Nepal Flood: Hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels; 1,000 people dead so far; 4,000 missing
More than 11,000 people have been pulled to safety so far in flood-hit Nepal. Only 279 workers have been pulled out of hydropower project sites in the ongoing rescue and relief operations. As many as 639 people are said to be still stuck at those sites.
Mamata Banerjee’s niece Bristy Mukherjee ends life in depression after job loss and divorce
Bristy Mukherjee, the 28-year-old niece of niece of Mamata Banerjee, was one of the 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff members who were laid off in the teachers’ recruitment scam.
16-year-old UP girl gang-raped inside empty sleeper bus on way to Noida during 47-km journey of horror
Instead of covering the 25-km distance from Pari Chowk to Noida, the empty bus ran 47 km to Kashmere Gate in Delhi, and the gangrape took place in the moving bus in the course of this distance, according to police accounts.
‘3 Idiots’ redux: Ladakh’s own Phunsukh Wangdu hits back at Aamir Khan with a witty Ghajini jab
Engineer-turned-education reformer Sonam Wangchuk, whose real-life innovations in Ladakh became the emotional backbone of Rajkumar Hirani’s superhit Bollywood film ‘3 Idiots’, finally breaks his silence and rebuts Aamir Khan’s claim with a joke.
Nepal floods: 28 Indian tourists saved from death by a brief tea break, delayed visa; toll hits 734
If the 28-member group from southern India had reached Syabrubesi bridge, all of them would have lost their lives because the bridge was washed away in the devastating floods.
