Residents said modifications were made to the structure over the years Thane: A 12-year-old boy was crushed to death, while his mother and his nine-year-old brother sustained head injuries after a portion of their nearly 30-year-old one-storey tenement collapsed on them in a chawl in Thane’s Azad Nagar on Friday.The mother, Urmila Jaiswar (35), and…
New Delhi: A 35-year-old maths teacher, Amit Bishnoi, has been apprehended by Delhi Police’s Special Cell for allegedly surveilling a businessman and sharing a video of his office with jailed gangster Harry Boxer to facilitate a Rs 10-crore extortion bid.Amit, a B.Tech graduate from Hisar, Haryana, has been working as a teacher at coaching institutes…
Porur, Maduravoyal, Kodungaiyur, Chepauk, Chennai airport, and Panaiyur are sinking by up to 15mm a year, a new study has found. The authors attribute this to a gradual compression of soft clay, silt, and sand beneath the ground, local geological conditions and urban infrastructure loading.The worst subsidence was recorded across an 18sqkm stretch between Porur…
Lord Jagannath temple in Jamalpur illuminated ahead of the 149th annual Rath Yatra procession of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balbhadra, and Goddess Shubhadra Devi Ahmedabad: Ahead of the 149th Jagannath Rath Yatra on July 16, Ahmedabad mayor Hitesh Barot on Thursday conducted a joint inspection of the entire 14km route to review civic amenities, security measures…
Kolkata: Storage battery major Exide Industries is likely to invest Rs 1,400 crore more this fiscal in its Bengaluru-based lithium-ion cell manufacturing plant to take the total investment to Rs 6,000 crore, MD and CEO Avik Roy said after the company’s annual general meeting on Friday. The first phase has a capacity of 6 GWh.Roy…
Standard MSRTC buses would be used for the 200 extra trips between Pune and Mumbai Pune: State transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Friday evening said there would be 200 additional MSRTC bus trips daily between Pune and Mumbai from Saturday to manage the rush following the cancellation of three Pune–Mumbai intercity trains till July 17.Standard…
MUMBAI: India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $7.3 billion to $674.2 billion in the week ended July 3, driven largely by an increase in foreign currency assets and a rise in the value of gold holdings. The gain reflects both valuation effects and accretion in underlying assets, with the two dominant components of reserves accounting…
Norway’s historic run to the 2026 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals has been powered by a striker who is changing the way modern football is played.Erling Haaland has turned his long-awaited World Cup debut into a global spectacle. The Manchester City forward has scored seven goals in four matches, including a crucial brace that helped Norway…
Rajpal Yadav shares first Instagram post featuring Akshay Kumar after Delhi High Court upholds conviction in cheque bounce case Rajpal Yadav has shared his first Instagram post after the Delhi High Court upheld his conviction in a cheque bounce case, sentencing him to three months’ imprisonment. Interestingly, the actor’s latest social media update is a…
Pakistan has claimed that its security forces killed 75 militants during days-long operations launched after a series of deadly attacks on police, security personnel and civilians in the restive province of Balochistan. The operations targeted the banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which Islamabad has blamed for the attacks.According to the Balochistan government, the operations involving…
