A year on, long road to Baisaran valley | India News
PAHALGAM: A motorable road from Pahalgam town runs through the mountains to a place known locally as CM’s Hut. From there, a roughly 6km trek leads to Baisaran valley, the site of last year’s massacre, when 26 tourists were killed and 17 wounded in a terrorist attack.At the junction near CM’s Hut, the journey stops….
Not-so-simple sibling rivalry | Chennai News
Chennai: As dusk settles over Okkarapatti village in Andipatti constituency of Theni district, Ramayee, 60, hurries behind her six goats toward her home; V Palanichamy, 59, a vegetable vendor, weighs out the last of his onions from his three-wheeler cart. They are eager to wrap up their day’s work and catch the political campaigners making…
From ashes to shelter, fire-hit families rebuild lives with bare hands | Lucknow News
Lucknow: Under a harsh Friday sun and the lingering stench of smoke, survivors of the Vikas Nagar fire bent over charred remains rebuilding their shattered lives — one bamboo pole, one torn tarpaulin, one salvaged cloth at a time. Sarees now serve as roofs, plastic sheets as walls, and broken sticks hold together fragile shelters…
Harvey Weinstein to go on trial again in a New York rape case |
TRIGGER WARNING: The article contains references to rape and abuse.After years of #MeToo infamy, legal peril and prison, Harvey Weinstein is again going on trial on a rape charge in New York City.Jury selection started Tuesday in the onetime movie mogul’s latest retrial, where jurors will weigh – for the third time – whether he…
CEC holds review meeting for first-phase polling in Bengal | India News
NEW DELHI: A day before campaigning for the first phase of polls in Bengal winds up, CEC Gyanesh Kumar reviewed polling arrangements in the state. “EC will leave no stone unturned to hold elections that are fear-free, violence-free, intimidation-free, inducement-free, chhaapa-free, booth jamming-free and source jamming-free,” he said Monday. EC suspends Bhowanipore executive magistrates EC…
No longer waiting for the rains: Nashik youth power up new futures with solar skills | Mumbai News
MUMBAI: A group of young farmers from Nashik were in Mumbai for the first time this week, that too at the home of the Australian Consul-General’s residence in Breach Candy where they spoke candidly on how they are now no longer waiting for the rains to decide their future. Until recently, most of them depended…
Moody’s cuts India FY27 growth forecast to 6%, cites energy shocks and weaker consumption
Moody’s Ratings has lowered India’s FY27 growth forecast to 6%, down from an earlier estimate of 6.8%, citing weaker consumer demand and slower industrial performance amid rising energy and input costs linked to the West Asia conflict.For FY26, the agency expects India’s GDP growth to be 7.6%, according to official estimates, as reported by ET.The…
To protest pay cut, edu dept staff to leave children at FM’s house | Chandigarh News
Ferozepur: To protest against the state govt’s decision to cut salaries, as many as 1,007 employees of the education department have have announced to hold a rally at Dirba on April 18. “We shall also leave our children at the residence of finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who had repeatedly assured us earlier that salaries…
Tamil Nadu assembly elections: Whistles, cheers & frenzy on cue, Vijay enters T Nagar | Chennai News
As the mercury touches 34C, a customised high-tech caravan carrying TVK chief Joseph Vijay and T Nagar candidate N Anand rolls into the South Usman Road-New Boag junction. The actor, clad in a white full-sleeve shirt, rises from his seat and waves at his fans, already there, waiting along CIT 1st main road, behind a…