Singarayakonda student tragedy, highlighting the need for a fair investigation, school management's right to due process, and justice based on evidence rather than allegations.
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2 fire incidents reported in Delhi, 6 injured after jumping from building in panic.
Police said there is no threat to public safety after a Run, Hide, Fight alert was sent by the UW Whitewater's alert system. Around 11:30am CDT, the alert systems of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus were activated
Childhood obesity is rapidly increasing in developing nations, creating a significant health challenge. This epidemic is now outpacing undernutrition in many populous countries
Asian markets mirrored Wall Street's upward trend, with Japanese and South Korean indices on the rise. The yen's unexpected gains caught traders' attention, signaling possible interventions
Welcome to The Daily Catch-Up, your three-minute evening briefing from The Indian Express. An Express investigation finds BJP booth-level agents submitting stacks of Form 7 applications seeking deletion of voters from electoral rolls in Godda with a striking n
A new UN report has acknowledged what has been clearly evident for some years - that there is no way for the world now to contain the global rise in temperatures to within 1.5 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times. The report by UN Environment Programme (UN
U.S. Treasury yields retreated from earlier highs on Tuesday in the wake of economic data, after another rise in oil prices due to the resumption of strikes in the Iran war had reignited inflation concerns and helped trigger a global bond selloff.Yields pared
Delhi NCR weather today September 1: Residents of Delhi-NCR can look forward to partly cloudy skies with scattered rain throughout the day. Expect temperatures to fluctuate between 26 and 34 degrees Celsius across the area
A recent Census Bureau report claimed thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. Experts, however, state the report's methodology is flawed and may create false positives
A bench of Justice Shalini Singh Nagpal issued the notice to the Punjab government and adjourned the case to September 15. The notice came on a petition filed by Gagandeep Singh through advocate Dinesh Mahajan
August marked a subtle rise in India's private sector activity, propelled by a rebound in services growth that countered the slowest factory expansion in five years. New orders showed a quicker pace but continued to be underwhelming against historical averages
Code-hosting giant GitHub has published a blog post explaining exactly what happened during an outage that lasted seven hours and 47 minutes earlier this week. The outage which took place on Monday, August 17, was traced to a critical infrastructure component
A charter plane carrying eight people crashed near a remote radar site in western Alaska. The aircraft departed from Anchorage and was approaching Cape Newenham when the incident occurred
Vishwanath and Sons Day 6 Box Office Collection: Suriya-starrer Vishwanath and Sons continued its steady theatrical run on its sixth day as it earned Rs 5.10 crore at the domestic box office. This takes the film s domestic total to Rs 77.40 crore
An Indian Express investigation has found that workers arrested during the April protests in Noida were jailed for an average of 53 days before courts intervened, granting bail in 84 per cent of cases involving substantive allegations. Judges held that mere pr
In The Traitors Season 2, Rhea Chakraborty claimed that she cannot afford to be a Traitor in the game because of her personal journey. In the Prime Video show, Innocents and Traitors are housed together, with the Traitors having the power to murder the Innocen
The United Arab Emirates has suspended all trade and financial transactions with Iran for now even as it accused Iranian forces of launching two ballistic missiles towards the country, a claim that Iran has denied. The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a sta
When navigating portals of municipal councils, users usually expect a maze of bureaucratic terminology that requires a lot of decoding. But the language used by Jaipur Nagar Nigam (JMC) s website has caught the internet s eye for taking a surprisingly unfilter
Ravi Teja is stepping into a completely different space with Irumudi, and the film has now cleared its censor formalities with a U/A certificate. The runtime is locked at 2 hours and 25 minutes, including titles, promising a tightly packed family thriller ahea
A total of 4,192 cases against sitting and former MPs and MLAs are pending trial across the country with 519 cases pending for more than a decade, according to a report submitted before the Supreme Court by Senior Advocate Vijay Hansaria, appointed amicus curi
A Gurgaon court on Monday granted regular bail to Pankaj Yadav, the third accused arrested in connection with a case of alleged fabrication of forensic reports concerning a purported objectionable video of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Mann had claimed
The Karnataka government launched a QR code-based Integrated Public Grievance Redressal System (IPGRS) on Monday for the public to register and track complaints about unhygienic food, expired or overpriced medicines, and other violations. Health Minister UT Kh
The death of the 92-year-old mother of an IPS officer in Ambedkar Nagar, initially suspected to be a murder after jewellery was allegedly found missing, has so far yielded no evidence of homicide, with a three-doctor panel finding no injury marks on her body
India's unemployment rate fell to 5.1% in July 2026, showing positive labor market trends. Both labor force participation and worker population ratios saw notable improvements across the nation
The Medical Counselling Committee has opened the choice locking facility for MCC NEET UG Counselling 2026 on August 17, 2026. Candidates who want to lock the choices they have filled can do it through the official website of MCC at mcc.nic.in
A month ahead of the withdrawal of the Southwest monsoon from Gujarat, the South region has recorded over 100 per cent season s average rainfall till August 16 and the Kutch region is staring at a deficit at 29 per cent against last year s 65%. The normal with
CAG flags E. Coli in drinking water at railway stations: Following the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on drinking water quality, the Ministry of Railways on Sunday announced a series of measures to ensure safe drinking water for passengers, inclu
A proposal to use nearly 12.6 hectares of land at the President s Bodyguard (PBG) parade ground near Rashtrapati Bhavan, including 7.58 hectares of protected Ridge land, is among 34 projects being examined by the Standing Committee of the Delhi Ridge Managemen
Brussels: First-time asylum applications in the EU fell to 42,525 in May 2026, down 22 per cent from a year earlier and 2 per cent from April.The total covered non-EU citizens applying for international protection, a term used for people seeking asylum or simi
New Delhi: India's engineering services exports surged nearly eightfold over the past decade to USD 13.77 billion in 2024-25 from USD 1.77 billion in 2014-15, highlighting the growing contribution of the sector to the country's professional services trade, acc
US President Donald Trump, who turned 80 in June, is facing renewed questions about his health after cardiologist Dr Jonathan Reiner questioned the extent of medical information publicly disclosed by the White House. The White House physician, Dr Sean Barbabel
Actor Vikrant Massey has opened up about the toll social media criticism once took on his emotional and mental health. The actor, who is currently receiving appreciation for his performance in Musafir Cafe, recently appeared on Shekhar Suman's talk show and re
The CAG highlighted the Green India Mission's significant failure to achieve forest cover targets. Observed forest cover increase fell short by nearly ninety-eight percent over ten years
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V D Satheesan on Thursday claimed that there were serious allegations in the report of the Sports Department regarding the efforts made during the previous LDF government's tenure to bring football legend Lionel Messi
Upholding the five-year jail term handed out to a school teacher held guilty of sexually assaulting his minor student in 2016, the Delhi High Court said that a child s trust in a teacher is sacred . Justice Madhu Jain, while hearing the teacher s appeal agains
LUCKNOW With the final report of the IIT Kharagpur team on the recurring failures of the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway expected within a week, preliminary observations by the experts have pointed towards possible deficiencies in the road s design and drainage syst
Asian stocks rose after a subdued US inflation report eased concerns about imminent interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. Brent snapped a six-day rally.The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose 0.6%, with gauges in Japan and South Korea advancing
A 35-year-old employee of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) riding a motorcycle was killed after he was allegedly run over by a concrete mixture truck on the Outer Ring Road near IIT Delhi Metro station in south Delhi on Wednesday, police said. The tru
Central Maharashtra should brace for fairly widespread to widespread rainfall till August 14, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday. There is a likelihood of isolated heavy rainfall in the region on August 13 and, again, on August 15 and
A woman was allegedly gang-raped by a group of at least six men after the car in which she was travelling with a friend was stopped late on Tuesday night in Odisha s Cuttack district, said police. The incident occurred on Cuttack-Chandbali road when the victim
A prominent Pakistani journalist has said that three senior officers at Pakistan's General Headquarters privately expressed fears that jailed former prime minister Imran Khan may no longer be alive, triggering fresh speculation over his health and whereabouts
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Board of Studies has announced the schedule for the Mock Test Paper Series I and Series II for CA Final students appearing in the November 2026 examinations. The mock test series will be conducted in physi
New Delhi, The report of an inquiry committee investigating allegations against Justice Yashwant Varma, against whom removal proceedings were initiated following the alleged discovery of unaccounted cash from his official residence, was tabled in both Houses o
Two teachers, including the headmaster of a primary school, were suspended on Tuesday after an inquiry confirmed complaints regarding the poor quality of the mid-day meal served to students, officials said. The action was taken against headmaster Rajesh Kumar
Till June 30 this year, 3,718 mobile apps, including fraudulent loan apps, have been blocked by Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under Sections 69(A), 79(3)(b) of IT Act 2000, said Kumar. Over 15.75 lakh SIM cards and 5.77 lakh IMEIs, as reported b
Delhi Police on Tuesday said they have busted a pan-India cyber investment fraud and mule account syndicate after arresting nine people from Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Punjab. The gang was linked to 34 cyber fraud complaints lodged on national cybercrime
More than 850 crore was lost to cyber-enabled financial fraud in Delhi in 2025, with 4,003 cases registered during the year, according to data shared by the Union government in the Lok Sabha. The Delhi Police recovered around 112.76 crore of the amount, the go
Beijing: China is expanding its aircraft carrier fleet at a rapid pace to bolster its global naval presence but the massive warships may remain vulnerable to submarine attacks, according to a US think tank report.A recent report from the Washington-based Centr
