Experts suspect ‘monsoon-induced seismicity’. As many as 19 earthquakes of magnitudes in the range of 1.7 to 3.3 were experienced in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district from the wee hours of Monday till morning, officials said. There was no report of any casualty or loss of property, they said. A senior official at the Gandhinagar-based Institute […]
The police in southern Assam’s Hailakandi district arrested eight Myanmar-origin Rohingya people, five of them minors, who were said to have entered India illegally from Bangladesh. Their arrest on Saturday followed that of 14 other Rohingya people from a train in West Bengal’s New Jalpaiguri. They had boarded a train from southern Assam’s Badarpur and […]
Finally, the heat and dust of a gruelling election campaign have settled in the 14 constituencies of southern Karnataka — quite literally with rain arriving on the eve of polling day. The voters will decide the political fate of their leaders on Thursday. Despite the shortage of time and daunting heat, there was intense campaign, […]
