A 17-year-old boy drowned in a well near Sagwadi in Charkop Mumbai: Two youngsters drowned in separate incidents in Kandivli on Wednesday. A 17-year-old boy, Preet Ganve, drowned in a well near Sagwadi in Charkop and a 22-year-old man, Sonu Vishwakarma, drowned in Dingeshwar lake at Charkop. Police suspect he was inebriated when he entered…
Heavy rainfall preceded the incident, prompting an immediate rescue operation. NEW DELHI: One dead, one rescued as a four-storey building collapsed in north west Delhi’s Rohini Sector 16 on Wednesday evening amid rainfall, triggering a major rescue operation as several people are feared trapped beneath the debris.The incident comes just over a month after a…
Chennai: TNCC and the BJP state units were locked in a war of words on Wednesday over Karnataka’s proposed Mekedatu dam, with the exchange extending to Centre-state relations, federalism and corruption.TNCC president P Manickam Tagore accused the BJP-led Union govt of fuelling confrontation between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka instead of resolving the Cauvery dispute. “BJP…
A girl’s rape and murder in Baruipur triggered widespread outrage and protests. Locals then lynched a man suspected of involvement in the crime. The prime suspect in the girl’s death was killed in an alleged police encounter KOLKATA: In the span of three to four days, the quiet town of Baruipur in West Bengal’s South…
Mahabaleshwar was lashed by cloudburst-like rain on Tuesday, recording 403mm in 24 hours and a staggering 916mm over the past 48 hours Pune: Extremely heavy rain continued to batter parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday with several locations in the Sahyadri Ghats logging 500-600mm in the past 24 hours. The popular hill station of Mahabaleshwar in…
At a pond adjacent to Three Kings Hall at Cansaulim, sailfin catfish (sucker fish) is one of the invasives found Exotic fish introduced through aquaculture and the aquarium trade are steadily taking over Goa’s waterbodies. From Batim to Cuelim and Curtorim, fishermen are increasingly hauling in African catfish and tilapia instead of the indigenous fish…
In India, silver is used across a wide range of segments, including jewellery, coins, bars and industrial applications. (AI image) India’s curbs on silver imports have triggered supply shortages in the country’s domestic market, driving premiums to their highest level in six months even as demand remains weaker than usual.As India relies on imports to…
D Gukesh and Hans Niemann The Chennai Grand Masters 2026 returns from July 16 to July 22 at The Westin Chennai Velachery. It will bring together some of the world’s best chess players for the fourth edition of India’s strongest classical chess tournament. With reigning World Chess Champion Gukesh Dommaraju leading the field, the event…
Bollywood actor Shilpa Shirodkar recently looked back on a frightening incident from the early 1990s when she nearly drowned while shooting the song ‘Sanam Mere Sanam’ with Govinda for the film ‘Hum’. She revealed that film sets at the time lacked even basic safety measures, with no life jackets or rescue arrangements in place.During the…
German doctor given life in prison for 15 murders, suspected on 76 more A German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients, with prosecutors investigating 76 other cases that could make it one of the worst serial murder cases in Germany’s history.A court in Berlin found the…
