Twenty years ago, Petra Nemcova was waking up the morning after Christmas and preparing to leave her vacation in Thailand when disaster struck. In 2004, Nemcova was 25 years old and vacationing with her fashion photographer boyfriend, Simon Atlee, when a tsunami ripped through their bungalow along the Andaman coast. …...Read More

The administration in this Uttar Pradesh district on Thursday commenced the renovation and excavation of the ancient "Mrityu Kup" (well of death) at Kot Purvi, located within the Sambhal Kotwali police station area. The initiative is part of a broader effort to identify and restore wells that are believed to …...Read More

A woman was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who then attempted suicide, in Guwahati on Thursday morning, police said. The accused, who stabbed himself, is undergoing treatment and will soon be arrested, the police added. The attack on the woman, Mousumi Gogoi, took place outside her residence in Late …...Read More

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed near Kazakhstan's Aqtau on Christmas Day - while en route from Baku to Grozny in Russia - may have been "accidentally struck" by a Russian surface-to-air missile or antiaircraft fire, military experts cited in multiple news reports have suggested. Thirty-eight of the 67 people …...Read More

Four men allegedly assaulted a cab driver and damaged his car with sticks in Bhopal, all because he allegedly failed to give way to their SUV, sources have told NDTV. A video shows one of the men dragging the driver by the collar and slapping him so hard that he …...Read More

The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party - fresh off ferocious squabbles last week, over Rahul Gandhi's alleged shoving and injuring of two MPs and George Soros-Sonia Gandhi issue - went head-to-head Thursday over claims the former "distorted" a map of India before its Karnataka event. The BJP's state unit posted …...Read More

Two red pandas reached the Darjeeling Zoo from Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Christmas, bringing joy and excitement among the zoo personnel and the forest fraternity in West Bengal. No red pandas were brought from any foreign country in the past 10 years, the member secretary of the West Bengal …...Read More

A middle-aged couple in Andhra Pradesh's Nandyal district died by suicide after their 24-year-old son decided to marry a transgender person. Subdivisional police officer P Srinivas Reddy said Subba Rayudu (45) and Saraswati (38) had repeated arguments with their son Sunil over his association with the local transgender community for …...Read More

Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor recently took to his social media to warn his fans about an online scam involving someone impersonating his manager. The actor shared a post on Instagram, cautioning his followers about a fake account that had been reaching out to people, claiming to offer opportunities to connect …...Read More

A PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday sought to scrap the TDS system calling it "arbitrary and irrational" and violative of various fundamental rights, including equality. The PIL challenged the tax deducted at source or TDS framework under the Income Tax Act, which mandates the deduction of tax …...Read More