Former DMK minister Thoppu Venkatachalam quits party, cites “bitter experiences” in last Assembly election ERODE: Former minister and Erode Central district secretary Thoppu ND Venkatachalam has resigned from DMK, relinquishing his basic membership and party responsibilities.Venkatachalam told reporters in Perundurai on Monday that he had sent a letter informing party president and former chief minister…
Sunanda, daughter of Ranajit Howladar, at her residence in Behala Kolkata: Five days after flash floods ravaged parts of Nepal, families of missing Bengal tourists are clutching at every possible lead — a last phone ping, an immigration record, a survivor list, emailing the Chinese govt, or even checking the possibility of travelling to the…
A political dispute arose when Amit Thackeray asked for Prime Minister Modi’s photo removal PUNE: A political row erupted on Monday when MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s son Amit Thackeray asked his supporters to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photo installed next to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s photo at a government polytechnic institute in Pune.Amit was on…
A close-up of the Bhagavad Gita holy book with ornate Sanskrit text and decorative cover details, symbolizing Hindu scripture, spirituality, and Indian religious tradition. Panaji: Our intelligence quotient and emotional quotient-obsessed institutions, schools, armies, corporations, quietly fail people. The framework to making a complete human being actually lies in our older roots in the upanishads,…
India has become an important source of gasoline, or petrol, for Russia. There is a strange irony to the situation. Russia, known to be one of the world’s biggest oil exports and a country among the top 10 with highest crude reserves, is being forced to import petrol. What’s even more interesting is that the…
A bitter rent dispute split Everton and created Liverpool, shaping Merseyside’s fiercest football rivalry. Merseyside’s oldest rivalry likes to present itself as a story about football, about who has bragging rights to a city split down the middle. But strip away 130 years of scarves and songs and what’s left is a much smaller and…
Shalini Pandey has spoken out against a purportedly morphed video of her that has been circulating across social media platforms. The clip, which falsely appears to show the actor topless, has been categorically dismissed by Pandey as fake and AI-generated.Addressing the issue on Instagram on Monday, Pandey urged users to refrain from sharing or engaging…
The natural landscape Edmondson created also became the setting for Log House Holidays. (Photos: LHH) Anthony Edmondson spent his life’s earnings buying a 130-acre abandoned gravel pit in the Cotswolds, south central England, in the 1980s. He planted 50,000 trees, sowed wildflowers and added reeds to the water which over the years, has transformed the…
PC: By Taishonambu/Wikipedia Oysters can carry a type of bacteria that can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in people, yet the shellfish can carry the microbe without showing the same kind of illness. The organism is Vibrio vulnificus, an estuarine bacterium that can become closely associated with American oyster tissues. Researchers have found that…
Can you guess India’s Milk Capital? Here’s why this Gujarat city earned the title Some Indian cities are famous for monuments, some for food, and others for industries that shaped the country. Then there is Anand, a city in Gujarat whose identity is closely linked to something found in almost every Indian kitchen: milk.Anand is…
