At least seven troopers were killed when a bus carrying 37 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Jammu & Kashmir Police personnel fell into a river at Chandanwari in Pahalgam, around 90km from Srinagar, on Tuesday. The personnel were returning to Srinagar after their deployment for the security of Amarnath Yatra ended. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. |
THE BIG STORY Bus with 39 ITBP men, cops falls in J&K gorge At least seven troopers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were killed and 32 people injured — some of them critically — when a bus ferrying ITBP and Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel fell into a deep gorge in Anantnag district on Tuesday, officials said. Those injured were taken for treatment to hospitals in Srinagar and Anantnag, police said, after teams were deployed at the site of the accident to carry out rescue operations. Read more. |
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The Big Question What’s next for the AIFF as FIFA bans all Indian teams from playing? Football’s apex body on Tuesday suspended India as a member, flagging “interference by a third party” in the running of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) — an unprecedented move that bars all teams from the country from playing internationals or friendlies for the first time in 85 years, and puts in jeopardy the women’s under-17 World Cup scheduled to be held in India this October. Read more. |
 X links them all: A Neil Gaiman character who controls all dreams. A song title common to Metallica and The Chordettes. A Spiderman villain. An American “Hardcore Icon” of wrestling? What is X? |
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From the Edit Page Biden bounces back, but will it be enough? Even as attention in America has turned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s raid on Donald Trump’s residence-cum-resort in Florida — the former President seems to have run off with top secret documents — the real political story of the last month is Joe Biden’s comeback. Read more. |
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Number Theory Four charts which explain inflation and its economic impact July data for both Consumer Price Index a(CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is out now. What is the larger macroeconomic takeaway from these numbers? Read more. |
From the Field From Ganpati to dahi-handi, political battle for Mumbai gets a festive twist The city may have been named after Mumba Devi but Mumbai’s presiding deity, undeniably, is Lord Ganesh, who has now been roped into the political battlefield where the Shiv Sena and Shinde’s Sena are arrayed against one another. One of chief minister Eknath Shinde’s earliest decisions after staging a palace coup was to lift all restrictions imposed by his predecessor, Uddhav Thackeray, on celebrations of the 10-day Ganesh Utsav that runs from August 31 to September 9, and also the dahi handi celebrations on Gokulashtami that falls on August 19. Read more. |
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