Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced a raft of measures on Sunday to ensure safety of devotees at Durga Puja pandals across the state even as opposition parties ta... Read More
Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- The death of 19 people at the Chor Bagan stampede pointed to a lack of planning and bad space management, several former officers of the Kolkata Police said on Sunday. Speaking on ... Read More
Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- Akriti Kumari, 17, was for the first time accompanied by her relatives, some of whom had arrived from Gaya in Bihar, for pandal hopping in Kolkata. A trip to the Chor Bagan pandal,... Read More
Bhopal, Oct. 19 -- The driver who mowed down 15 devotees outside the Shitala Mata Temple in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh lost control on a sloping curve 50 metres from the temple while he was na... Read More
Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- Sonu Ojha, a resident of Chor Bagan, was chatting with two friends at a tea stall on Amar Basu Sarani, watching the crowd move towards the entrance of a puja pandal. It was drizzli... Read More
Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- The Chor Bagan stampede that left at least 19 dead and 25 injured a day earlier might have dealt a blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), although West Bengal chief minister Suv... Read More
Bhopal, Oct. 19 -- Vidyaram Tyagi lost his two sons and younger brother who were standing in the queue at Shitala Mata Temple in Gwalior when a truck rammed into devotees on early Sunday, killing 15 p... Read More
Srinagar, Oct. 19 -- Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Sunday inaugurated the newly established Ladakh bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Melongthang, Leh. In his addr... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Vinay Sreenivasa spent three years fighting the restriction of protests in Bengaluru to a single, low-visibility ground: Freedom Park, the site of a former central jail in Gandhi... Read More
Lucknow, Oct. 19 -- Three friends were killed and two others seriously injured after their Thar SUV crashed into a road divider in Nagal area of Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district early on Sunday, po... Read More