New Delhi: Commercial flights from Puducherry to Bengaluru and Hyderabad will resume on March 27. Air services, which had been suspended for two years after covid are now set to resume operations.

According to a press release issued by Chief Minister N Rangasamy’s office, bookings for flights to Bengaluru and Hyderabad have started. Flight services on these routes will have one flight per day, the press release said.

The Puducherry government has approached Indigo Airlines to operate services from Puducherry to Hyderabad, Bangalore, Tirupati, Rajahmundry, Kannur, and Ernakulam to increase transport and connectivity, the report said.

Kathmandu: At least 14 people, including two children, were killed in a road accident in eastern Nepal’s Shankhuwasabha district on Thursday. The bus was traveling from Madi in Shankhuvasabha to Damascus when it met with an accident at Sat Gumti in Madi Municipality-6 at around 7 am.

The bodies of 14 passengers were recovered, said DSP Lal Dhwaj Subedi, head of the district police office and Shankhuvasabha. DSP Subedi said over the phone that five people were injured.

The initial conclusion of the police was that speeding was the cause of the accident. Five of the injured were airlifted to hospital. There were 21 people on the bus. The injured are being treated at Chainpur Hospital.

New Delhi: The BJP has secured continuity of government in the Hindi heartland of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and the northeastern state of Manipur. The BJP, the largest single party in Goa, retained power with the help of independents. Adityanath will be the next Chief Minister of UP, which has been in power for three decades. Out of 403 in the state, the BJP won 274 constituencies.

 This is a decrease of 48 seats compared to the last election. The Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance, which made great strides, won 124 seats. The Congress won two seats, the BSP one, and the others two. In the 2017 elections, the BJP won 312 seats. SP jumped from 47 seats. It was able to win an additional 72 seats. The BJP was reduced from 19 seats to one seat, while the Congress, which had won seven seats, was reduced to two seats by a heavy margin. In Manipur, the BJP won 32 of the 60 assembly seats. Biren Singh himself will be the Chief Minister of the state.

The Congress, which contested in 54 seats, won only five seats. The National People’s Party, which stood alone outside the BJP alliance, won seven seats and became the second-largest party. The JDU won six seats and the others ten. The largest party in the state in the 2017 elections was Congress. This time 23 seats were lost. In Uttarakhand, where exit polls predicted a Congress-BJP alliance, the result was reversed. Congress could not fight the BJP for long. But the defeat of incumbent Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami was a setback for the BJP. The BJP won 48 seats, the Congress 18, the BJP two, and the others two. Goa needs 21 seats for a simple majority in the 40 – member assembly. The BJP has improved its tally from 20 seats to 20 seats. The Congress won 12 seats and the Trinamool won two. AAP and Independents won three seats each.

New Delhi: General coaches in train resumes. From May 1, all trains on the Southern Railway will have unreserved coaches in the event of a relaxation of the covid control.

Step-by-step work has been started for this. It will resume on six trains in Thiruvananthapuram and Palakkad divisions from Thursday. 12683 Ernakulam-Banaswadi, 12778 Kochuveli-Hubli, 16525 Kanyakumari-Bengaluru, 07378 Mangalore-Vijayapura, 16566 Mangalore-Yesvantpur, and 16586 Mangalore-Bangalore were allotted coaches.

Srinagar: Troops killed three militants in two separate clashes in Jammu and Kashmir. Two militants were killed in a clash at Naina Batpora in the Pulwama district. Clashes between the militants and the army continue in the area. Another clash took place in the Hazratbal area of Srinagar. Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed in Hazratbal Security officials said the search for the two survivors was ongoing. The search was carried out following a tip-off that militants were present in both areas.

Meanwhile, the body of a soldier who went missing three days ago from Jammu and Kashmir. Found in Budgam district. Sameer Ahmed Malla, a soldier, went missing from Lokipora village in Khag Budgam on Monday afternoon. Police later found the body in Khag, 61 km from Lokipora.

The deceased was a soldier working in the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, police said. A soldier who was on leave for the birth of his second child has gone missing from home. A detailed investigation into the incident is underway, police said.