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Telangana tunnel collapse: The minister said mud had piled up in the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel. In a grim comment on the possibility of survivors in the SLBC project tunnel collapse, Telangana minister J Krishna Rao said on Monday that rescue workers shouted the names of eight trapped workers but didn’t get a response. The minister further said chances of their survival are “very, very, very, very remote”. The minister said mud had piled up in the collapsed portion of the under-construction tunnel. “To be honest, the chances of their survival are very, very, very, very remote. Because,…

Jairam Ramesh called the BJP “liars and illiterates,” saying the USD 21 million was for Bangladesh, not India’s voter turnout. Amid the USAID funding row, Congress accused the BJP of “anti-national work” by spreading “fake news from America” and asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi and external affairs minister S Jaishankar remain silent on alleged insults to India by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. However, the BJP dismissed Congress’ allegations and called Rahul Gandhi a “traitor,” accusing him of working with foreign forces to weaken India.Congress general secretary in-charge Jairam Ramesh said, “BJP is a procession of liars and illiterates.…

According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km. An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 hit Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad at 3.24pm on Sunday. Earlier this week, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck Delhi early on Monday morning, sending panic-stricken residents into the streets. The tremor, which hit at 5.36am with its epicentre in Dhaula Kuan in southwest Delhi, lasted only a few seconds but was felt sharply across the National Capital Region (NCR) due to its shallow depth of 5 km. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also reacted to the strong tremors in the national…

Tamil Nadu, which has 39 Lok Sabha seats, has been opposed to any reduction in their numbers following delimitation. Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Sunday said that the state was facing a possible decrease in parliamentary seats because it implemented the family planning programme. At a wedding of a senior party functionary in Kolathur, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief said,”Because we properly followed that continuously, there is a situation of reducing the number of Parliamentary seats as part of the delimitation exercise.” Tamil Nadu, which has 39 Lok Sabha seats, has been opposed to any reduction in…

Modi was in Chattarpur in Madhya Pradesh for laying the foundation stone of the Bageshwar Dham Medical and Science Research Centre. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on those ‘engaged in dividing people’ and ‘mock India’s religious and cultural traditions’. Modi was in Chattarpur in Madhya Pradesh to lay the foundation stone of the Bageshwar Dham Medical and Science Research Centre. He said that it’s the agenda of some people to divide the society and break its unity. “Nowadays we see that there is a group of leaders who mock religion, ridicule it, are engaged in…

Kash Patel took the official oath as the ninth director of the federal bureau of investigation on Friday, placing his hand on the holy Hindu text Bhagavad Gita. Kash Patel, the newly appointed director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is making headlines after officially being sworn in on Friday. His decision to take the oath on the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, has drawn parallels to his past criticism of Western media coverage of the Ayodhya’s Ram Temple. Kash Patel was confirmed as the FBI’s ninth director on Thursday following a narrow US Senate vote, securing 51 votes in…

Hamas returned the remains of Shiri Bibas, initially misidentified as a Palestinian woman. Her family, representing Israel’s suffering, confirmed her identity.  Shiri Bibas’s family confirmed on Friday a body released by militant outfit Hamas overnight was of the Israeli mother whose two young sons also died in captivity. Earlier, the Palestinian group had said Bibas’s remains were returned to Israel with those of her sons and another hostage on Thursday. However, tests conducted to confirm the identities of the bodies found that the remains said to be those of Shiri Bibas were that of an unidentified Palestinian woman instead. The…

Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was allotted a broken seat for which the ticket was not supposed to be sold on an Air India flight today. Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday criticised Air India for mismanagement with seat arrangements after he was allotted a broken seat and questioned whether they were cheating passengers. In a post on X, the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said, “Today I had to come from Bhopal to Delhi, inaugurate the Kisan Mela in Pusa, hold a meeting of the Natural Farming Mission in Kurukshetra and discuss with the representatives of…

Donald Trump termed the now cancelled USAID’s $21 million fund for ‘voter turnout’ in India as a ‘kickback scheme’. US President Donald Trump on Saturday once again questioned the USAID’s $21 million fund for ‘voter turnout’ in India, which has been cancelled by his administration. “USD 21 million going to my friend Prime Minister Modi in India for voter turnout. We are giving $21 million for voter turnout in India, what about us? I want voter turnout too, Governor…$29 million to strengthen political landscape in Bangladesh went to a firm that nobody ever heard of,” the US President told governors…