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Nepal Army chief Gen. Prabhuram Sharma on Thursday flagged off Mountain Cleaning Campaign 2024 with an endeavour to save the Himalayas by collecting 10 tonnes of garbage from the environmentally fragile region.
O.J. Simpson, the American football star and actor who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife, has died at the age of 76. He died after battling with cancer, his family posted on social media on Thursday.
India ranked number 10 in cybercrime, with frauds involving people to make advance fee payment being the most common type, according to a new research that surveyed cybercrime experts around the world.
Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine on Thursday, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences, Reuters reported.
Real estate mogul Truong My Lan, was handed a death sentence by a court in Ho Chi Minh City, southern Vietnam, on Thursday, in what is regarded as the nation’s largest financial fraud case to date, according to state media outlet Thanh Nien.
Lan, who chairs the real estate firm Van Thinh Phat, was formally accused of orchestrating a fraud totalling USD 12.5 billion — approximately 3 per cent of the country’s 2022 GDP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed condolences over a bus accident in Mahendragarh, Haryana, that claimed the lives of at least six schoolchildren and left 20 others injured.
“The bus accident in Mahendragarh, Haryana, is extremely painful,” Modi tweeted. My condolences are with all the families who have lost their children in this accident. Along with this, I wish for the speedy recovery of all the injured children. Under the supervision of the state government, the local administration is engaged in providing all possible help to the victims and their families,” he said in post on X.
At least 17 people died while more than 35 others were reported injured after a truck carrying pilgrims fell into a ditch in Balochistan’s Hub district, as per police reports on Thursday, according to Geo News.
The incident occurred at 11 pm on Wednesday, and the rescue operation was completed within two hours.
A terrorist was killed on Thursday during an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said.
Acting on intelligence inputs regarding the presence of terrorists, the security forces initiated a cordon and search operation in Fressipora village, located in the Rajpora area of south Kashmir.
At least six children were killed and 20 others were reported injured when a school bus carrying them met with an accident and overturned near Kanina village in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district on Thursday, as PTI reported.
Read More | Haryana: Six children dead, 20 injured as school bus overturns in Mahendragarh
Several students were injured as the bus carrying them to school overturned this morning near a village in Haryana’s Narnaul.
On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended greetings to Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and the people of Maldives amid ongoing strained ties between the two countries.
In his message, PM Modi noted that the cultural and civilizational linkages shared by India and Maldives go back in time.
After their conservative ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections, South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign en masse on Thursday.
The results of Wednesday’s elections dealt a huge blow to President Yoon Suk Yeol, likely hampering his domestic agenda and exposing him to a mounting political offensive by his liberal opponents during his remaining three years in office.
Two pilots were killed when a Philippine Navy training helicopter crashed Thursday morning in a grassy area near a city public market south of the capital, police said.Officials did not report any injuries on the ground from the crash of the Robinson R22 helicopter in Cavite city south of Manila.
