Ahmedabad: Afternoon drizzle brought brief relief to parts of Ahmedabad on Friday, even as overcast skies kept conditions warm and humid across the city.The mercury touched 33.3°C, 1.2 degrees above normal, while the minimum of 26.7°C was 1.3 degrees above normal. Relative humidity eased marginally through the day, tapering from 76% in the morning to…
The ‘yajna’ continued for one and a half hours following which PVKS members distributed prasad Kolkata: Members of Paschimbanga Visvavidyalaya Karmachari Sangh (PVKS), JU unit, performed a ‘yajna’ at the portico of the university’s administrative building, Aurobindo Bhavan, demanding removal of acting registrar Selim Box Mandal and acting finance officer Shiladitya Chatterjee and for the…
Pune: A man and his female partner allegedly duped a jeweller of nearly Rs15 lakh on pretext of purchasing gold jewellery. Chandannagar police are searching for them.The accused gained the confidence of the branch manager of the showroom and gave him a cheque, which subsequently bounced. The manager lodged a complaint with the police on…
Under the presidentship of Shripad Naik, Goa hosted the Lusofonia Games 2014 and National Games 2023 Panaji: Sadanand Shet Tanavade has emerged as a consensus candidate to take over as president of the Goa Olympic Association (GOA) with elections scheduled to be held later this month.The Rajya Sabha MP is president of the Goa Lacrosse…
The move will enable banks to earn a decent spread by deploying funds raised from FCNR(B) deposits where the yields are around 7%. MUMBAI: RBI has exempted advances against fresh FCNR(B) and NRE term deposits from priority sector lending calculations, completing a three-part policy push to boost foreign currency inflows and ease compliance burdens for…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) FIFA president Gianni Infantino has strongly denied allegations that UEFA funds were used to finance a severance package for a former employee with whom he allegedly had a relationship during his time as UEFA general secretary.The allegations, published in an investigation by The Daily Telegraph, claim the…
Dating rumours swirled around actress Mrunal Thakur, 34, and cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal, 24, after a video capturing them at the same Mumbai cafe went viral online. The footage, shot in Bandra West, fuelled speculation across social media, with multiple fan pages speculating that the two might be dating. Mrunal Thakur reacts to viral video with…
The bill also bars the Trump administration from shifting federal funds to the Border Patrol from other programmes. The US Senate on Saturday passed a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government funded through December 11, in a bid to avoid a shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections.The bill passed 90-6, with one…
The Moon does not travel across the sky at a constant pace. Its speed changes throughout each orbit, a detail ancient astronomers noticed long before they had the mathematics to explain it fully. More than two thousand years ago, the makers of the Antikythera Mechanism found a way to reproduce this unevenness using bronze gears…
Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida Tom Rahill, the 69-year-old veteran hunter, won this year’s Florida Python Challenge by catching 96 pythons individually, Fox News reported.For over 10 days, 907 participants combed the Everglades and pulled out 280 invasive Burmese pythons this year.Just months earlier, in January, contracted hunter Carl Jackson and his…
