The death toll from the flash flood in North Sikkim has risen to 44, with six more bodies being found in neighbouring Bengal. The number of missing people has also increased to 142. Rescue attempts have been hindered by bad weather conditions, and families of the missing are anxiously waiting for news. The Sikkim...
Read MoreA high school in India has an unusual situation with five sets of identical twins studying in the same class. The teacher, Juliet Lona D’Sa, struggles to differentiate between the twins and has resorted to calling out their names without making eye contact. This method works for the most part. The twins have been...
Read MoreThe latest excise policy for 2023-24 by the Uttarakhand government includes a new provision allowing individuals to obtain a license for maintaining mini-bars at their residences, subject to specific conditions. Upon approval, license holders are permitted to store up to nine liters of Indian made foreign liquor, 18 liters of foreign alcohol, nine liters...
Read MoreA teacher in Uttar Pradesh, India, has taken the initiative to bring school to students who were not attending. Amit Verma, an assistant teacher with 14 years of experience, took the entire Class 4 – 33 students – to the house of two children who had stopped coming to school. He conducted classes outside...
Read MoreThe Delhi High Court questioned the Delhi police for not providing the grounds for arrest in the remand plea seeking custody of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and executive Amit Chakravarty. The court refused to grant interim relief to the accused but asked the police to respond to their applications seeking interim release.
Read MoreTwo class 12 students in Agra shot their tuition teacher in the leg and threatened to shoot him 40 more times in a video they recorded. The incident was inspired by gangster videos. The students were arrested and charged with attempted murder and criminal intimidation. One of the students was upset that the teacher...
Read MoreNarges Mohammadi has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her promotion of human rights. The committee also recognized the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against Iran’s discriminatory and oppressive policies targeting women. Mohammadi has faced personal costs for her...
Read MoreThe death toll from the flash flood in North Sikkim has risen to 44, with six more bodies being found in neighbouring Bengal. The number of missing people has also increased to 142. Rescue attempts have been hindered by bad weather conditions, and families of the missing are anxiously waiting for news. The Sikkim...
Read MoreA high school in India has an unusual situation with five sets of identical twins studying in the same class. The teacher, Juliet Lona D’Sa, struggles to differentiate between the twins and has resorted to calling out their names without making eye contact. This method works for the most part. The twins have been...
Read MoreThe latest excise policy for 2023-24 by the Uttarakhand government includes a new provision allowing individuals to obtain a license for maintaining mini-bars at their residences, subject to specific conditions. Upon approval, license holders are permitted to store up to nine liters of Indian made foreign liquor, 18 liters of foreign alcohol, nine liters...
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