Hathras News LIVE: CM Adityanath Announces Judicial Inquiry; Russian President Putin Expresses Condolences
A stampede at a religious congregation in Hathras killed 121 people on Tuesday as devotees suffocated to their deaths and bodies piled atop each other in the worst such tragedy in recent years. Most of the victims were women. According to the FIR, around 2.5 lakh devotees attended the event while there was permission for only 80,000. The stampede took place as people headed home after a ‘satsang’ in the district’s Phulrai village, conducted by a preacher known as Bhole Baba. READ MORE
Yogi Forms SIT For Hathras Probe, Says ‘Sevadars’ Should’ve Managed Crowd As Stampede Kills 121 From 4 States
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Wednesday a judicial probe into the Hathras stampede, a day after the tragic incident resulted in a death toll of 121, with most victims being women and children. READ MORE
‘First, Baba Ji Will Go’: Hathras Stampede Eyewitnesses Say Their Pleas to Let People Move Out Fell On Deaf Ears
It was the mad rush to collect ‘Bhole Baba’s’ feet ‘dust’ (referred as raj in local parlance), a bid to escape suffocating and extreme humid surroundings and absent-minded decision of Baba’s army to block the ‘exit’ without giving a second thought to the consequences, that led to the deadly stampede at the religious event at Hathras on Tuesday. The stampede at the religious event organised in Phulrai village of Sikanda Rau tehsil of Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district left more than 100 people, including women and children, dead and over 250 grievously injured. READ MORE
‘We Were Just Months Away from Beating Twitter’: Why Is Koo Shutting Down?
Homegrown microblogging startup Koo on Wednesday announced the discontinuation of its services. In a LinkedIn post, its co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka said that at the company’s peak, Koo used to have 10 per cent like ratio, which was 7-10x the ratio Twitter had, and was “just months away from beating Twitter in India in 2022”. READ MORE
Team India to Arrive in India Tomorrow 6:20 AM IST; Meet PM Modi at 11 AM IST; Open Bus Parade at 5 PM IST in Mumbai
An Air India special charter flight named AIC24WC – Air India Champions 24 World Cup – is bringing back the Indian squad, its support staff, the players’ families, board officials and the Indian media, who have been stranded on the island for the past three days due to Hurricane Beryl. As per the schedule, the flight will take off from Barbados at 4:30 am (local time; 2 PM IST). It will take a 16-hour flying time to reach Delhi, where the team will land on Thursday at 6 am (IST) if there are no further delays in their departure. READ MORE
‘UP Loss Was Scripted’: Yogi Adityanath Springs Into Action as BJP Task Force Lists Reasons Behind Poor Show
Dissent within the party and lack of cooperation from the district administrative machinery were two key factors that led to the BJP’s poor show in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections, the party’s task force has said its report submitted to chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The BJP’s tally dropped to 33 seats versus the 62 it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. READ MORE
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