from Chhattisgarh to Rajasthan

September 19, 2022

The coal supply from Chhattisgarh's Parsa East and Kanta Basan mines to Rajasthan has been halted due to a locals' ongoing protest amid rising power demand. The state government's electricity generation company, Rajasthan Rajyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, has been receiving nine coal rakes less per day from Chhattisgarh. There is...

Co-driver dies of truck en routing to Leh catches fire in Kathua

September 19, 2022

According to police, a co-driver of a truck transporting biscuits and confectionery to Leh was charred to death after the vehicle he was travelling in a caught fire late on Sunday at Rajbagh on the Jammu-Pathankot national highway in Kathua district. The deceased's identity has yet to be determined. "A...

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