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The odds were stacked up against Anurag Nallavelli, 30, when he arrived at Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world, on 26 March. His right shoulder felt dodgy, still recovering from a dislocation that he had suffered during a climb in January. To make matters worse, his body felt weak after suffering food poisoning en route to base camp. He was now looking to climb without any supplementary oxygen or a high-altitude guide. Given his physical condition, it was likely to make things only more taxing for him on the mountain. However, at 11.20 am on 9 April, Nallavelli stood on the summit of Dhaulagiri. The progress had been slow and tedious. And closer to the summit, things had been alarming to say the least. He had first lost his backpack after an accident, a few hundred metres below the top. On his descent, the wind took away his left glove, resulting in frostbite to three of his digits. Yet, Nallavelli made it back to base camp without any major mishaps. It had taken

The bodies of three sisters and their children were found in a well in Rajasthan's Jaipur on Saturday. "The bodies have been fished out and a post-mortem examination is underway," police said. The deceased were identified as sisters Kali Devi (27), Mamta Meena (23) and Kamlesh Meena (20), and Harshit (4) and a 20-day-old baby. The two children were Kalu Devi’s children, India Today reported. The three women were sisters married into the same family. Making the incident more horrific is the fact that two of the women were pregnant at the time of their death, NDTV reported. They used to live in Meeno ka Mohalla. They had left home on the pretext of going to a market on 25 May, the police said. After they failed to return home, their family members put up missing posters at different locations and lodged a missing complaint with the police. Family alleges dowry death According to PTI , the police suspect it to be a case of suicide. However, they have launched an

Highlighting the welfare works done by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre in the past eight years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said in the last eight years no such thing was done even by mistake so that any citizen of the country has to bow his head. PM Modi on Saturday inaugurated the newly built Matushri KDP Multispeciality Hospital in Atkot, Rajkot. #WATCH | A large number of women greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Atkot, Rajkot in Gujarat today. PM inaugurated the newly-built KDP Multispeciality Hospital here and addressed a public function. pic.twitter.com/mEItfmXfar — ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2022 Addressing the event, Prime Minister said, "The BJP-led NDA government at the Center is completing eight years of service to the nation. Over the years, we have given top priority to service to the poor, good governance and welfare of the poor. Following the mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayas, we have give

The Kerala Lottery Department will announce the results for the Karunya KR 551 lottery today, 28 May at 3 pm. The results will be announced on the official website of the lottery department at keralalotteryresult.net. A detailed KR 551 results will also be available from 4 pm onwards on the official website. The draw will take place at Gorky Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, near Bakery Junction under the supervision of professional judges. The first prize winner of the Karunya KR 551 will receive an amount of 80 lakh while the second and third prize winner will be awarded Rs 5 lakh and Rs 1 lakh, respectively. Lottery ticket holders should note that a tax deduction of 30 per cent and an agent lottery commission of 10 per cent is applicable on the amount won. Here's how to claim the prize money: After the announcement of the lottery result, prize winners are requested to match their ticket numbers with the ones published in the Kerala Government Gazette. The KR 551 winners are dire

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to social media and paid tribute to Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on his 139 th birth anniversary, today, 28 May. The renowned freedom fighter was born in 1883 in Maharashtra’s Nashik. Taking to his Twitter handle, PM Modi shared a video on Savarkar adding his own and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's voiceovers to it. They spoke about the several qualities and contributions that the Hindutva icon made to the country. “Respectful tributes to Veer Savarkar, the hardworking son of Maa Bharti, on his birth anniversary," PM Modi wrote in a tweet in Hindi. Check his post here: मां भारती के कर्मठ सपूत वीर सावरकर को उनकी जयंती पर आदरपूर्ण श्रद्धांजलि। pic.twitter.com/AHk7L6qBib — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 28, 2022 Home Minister Amit Shah also paid tributes to the great revolutionary leader and social reformer on this special occasion. In a series of tweets, Shah mentioned that Savarkar was the epitome of sa

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government marks eight years at the helm of the country, News18 caught up with his younger brother, away from the hubbub, in Gujarat. Prahlad Modi is vice president of the All India Fair Price Shop Dealers Federation, and he used to run a ration store till recently. He shared with News18 his memories of the Prime Minister’s younger days and his assessment of the government’s performance. Here are the edited excerpts: How are you feeling as the Narendra Modi government marks eight years? We as a family feel very happy. He left everything in the 1970s and went away. Now he is the son of the nation. He is a guardian to every Indian. He is from a poor family, and now see what he is doing. He is making India proud. This is the first time that the Prime Minister of our country has been appreciated by US President Biden in such a manner. Modiji has not just made us proud but has made India proud. What is the most important thing the Modi government has

The cross-border surgical strikes conducted by the Army in 2016 and the air attack carried out by the Indian Air Force in 2019 at Pakistan’s Balakot had shown India’s strong response to attacks by Pakistan-based terrorist groups, Lt Gen DS Hooda (Retd) told News18 in an interview. The decorated Army officer had led the surgical strikes across the Line of Control in 2016 as the Northern Army Commander. The surgical strikes were conducted by the Army in response to the terror attack at its base in Uri in 2016 that had killed 18 soldiers. The Balakot operation was carried out by the IAF in 2019 just days after a terror strike on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in which 40 personnel were killed. Asked if India’s retaliation marked a shift in the way the armed forces operated, he said the military’s main task is to tackle the external threat and be prepared to conduct cross-border operations. “So, I would not classify the 2016 and 2019 strikes as major turning points for the ways that the arme

The crime was a serious one: Armed revolt against the rulers. After the failed revolution of 1857 — or the first war of Indian Independence — its symbolic leader, the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, was punished for his crime with exile to Rangoon. He eventually died there. His fate would be mirrored a few decades later by the last king of Burma, Thibaw Min, who the British exiled to Ratnagiri in Maharashtra after a failed uprising in 1885. Thibaw died in Ratnagiri in 1916. The idea of exile as punishment has a storied history, around the world. In India, a modern version of this punishment continues to be practised by employers. This is the punishment posting. It is the fate that befalls government officers who fall out of favour of the political powers that are, often for trying to do too honest a job, and occasionally for becoming a liability of some sort. This is what has happened to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) couple of Sanjeev Khirwar and his wife Rinku Dugga

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Friday chaired a high level meeting of senior officers from Police, Army and CAPFs to review the security arrangements and deployment of personnel for the Amarnath Yatra 2022 at police headquarters here. DGP J&K Sh Dilbag Singh chairs high level meeting of senior officers of Police,army,CAPFs to review the security and deployment of personnel for the Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra 2022 at PHQ Srinagar. pic.twitter.com/UWJrNYFOgJ — J&K Police (@JmuKmrPolice) May 27, 2022 The Amarnath Yatra will commence on June 30 this year. The meeting deliberated on different issues of security of camps, communication network, regulation of traffic management on national highway and other roads, parking of vehicles and deployment of forces on both the yatra routes of Pahalgam and Baltal etc, read a statement. It was decided that sufficient manpower will be deployed in advance so that the camps and routes of yatra are secured and che

The nation remembers Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 58th death anniversary today, 27 May. The first and longest-serving prime minister of the country, Nehru led India through a tumultuous period, weathering several crises like the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-China wars. Fondly known as ‘Chacha Nehru’, he played an important role in the country’s freedom struggle. He held the post of prime minister for 18 years, first in an interim capacity and as the Prime Minister from 1950. Under his leadership, several leading educational institutions in the country including the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management and the National School of Drama were established. As an astute politician, he led the Congress to a landslide victory in three consecutive elections, turning it into a party to be reckoned with at the national and regional levels. On his death anniversary, leaders from across political lines paid their respects to the country’s first prime minister: Prime Mi

The right to human dignity extends to sex workers and the police must not abuse them verbally or physically, the Supreme Court has said recently. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, BR Gavai and AS Bopanna observed that the police’s attitude towards sex workers is often “brutal and violent”. Also read: Supreme Court says sex work is legal, asks police to not abuse consenting sex workers The top court also ordered that sex workers should not be arrested, penalised, harassed, or victimised in raids on brothels since voluntary sex work is not illegal and only running the brothel is unlawful. Police should treat all sex workers with dignity and should not abuse them, both verbally and physically, subject them to violence or coerce them into any sexual activity, the bench said. The court also said the Press Council of India should be urged to issue appropriate guidelines for the media to take utmost care not to reveal the identities of sex workers, during arrest, raid and rescue operat

The language war is back in the news. The age-old debate of official language and national language cropped up again when Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin, on Thursday, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make Tamil an official language , on par with Hindi, as the two shared stage at an event in Chennai to launch a slew of infrastructure projects. Speaking at the event, the chief minister was quoted as saying, “Make Tamil the official language like Hindi and the official language in Madras High Court.” This isn’t the first time that the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK) chief has made such a demand. Earlier this month, he had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice NV Ramana on the same matter. Stalin had urged that Tamil be made the official language of the Madras High Court, giving the examples of the high courts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh where Hindi had been authorised as the official language along with English. “One therefore wonders,

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh participated in a yoga session with Indian Navy personnel at Karwar Naval Base in Uttara Kannada district on Friday. The Union Minister is on a two-day visit to Karnataka. #WATCH | Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who is on a two-day visit to Karwar participates in a yoga session with Indian Navy personnel at Karwar Naval Base, Karnataka pic.twitter.com/LlDslFu96u — ANI (@ANI) May 27, 2022 The Defence Minister also shared pictures on Twitter of him doing Yoga with Indian Navy personnel. Morning Yoga on Karnataka Naval Area Beach, Karwar. pic.twitter.com/x4szLYeDzo — Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) May 27, 2022 The 8th edition of International Day of Yoga is being promoted through several programmes by the Ministry to take the message of Yoga across the world to a wider audience. A curtain raiser event to mark the 100 days countdown to International Day of Yoga was celebrated on 13 March, while a 75-day countdown event was organised at the Red

A 24-year-old man, who was serving life sentence for raping a minor, was found hanging in district jail's medical ward in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly. The prisoner, identified as Abhishek Sharma, was found hanging on Tuesday night. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him dead, TOI reported. Additional District Magistrate (ADM) RD Pandey informed that a magisterial probe has been ordered in the matter. Abhishek's parents have also demanded an FIR, alleging that he was "murdered". "An inmate was found hanging inside the district jail around midnight. He had used a strip of cloth to hang himself from a ceiling fan inside the prison's medical ward," the report quoted the official as saying. Abhishek was arrested in connection with the rape case back in January 2018. He was convicted by a POCSO court in September 2021. "My son was a college student and was in a relationship with a girl who was 16 at that time. They both wanted to ma

While maintaining that he was yet to make up his mind on whether or not to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, firebrand Gujarat leader Hardik Patel has said that if the people of the state were choosing a “particular party" for the last 30 years, they must have seen something good in it. Speaking exclusively to News18.com , the 28-year-old who spearheaded a massive reservation stir said that the BJP has been successful in winning elections in the state for the past three decades. ‘’We have to accept reality. The party must have done something right that it is being chosen repeatedly," said Patel. What's next for Hardik Patel after quitting Congress? Watch @HardikPatel_ in an #Excluisve conversation with @swatibhan only on CNN News18. #Congress #HardikPatel https://t.co/X8p5x9inEA — News18 (@CNNnews18) May 25, 2022 On the Aam Aadmi Party’s foray into the state, the Patidar leader said that every party has the democratic right to contest from wherever it chooses

It has been eight years since the Modi government took charge in Delhi. A lot has happened since then. The cross-border strike in Myanmar, on the bases of NSCN (K), in retaliation to an ambush on an army convoy in Chandel district in June 2015, was the first message that India sent that it would no longer accept attacks on its soil. Pakistan did not take the hint. Indian special forces hit Pakistan terrorist camps across the LoC in retaliation to a terrorist strike in Uri in September 2016. Pakistan managed to hide its losses from the public but ignored the message. The airstrike on Balakot followed Pulwama in February 2019, and Pakistan understood that the new Indian government meant business. Since then it has been careful. China attempted to push into Doklam in 2017 but was stalled by Indian forces. India refused to budge, sending the message that it will not bend where national interests are concerned. Ultimately, it was diplomacy which resolved the standoff. China attempted to i

Security doubled down at Delhi’s Tihar Jail on Wednesday after a Delhi court awarded a life imprisonment sentence to Yasin Malik, the leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in a case pertaining to terrorism and secessionist activities in 2016-17 . Special Judge Praveen Singh awarded varying jail terms to Malik, rejecting the National Investigation Agency's plea for capital punishment. He said the crimes for which Malik was convicted were of very serious nature. “These crimes were intended to strike at the heart of the idea of India and intended to forcefully secede Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India. The crime becomes more serious as it was committed with the assistance of foreign powers and designated terrorists. The seriousness of crime is further increased by the fact that it was committed behind the smokescreen of an alleged peaceful political movement,” the judge said as per a PTI report. Also read: From Rubaiya Sayeed's kidnapping to killing