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The accident reportedly took place at Kiyari in Nyoma area, 150 km from Leh, late on Saturday afternoon when an Army truck, carrying 10 soldiers, skidded off the road and fell into a river, officials said.“Eight soldiers died in the accident while two others were injured. A relief and rescue operation was launched immediately after receiving the news about the accident”, officials said. The soldiers were going from Karu Garrison to Kiyari when the accident took place.–IANSsq/arm

Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Lalsawta said on Saturday that the MSA was formed on Friday to unitedly fight against the BJP.The Congress leader, referring to the resolution adopted by the MSA, urged the other political parties to join the alliance for the survival of the Mizos and their religion.“It is alleged that ever since the saffron party and its allies came to power at the Centre in 2014, there have been concerted efforts to demolish the minority communities, especially the tribals, and to usher in a Hindu kingdom by a series of legislations, to which the Mizoram Secular…

A CBI official said that the probe agency received a complaint in this connection from the Punjab National Bank (PNB) on March 13 this year.The bank claimed that it faced a loss of Rs 8.75 crore.The FIR read that Accord Furnishing Pvt. Ltd, its director Neerja Dixit, Ashwani Dixit, its erstwhile director and Guarantor of Anchor Overseas; Rajat Kumar Arora, director of Accord Furnishing Pvt. Ltd, and others committed fraud.”In 2015, Neerja and Ashwani approached the bank, seeking a Cash Credit Loan Facility of Rs 1.40 crore. The bank approved the request and disbursed a loan (Cash Credit) of Rs…

Sandeep Jakhar is nephew of Punjab’s senior BJP leader Sunil Jakhar, who had left the Congress party last year.The Disciplinary Action Committee of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Saturday suspended Jakhar.The action against Jakhar came following a complaint filed by Punjab Congress Chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.Punjab Congress has also confirmed suspension of Sandeep Jakhar and posted on X that, “Sandeep Jakhar is suspended from the party with immediate effect.”The suspension order has been signed by Tariq Anwar, Disciplinary Action Committee member secretary.The letter reads: “The President, Punjab PCC has complained that you are indulging in anti-party activities…

In a tweet, Congress General Secretary Communication incharge Jairam Ramesh said: “The nation is often reminded by G2 (Narendra Modi and Amit Shah) especially of what they call Gujarat Model. But what the nation is not told has been revealed in a recent Niti Aayog report: Over 38 per cent of population is under-nourished.”“Nearly half of rural Gujarat is deprived of nutrition. Ranks fourth worst in India in terms of stunted children. Ranks second worst in India in wasted and underweight children. More than a third of the rural population is deprived of housing,” he said in a tweet.He also…

Sable, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist in Birmingham last year, finished a disappointing 7th in his heat and failed to advance to the final.Sable, the national record holder in the event, could manage to finish the race in 8 minutes and 22,24 seconds, thus finishing seventh while the top-five qualified for the final.In the 20km race walk, Vikash Singh was the best-placed Indian at 27th with a timing of 1 hour 21.58 minutes. With the start of the Men’s 20km Race Walk delayed due to bad weather conditions in the morning, the Indians failed to excel, with Paramjeet Singh Bisht…

Sources in the state finance department said the focus area of infrastructure development through utilisation of the loan amount will be improvement of road networks and water transport systems in the state.“The government wants to emphasise on improving exports from the state in the next 10 years, for which it is necessary to develop a quick transit system. So, work on this count will stat before the forthcoming Bengal Global Business Summit scheduled in November this year,” said a senior official in the finance department.Apart from overall infrastructure development, the official said the loan amount will be utilised for special…

Sukhu was interacting with mediapersons in Delhi.”According to the state law, we have already announced Himachal Pradesh as ‘Natural calamity affected area’ and on Friday I had words with the government,” the Himachal CM said.He further said that the Himachal government is getting help from the entire country while Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh government government lent it support of Rs 15 crore and Rs 11 crore respectively as relief.”The Central Government had sent a team in our state and I am sure that the team had submitted its report to the Central Government and the first installment of the relief fund…

The first year student of Bengali honours died under mysterious circumstances after falling from the balcony of a students’ hostel on August 10. It is suspected that he became a victim of ragging.While demanding police custody of the accused, the public prosecutor described them as “successful criminals, but failed actors”.The public prosecutor also claimed that the three accused tried to mislead the investigating officers from the beginning by making contradictory statements.The accused include Satyabrata Roy, a computer science student, one former student of chemistry department, Sheikh Nasim Akhtar, and Himangshu Karmakar, a former student of mathematics department.Satyabrata Roy is accused…

The eyewitnesses have said that three died on the spot while one other succumbed on the way to Purnea Medical College and Hospital.The victims had boarded the three wheeler and were on way to district court Purnea to appear in a court case. The victims are residents of Bishanpur village under Dhamdaha police station.“We have received four dead bodies and seven injured persons. They have sustained head injuries and have been admitted in a critical care ward of ICU and all of them are critical,” Dr Varun Kumar, superintendent of Purnea Medical College and Hospital.An eyewitness said that the bus…