One dead and nine others were injured after a stampede occurred during the Makar Mela rush on the Gopinathpur-Badamba T-bridge over River Mahanadi in Athagarh of the Cuttack district, an official said on Saturday.
Wazir has been consistently targeted for his unequivocal criticism of the Pakistani Army and the human rights abuses that the Pashtun ethnic minority face in Waziristan and neighbouring border areas in the former Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), now a part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Minor cracks were observed in several buildings of the Indian Army after the Joshimath land subsidence and soldiers have been temporarily relocated, said Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande on Thursday.
A youth wanted in the case of attempted rape of a minor was found hanging from a tree in the Faridpur area, informed Bareilly Superintendent of police Akhilesh Chaurasia on Wednesday.
Two separate FIRs under Sections 307/34 of the Indian Penal Code were registered at the Jahangirpuri Police Station and a total of eight persons (mostly minor boys) have been apprehended.
A government school teacher in Berasia, Bhopal was sentenced to life imprisonment till death and a fine of Rs 20,000 for raping a 10-year-old girl by Additional Sessions Judge Gyaneshwari Kumre on Tuesday.
Cracks appeared at around 50 houses and various minor landslides have taken place at Bahuguna Nagar of Karnprayag. The local municipality has requested Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's government for help. This comes amid the issue of land subsidence in Joshimath.
Air Vistara, whose flight UK 781 from Delhi to Bhubaneswar had to return back following a hydraulic failure has issued an official statement on the matter pointing at a technical snag which forced the aircraft to return.