S. Umesh

A massive rescue operation is underway in Kolkata's Taratala area after an under-construction warehouse collapsed, trapping several people. Emergency services, including NDRF and army personnel, are on-site, using heavy machinery to clear debris and search for survivors. Four individuals have been rescued so far. The state government has established control rooms and released helpline numbers for the incident.

A frantic rescue operation is underway in West Kolkata after an under-construction warehouse collapsed, trapping over 20 workers. Cranes, bulldozers, and specialized teams are working tirelessly to free those buried under the debris. Eleven injured have been rescued and hospitalized. Authorities are deploying advanced equipment, including sniffer dogs and drones, to locate survivors amidst the wreckage.

Veteran Kannada actor M.S. Umesh, 83, has been hospitalized after sustaining injuries from a fall at his Bengaluru residence. Known for his comic timing in films like Sankata and Golmaal Radhakrishna, Umesh is receiving medical care. The Kannada film industry and fans are sending well wishes for his recovery.

The film is being directed by Umesh

A worker died and three others were injured after a portion of an underconstruction car parking lift crashed in a residential building in Vikhroli West. The police have registered an FIR against three officials-project manager Amit Kumte, icestone’s official Sunil Tiwari, and Gayatri Aluminum’s Umesh Singh alias Rakesh-for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Police said that the deceased Shivam Jaiswal, 20, was among the three workers who were carrying or setting up the lift when it accidentally fell off.

Almost all major political parties — BJP, Congress, SP, AAP and BSP — have fielded crorepati candidates for mayoral poll in Bareilly. While BJP’s Umesh Gautam, chancellor of a private university here, is the richest candidate with Rs 14.83 crore of total assets, SP’s IS Tomar is second on the list with assets worth Rs 9.65 crore. AAP’s Navneet Agarwal, a local businessman, holds the third spot with assets amounting to Rs 9.34 crore. Congress candidate Ajay Shukla, who is also a businessman, holds assets totaling Rs 5.70 crore, while BSP’s Mohd Yusuf, an exporter, has assets worth Rs 3.10 crore

On the last day of withdrawal of nominations, Brijesh’s papers were withdrawn leaving his wife and former MLC Annapurna Singh in a fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Sudama Patel and Samajwadi Party’s Umesh Kumar in the MLC (local bodies) election from Varanasi seat.

Egyptian dance recital ‘Tanora’ performed by four artistes as part of ‘Jashn-e-Urdu’ festival left the audience enthralled at Rabindra Bhavan on Friday.

Veteran Kannada actor Umesh, known for his over six-decade career and hundreds of films and Television shows, passed away at 80 in Bengaluru. He was undergoing treatment for advanced-stage liver cancer following a fall that caused a head injury. Despite his illness, Umesh maintained his trademark humor, even in his final days.

Bhupendra Singh Byadwal made history for the wrong reasons, becoming the first Indian pencak silat athlete to fail a drug test, resulting in a four-year ban. Several other athletes across different sports also faced sanctions for doping violations.

Days before BJP’s Umesh Gautam is sworn in as mayor, Bareilly Municipal Corporation (BMC) has initiated a move to paint the main entrance of the civic body in saffron colour

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to end the monopoly of jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh’s family on the prestigious Varanasi constituency of MLC (local bodies) election as his wife and Independent candidate Annapurna Singh won this seat.

The city police on Wednesday arrested the former boss of the girl who died after a fatal fall from Ratan Square building near Burlington Crossing on Monday evening. The accused Umesh Yadav allegedly owed the victim Mona Verma alias Chandani Rs 18,000 and had not paid her salary for three months. Police have pressed sections amounting to abetment of suicide and making sexually explicit advances against Umesh.

Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party candidates filed their nomination papers on the concluding day of the nomination process for MLC (local bodies) election here on Monday.

In riot-scarred Muzaffarnagar and Shamli, four of the nine winners in the neighbouring districts have been booked on charges of rioting and criminal intimidation. Suresh Kumar Rana of BJP from Thana Bhawan, Nahid Hasan of SP from Kairana, BJP’s Umesh Malik from Budhana and Vikram Singh from Khatauli – all have rioting and criminal intimidation cases filed against them.

After taking over the reins in December last year, Amravati police chief Navinchandra Reddy has placed social media, especially WhatsApp groups, under special watch of the cyber patrolling team to avert communally-sensitive crimes like last year’s Umesh Kolhe murder.

With Aashiqui 2’s successful run, Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series is expanding its production portfolio with an impressive lineup of films.