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Last updated: September 4, 2024, 8:16 pm (US Standard Time)Stranded residents wade through flooded roads to safety after heavy rains in Vijayawada, the commercial capital of Andhra Pradesh, India, Tuesday, September 3, 2024. The total number of people affected by floods in Andhra Pradesh increased to 6.44 lakh on Wednesday, with 42,707 people accommodated in 193 relief camps.Andhra Pradesh Home Minister Amit Shah said that the Center is closely monitoring the current flood situation in Andhra Pradesh and has constituted a team of experts that will go to the flood-affected areas of the state for on-site assessment and propose immediate…
Last updated: September 4, 2024 7:44 pm ISTThe revised curriculum eliminates seven hours of disability training. (PTI data map)The revised course discusses sexual perversion, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism, sadism, necrophagy, masochism, exhibitionism, masochism, and necrophilia. However, the difference between consensual sex among queer individuals has been erasedThe National Medical Council has reintroduced “sodomy and lesbianism” as unnatural sex crimes into the forensics and toxicology curriculum for medical undergraduates.In addition to defining virginity and defloration, legality and its medico-legal importance, it also brings back topics such as hymens and their types and their medico-legal importance.These subjects have been canceled from 2022 as…
Last updated: September 4, 2024, 9:07 pm (US Standard Time)Kannan was allegedly drunk when he approached the students who were waiting for their train.The students' screams attracted the attention of other passengers, who intervened and handed Kannan over to the Railway Protection Force (RPF).In a shocking incident that has highlighted the ongoing safety issues on the railways, a Greater Chennai police chief has been arrested for allegedly molesting a medical student at Saidapet railway station in Tamil Nadu. Superintendent of Police Kamal Kannan was reportedly involved in the incident on August 25 at around 9pm. Kannan was allegedly drunk when…
Last updated: September 5, 2024 12:02 am ISTOne of the sources said the parts could be broken blades from an aircraft engine.People familiar with the matter said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an investigation into the incident.Aviation regulator DGCA has ordered an investigation into the incident of aircraft engine parts found outside Delhi airport, sources said on Wednesday.While sources said the metal parts could be from the Air India Express plane that made an emergency landing at the airport on Monday, the airline has now said it cannot confirm whether the metal parts came from…
Reporter: Ananya SinghLast updated: September 4, 2024 10:29 UTCThe HC noted that even after the alleged incident in 2001, the complainant continued to have a relationship with the petitioner and the nature of the relationship was further complicated by financial transactions between the two. (File photo)While quashing the case, the court noted that the woman had an ulterior motive in filing the FIR after the money borrowed by the defendant from the plaintiff was due.The Kerala High Court in a recent ruling quashed the criminal proceedings filed against the petitioner citing the apparent and unexplained delay of 16 years in…
Jonathan Lesser like Jeopardy! On game shows, green energy subsidies have been Congress’s answer to every energy policy issue. The first OPEC oil embargo in 1973-74 spurred decades of energy policy, including the composition of the Department of Energy. Subsidies for wind, solar and hydroelectric power were formally implemented with the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act of 1978. Reduce the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil. PURPA subsidies set off a race by independent developers to build small power plants, requiring utilities to buy the power they output at administrative pricing. In some cases, subsidies are unrelated to the amount…
People switched off lights to protest against the rape and murder incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. (Image source: News18)Junior doctors from West Bengal government hospitals have urged everyone to switch off lights and light candles or diyas between 9 pm and 10 pm today in a symbolic 'lights out' protestAs protests continued over the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, some people in the state staged a protest on Wednesday night by switching off lights from 9 to 10 pm. Junior doctors at government hospitals in West…
In the Netflix series “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijacking,” the names of the terrorists who hijacked Air India flight IC-814 (Kathmandu-Delhi) in 1999 were changed, sparking ongoing controversy. , she shared her harrowing experience.Pooja Kataria, who was on the flight with her husband, said that on December 24, 1999, half an hour after the plane took off from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, the five terrorists on board announced that the flight Being hijacked.”Burger” helps passengers and lets them play “Antakshari”Speaking to news agency ANI, Kataria said that one of the terrorists, “Berg”, was friendly to passengers and helped people…
Last updated: September 4, 2024, 8:27 pm (US Standard Time)The corridor will connect rural areas on the Delhi-Haryana border with major cities as buses are the only mode of public transport there.The expansion project will have 19 stations between Rithala and Narela and two more stations in Haryana at an estimated cost of Rs 6,230.99 crore.Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot on Wednesday said the Rithala-Narela corridor of Delhi Metro will be extended to Kundli-Nathupur in Haryana.He said the Delhi government has largely approved the extension and will send the proposal to the Center to move to the bidding stage.”The total length…
Don't look now, the “climate crisis” is officially over. No need to take my word for it. Just ask Vice President Kamala Harris, the new Democratic standard-bearer, who “only” mentioned the topic in her acceptance speech at the recent Democratic National Convention, according to the New York Times. [emphasis, links added] The Times also pointed out Harris “has not proposed any new policies to combat climate change.” How far we have come in just five years. In 2019, before the pandemic, inflation and anti-Semitic demonstrations on college campuses became big issues at the time, the United States was thriving in…