A MIG-29K fighter aircraft of the Navy with an trainee pilot crashed off the runway during takeoff at the Goa airport on Wednesday. “The pilot has ejected to safety. Fire on the aircraft is being extinguished,” a Navy officer said. This is the first accident involving the MIG-29k. The Navy operates 45 such aircraft and they fly off aircraft carrier […]
» Read moreCarnatic vocalist Radha Vishwanathan, 83, daughter of M.S. Subbulakshmi, who accompanied the legendary musician for nearly five decades on stage, died in Bengaluru on Tuesday night. “My mother Radha Vishwanathan breathed her last on Tuesday, 11.50 p.m. on January 2. She was suffering from pneumonia for the last few weeks but was mentally very active,” said her son V. Shrinivasan. […]
» Read moreThe Higher Secondary Second Year examination of March/April 2018 will be held from March 3 and conclude on April 6, the Department of Government Examinations announced on Wednesday. The examination for Class 12 students will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 1.15 p.m. Students will get 10 minutes to read the question papers and an additional five minutes to […]
» Read moreThe Supreme Court has directed the Himachal Pradesh government to deposit ₹15 lakh as a lump-sum compensation for the welfare of a differently-abled rape survivor who gave birth to a child. A Bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul ordered the State to deposit the money in an interest-bearing fixed deposit in a nationalised bank in the name […]
» Read moreHollywood women A-listers and actors launched an initiative to fight systemic sexual harassment in the film industry, months after Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual transgressions came to light. The new initiative, called Time’s Up, is being backed by prominent Hollywood women, including Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie Jennifer Aniston, Ashley Judd, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman, Emma Stone, Kerry Washington and […]
» Read moreInmates from rival gangs battled at a prison in Goias state on late Monday, leaving nine dead and 14 injured, authorities told the Brazilian news site G1. Officials said the violence at the Colonia Agroindustrial prison in the Aparecida de Goiania Complex apparently erupted when inmates from one cellblock invaded three others where prisoners from rival gangs are housed. The […]
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