NEW DELHI: Several foreign nationals were among the 21 people who lost their lives in the fire that swept through a hotel in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar on Wednesday. Most of the victims were reportedly from Liberia, Nigeria, Mozambique and Bangladesh, officials said.Police officials told PTI that the hotel had permission to operate only six rooms…
NEW DELHI: Owner Lavkesh Bajaj has been detained after a lookout circular was issued in connection with the Malviya Nagar hotel fire that killed 21 people in south Delhi.The hotel was allegedly operating at nearly four times its permitted capacity, had no fire safety clearance, and was functioning from a building where additional floors were…
Hero MotoCorp has officially entered India’s flex-fuel motorcycle segment with the launch of the new Splendor+ Flex Fuel and HF Deluxe Flex Fuel motorcycles. While Hero’s new ethanol-powered commuter bikes do not directly compete with Suzuki’s larger Gixxer SF 250 FFV in terms of engine size or performance, these are currently among the very few…
A social media post about a foreign traveller being denied entry to US at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has stirred a row about visa rules and the powers of US border officials.The case came to light after a Reddit user claimed that a friend travelling on a valid B-1/B-2 visitor visa was refused entry…
LONDON/KOLKATA: Anisha Chakraborty texted her brother Raktim in the US from Birmingham last Friday to say she had good news to share. The 28-year-old from Kolkata’s Mukundapur had been job-hunting after completing her master’s with distinction at Aston University and had just made it to the final round of an interview.Raktim, who is based in…
Virat Kohli and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image: RCB/Screengrab) Virat Kohli had a special message for teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi following the conclusion of a remarkable IPL 2026 season. It was a night that celebrated two of the tournament’s biggest stars, one who led his team to championship glory and another who captured the imagination of cricket…
UTTARKASHI: The search for Babita Pandey, 24, an MBA student from Nainital who went missing from Ghoi campsite on the Dayara Bugyal trek around midnight on May 29, has exposed an alleged fake-permit racket in which her name and those of her two co-trekkers were pasted on an expired physical permit to bypass mandatory registration,…
Three members of a crorepati family — an elderly couple and their unmarried daughter — were found dead under mysterious circumstances on the second floor of their two-storey house in the South Malaka area under the Kotwali police station limits on Tuesday. PRAYAGRAJ: Three members of a crorepati family — an elderly couple and their…
Henry Nowak and Vickrum Digwa (R) A video widely circulating on social media shows British police handcuffing a dying teenager after he was stabbed by an Indian-origin Sikh man who falsely claimed he had been racially abused by the victim.The victim, 18-year-old Henry Nowak, was in a vulnerable condition and repeatedly tried to tell officers…
Techie who killed parents is mentally sound, say police BENGALURU: Was he schizophrenic and did the illness lead him to stab his parents to death? This question haunted everyone when police arrested 33-year-old software engineer Rohan Chandra on charges of stabbing his parents — Naveen Chandra Bhat, a retired Navy captain, and Shyamala Bhat —…