Confiscated illegal firearms displayed on a police evidence table beside case files and an “Firing cases data” document, set against a muted Rajasthan map highlighting Dholpur, Jaipur, Kotputli-Behror, Kota and Sikar, illustrating rising gun violence and illegal arms in the state. Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad city crime branch on Wednesday arrested a 27-year-old man and seized six…
PIL on Iskcon proposal for school midday meals Kolkata: Only an offer came, nothing further, the state govt told the Calcutta High Court in a PIL, challenging the proposal to entrust Iskcon with preparing and supplying cooked meals under PM-POSHAN to KMC schools.Though it called the PIL “premature”, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice…
A landslide at the foothills of Neel Parvat in Nashik has cut off road connectivity to a local settlement Pune/Kolhapur: Triple-digit rainfall continued to pound Maharashtra’s Western Ghats on Wednesday, disrupting movement and prompting authorities to restrict access to tourist hotspots, including Mahabaleshwar.Bhira topped the Western Ghats rainfall chart with 574mm in the 24 hours…
Colva: A delegation of few sarpanchs from the coastal belt of the Benaulim constituency met the superintendent engineer of the electricity department in Margao to raise concerns over the frequent power outages affecting Cavelossim, Carmona, Orlim, Varca, Benaulim, Colva and Seraulim.Varca Sarpanch Flavia Barreto highlighted the difficulties faced by residents due to frequent voltage fluctuations….
India has poked holes in US’s plans to impose another tariff series linked to alleged forced labour, arguing that its own approach is inconsistent and the issue be dealt with through bilateral trade negotiations instead of unilateral action. Speaking before a panel of the US Trade Representative (USTR) earlier on Wednesday, Brij Mohan Mishra, joint…
NEW DELHI: Do you remember the feeling of sitting your Class 10 board exam? Very few don’t feel butterflies in their stomach beforehand. For India’s 98th Grandmaster (GM) Aswath S, the board exam meant putting the chessboard, his lifelong companion, aside for four months, from the start of the year until April, for the sake…
At a time when films like ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Varanasi’ are making waves online for mega-budgets to the tune of Rs 4,000 crore and Rs 1,400 crore, respectively, Shah Rukh Khan‘s movie ‘King’ also hit the headlines over buzz about its budget.‘King’ budget creates buzz onlineRumours doing the rounds online claim that ‘King’, featuring a star-studded…
Flight instructor Leandro Andrés Bertazzo (left) and a Cessna 150 training aircraft. A routine flight lesson in Argentina turned into an unimaginable emergency after a flight instructor told his 22-year-old student, “You know what to do,” before jumping from the aircraft without a parachute. Left alone in the cockpit, the trainee remained calm, contacted air…
For years, the idea that Mars once held vast amounts of water has remained one of planetary science’s most persistent questions. Dry river valleys, mineral deposits, and ancient lake basins have all hinted that the planet looked very different billions of years ago, but proving the existence of a true ocean has been far more…
Some children can turn a five-minute walk into an hour-long adventure. They stop to watch ants carrying food, ask why the moon follows the car, collect oddly shaped leaves, or insist on knowing how a fan spins without falling from the ceiling. To adults, these may seem like endless interruptions. To a child, they are…
