Mumbai: Social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat on Thursday told the Legislative Assembly that work on the statue to be erected at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar at Indu Mills was stuck due to the increased rate of bronze.Shirsat admitted when work on the statue was commissioned in 2018, the price of bronze was Rs 8 per inch,…
New Delhi: Outside, the weekend afternoon drifts by in a familiar haze. The traffic has thinned, the sun hangs heavy, and the city seems to have agreed, briefly, to slow down. Inside a room at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), nothing does.The moment the door opens, movement replaces the lull. Hands are already…
CHENNAI: As many as 61,386 candidates are set to take the Tamil Nadu Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) paper 1 at 222 examination centres on Saturday, and 1.67 lakh will take paper 2 at 613 centres on Sunday.Hall tickets for this TET exam, being held for in-service teachers, have been uploaded on the Teachers Recruitment Board…
Kolkata: A video of two traffic officials, including a sergeant, has gone viral after an alleged incident near Narkeldanga bridge on Wednesday morning.Locals claimed that a young biker was injured after a traffic sergeant allegedly kicked him while he was riding. They said the rider lost balance, fell on the road, and was taken to…
Siya Goyal (R) and her alleged lover, Chetan Chaudhary (L), are facing polygraph and gait analysis tests in connection with the alleged murder of realtor Ketan Agarwal (M). PUNE: With no eyewitnesses yet in the alleged murder of Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal at Lohagad Fort, police are increasingly relying on forensic techniques, digital evidence and…
Dalal Street ended Thursday on a bright note, with benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty closing nearly 1% higher. The momentum was buoyed by a sharp rally in IT stocks and easing crude oil prices as geopolitical tensions showed signs of cooling. The 30-share BSE Sensex gained 579.48 points, or 0.75%, to close at 77,502.12…
Indian badminton players will begin adapting to a new era of scoring from this month after the Badminton Association of India (BAI) confirmed the introduction of the 3×15 rally-point system across the country’s domestic circuit.The revised format will make its debut at the Yonex-Sunrise All India Senior Ranking Tournament, scheduled to be held at the…
Akshay Kumar sells two premium Mumbai apartments for Rs 12.38 crore, earns nearly 38% appreciation Akshay Kumar has sold two luxury apartments in Mumbai’s Mulund West for a combined Rs 12.38 crore. According to property registration documents accessed by CRE Matrix, the actor had purchased the properties in October 2017 for close to Rs 9…
Wildfires ripped through southern France on Thursday, scorching a combined area of 1,210 hectares of land as strong winds and tinder-dry conditions left by Europe’s recent heatwave fuelled rapidly spreading blazes.Hundreds of firefighters, supported by water-bomber aircraft and emergency vehicles, were deployed across the affected regions as authorities raced to contain the fires, Reuters reported.The…
For decades, palaeontologists have puzzled over a scene preserved in rock across parts of Mongolia and China. Fossilised oviraptor dinosaurs were repeatedly found sitting over nests in a posture that looked strikingly familiar. Their forelimbs spread across the clutch, their bodies positioned above the eggs, almost as if they were brooding like modern birds.The image…
