On Monday, July 13, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) received an email bomb threat, which the Mumbai police later determined to be a hoax. Following the alert, authorities initiated an immediate investigation, but a thorough search revealed no explosives. The threat was sent to a BSE employee from an email address impersonating ‘Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan,’...
A woman traveling from Doha to Mumbai was apprehended at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Monday for allegedly smuggling cocaine valued at ₹62.6 crore, as reported by news agency PTI. The individual was intercepted at the airport by officials from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) following a tip-off. A thorough search of her...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court provided protection to a cartoonist accused of disseminating purportedly objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS members on social media. A panel consisting of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Aravind Kumar stated that if the cartoonist were to post any further offensive content on social media, the state would...
On Tuesday, July 15, 2025, the Juvenile Justice Board announced that the 17-year-old boy charged with driving a Porsche while intoxicated and causing the deaths of two individuals last year in Pune will be tried as a juvenile. The tragic event, which garnered national attention, occurred in the Kalyani Nagar area on May 19, 2024,...
A 25-year-old tourist from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, lost his life when his paraglider crashed at a take-off site in Indrunag, Himachal Pradesh, on Monday evening. The paragliding site at Indrunag is situated in the outskirts of Dharamshala. According to Kangra District Additional Superintendent of Police Hitesh Lakhanpal, the accident occurred during take-off when the glider failed...
Former Odisha Chief Minister and BJD leader Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday accused the BJP-led state government of “institutional betrayal” and “planned injustice” following the tragic death of a college student who self-immolated after allegedly facing sexual harassment and weeks of seeking assistance from authorities. The 20-year-old B.Ed. student from Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College in Balasore...
A 20-year-old student from Fakir Mohan Autonomous College in Balasore, Odisha, sadly passed away on July 14 at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, just three days after she set herself on fire. Medical reports indicate that she sustained nearly 95 percent burns in a desperate protest against the lack of action regarding her sexual harassment complaint against a...
Veteran actor and producer Dheeraj Kumar has been admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. The 79-year-old, a well-known figure in Indian cinema and television, was hospitalized on Monday after experiencing breathing difficulties. Currently, he is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) receiving ventilator support due to acute pneumonia. His family has made a...
A police officer conducted a search operation at the St Stephen’s College grounds following a bomb threat received via email, in New Delhi, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. On Monday, both Delhi’s St Thomas School in the Dwarka area and St Stephen’s College of Delhi University were reported to have received bomb threats, according to...
The body of a bank manager, who had been reported missing from Patna, was discovered in a well located in the Beur area, as stated by officials. Authorities also located his scooter within the same well, which has raised concerns regarding the circumstances of his death. An investigation is currently in progress. Abhishek Varun, who...