The judge found the allegations “strikingly similar”, made at the same time and at a common place, indicating “prior meticulous planning”. NEW DELHI: A court, which last week acquitted former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for lack of evidence, held that the sexual harassment allegations against him…
Domestic tractor sales stood at 77,482 units in July 2026 Chennai: Domestic tractor sales grew 20.5% year-on-year in July but declined sharply by 38.5% sequentially from June volumes. The month-on-month decline is considered a seasonal trend, with tractor sales typically moderating in July after peaking in June.Industry representatives and analysts, however, believe the underlying demand…
Gandhinagar: Digital crop survey will be taken up for a period of 45 days from Aug 15 under Centre’s ‘AgriStack’ project, the state govt informed on Monday.Approximately 95 lakh survey plots of all cultivable areas located in 18,197 villages of all districts of Gujarat will be covered in this survey.Surveyors will visit each field/survey number…
Kolkata: Five days after an 86-year-old man was fatally run over while taking an evening walk inside Uniworld City complex in New Town, police on Sunday arrested a 47-year-old woman who was allegedly learning to drive an SUV when it veered out of a parking area and ploughed into pedestrians.The deceased, Sribas Chandra Ojha, was…
Pune: Antony Lara Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Antony Waste Handling Cell Ltd, which operates the waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at Moshi garbage depot, has decided to increase the compensation for the families of the nine people who died in the July 8 garbage heap collapse.The company’s HR head, Sunil Neve, said the compensation…
Bibiano Fernandes was the technical committee’s top choice for the U-15 job Panaji: Bibiano Fernandes has accepted an offer from the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to coach the national team for the FIFA U-15 World Cup & Festival 2026 later this year in Azerbaijan.The former India U-17 coach was the technical committee’s top choice…
Crude prices jump over 1% as Hormuz reopening Oil prices rose over 1% on Monday as prospects of reopening Hormuz remained stuck in limbo. Brent crude gained 1.32% to $84.65 a barrel, around 7:30 am IST while WTI crude rose 1.04% to $78.99 a barrel.The rise came after both benchmarks fell more than 7% last…
Brad Pitt reveals return to drinking after 7 years of sobriety, says ‘family stuff’ affected mental health; recalls suicidal thoughts Brad Pitt has opened up about a deeply difficult period in his life, revealing that personal and “family stuff” contributed to a decline in his mental health. The Oscar-winning actor, 62, also spoke about his…
Quote of the day by Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, once observed that passive wishful thinking holds no real value if there was no action put behind it. She stated that she did not believe in people just hoping, insisting that people must work for…
In September 2022, Nasa carried out a mission that had never been attempted before: deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its path through space. The target was Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos. Neither object posed any danger to Earth, which made the pair an ideal testing ground…
