Adhikari added that a fact-finding committee would be constituted to investigate the incident NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakh and a government job for the family of each person killed in a stampede at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata.The state…
FILE PHOTO: Gerard Pique attends a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 16, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo Gerard Piqué had spent years looking for ways to make sport work differently, even before he retired from football in 2022. Last year, that interest took him into chess, where he invested in Freestyle Chess; in August…
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Smit Machchhar is recovering in Abu Dhabi Indian pilot Smit Machchhar who was attacked by his co-pilot aboard a Flydubai flight has recalled how a routine journey turned into a fight for survival, describing the repeated blows to his head, his attempts to call for help and the moments he lost consciousness as the aircraft…
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American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his brother David Zimmerman sold their 25-acre Scottish Highlands estate for £4,257,650 in December 2023, nearly doubling the £2.2 million they paid for it in 2006. According to STV News, the 16-bedroom Aultmore House was bought by whisky producer Angus Dundee Distillers after Dylan and his brother had not visited…
‘It went on like a normal day till it wasn’t,’ Smit recalled MUMBAI: Two hours into the flight from Dubai to Tel Avivi, flydubai commander, Capt Smit Machchar was checking landing time and fuel figures on the computer when something struck hard at the back of his head. He thought part of his Boeing 737’s…
Bengaluru: India’s Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson during the fifth and final T20I cricket match of the series between India and West Indies, in Bengaluru. (PTI Photo) India registered their fastest team fifty in men’s T20I cricket, reaching the milestone in just 2.5 overs against the West Indies in the fifth T20I in Bengaluru. However,…
In an official update, police said, “Today at around 7:40 pm, a stampede occurred at the exit gate of Sarada Park (Chor Bagan) Puja Pandal, under Girish Park Police Station, due to heavy crowds of pandal hoppers amid rainfall. The Puja Pandal has now been closed to visitors. All injured persons were rescued and shifted…
‘Thoughts with those who have lost their loved ones’: PM Modi on Kolkata stampede NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed grief over the deaths of 17 people and injuries to 15 others in the Kolkata pandal incident, calling it “extremely distressing”.PM Modi also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the…