At Masjid Bunder’s Indian Sailors’ Home, history survives in photos Beyond a row of shanties on the garbage-lined Thana street in Masjid Bunder hides a 95year-old triangular building that Dr Farzana Ansari’s husband likes to call “keechad mein kamal” — a lotus in the muck.For two hours every evening since 2024, the cheerful burqa-clad doctor…
NEW DELHI: A controversy has erupted in northwest Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar after a CCTV video allegedly showed a sub-inspector (SI) slapping two women during a police intervention at a hotel.The incident reportedly took place in Panchwati, where police had reached following a late-night clash between two groups.According to allegations made by the women, the SI…
Chennai: Three people, including a 17-year-old boy, were arrested by the Singaperumal Koil police for assaulting a 20-year-old man and stealing his motorcycle on the Chennai-Trichy highway near Chengalpet. Police are searching for their accomplice who sold the stolen motorcycle.The victim, Saravanan, 20, of Padalam near Madhurantakam, was working at a textile shop. On the…
Ramprasad Chowdhury, who was injured construction workers of the Taratala warehouse collapse in Kolkata at SSKM hospital. Kolkata: For nearly five agonising hours, 22-year-old Ramprasad Chowdhury lay trapped under tonnes of concrete and steel, fearing each moment could be his last.A massive reinforced concrete beam fell on his right leg and crushed it. But rescuers…
A frail grandfather expressed deep feelings of betrayal PUNE: The family of Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal on Saturday joined residents of their housing society in a candlelight march seeking justice for the 25-year-old, with his grandfather, parents and other relatives demanding stringent action against the accused in the alleged murder case.The march, held at the…
The AI investment boom is “generating tremendous valuations” for companies in US stock markets and countries such as South Korea, creating a wealth effect that could add to price pressures, Gourinchas said in an interview with Bloomberg News. Artificial intelligence (AI) could fuel inflation not only by pushing up the cost of semiconductors and technology…
Auqib Nabi’s four-wicket spell with the second new ball helped India A take control of the first unofficial Test against Sri Lanka A on the third day, giving the visitors an overall lead of 170 runs.Starting the day on 113 for 2, Sri Lanka A looked well placed and reached 300 for 5 before Nabi…
Veteran Tamil filmmaker and actor K Bhagyaraj passed away on Saturday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 73. Just days before his death, Bhagyaraj had made what would become his final public appearance at the wedding of Khushbu Sundar and Sundar C’s daughter, Avantika, in Goa. Videos from the ceremony have now surfaced on…
Haitian proverb of the day shows us the enemy within. When something goes wrong, we always suspect the hand of the outsiders and give the benefit of doubt to our nearest ones, though they might have the maximum scope and access to stab us in the back. An old Haitian proverb warned us about such…
Hold a three-pound weight in your hand. It isn’t much. A small bag of flour, maybe a chubby kitten. And yet, according to the physicist Michio Kaku, you’re holding the rough weight of the most complicated thing in our entire solar system. The brain weighs only three pounds, he wrote, yet it is the most…
