Chennai: Several banners and hoardings erected across the city were knocked off during the rain on Thursday, endangering the lives and limbs of road-users and residents. The local bodies have now begun a drive to remove all the illegal structures across the city.At Maduravoyal, a steel advertisement structure fell on an electricity distribution structure near…
New Delhi: Several parts of Delhi received moderate showers Wednesday, leading to a drastic drop in the temperature and giving the city its best air quality since last Sept.With two consecutive days of rain, the air quality improved from moderate to satisfactory at 59 against 113 a day earlier, on a scale of 0 to…
Five schoolchildren were thrown out of a moving private school van after its rear door reportedly opened mid-journey near Gayathri Layout in KR Pura, Bengaluru, on Friday morning. Three children were injured in the incident.The children were seated at the back of the van when the rear door suddenly opened, causing them to fall onto…
Kolkata: Controversy over the renaming of Park Circus’s Suhrawardy Avenue as Gopal Mukherjee Road intensified on Monday, with CM Suvendu Adhikari indicating that more such renamings could follow, while Trinamool, Congress and Left leaders accused the BJP govt of conflating educationist Hassan Suhrawardy, after whom the road was named, with former undivided Bengal prime minister…
Confidence rarely arrives through one grand moment. It is built quietly, almost invisibly, through hundreds of ordinary interactions that children experience every day. A parent’s reaction after a failed test, the way they respond to endless questions, whether they listen without interrupting or allow a child to solve a small problem alone, these moments may…
Representative Image of the Chicxulub asteroid striking Earth amid devastated prehistoric landscapes (AI-generated image) Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide slammed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, gouging out the Chicxulub crater and triggering the most devastating mass extinction event in the history of complex life on Earth. Non-avian dinosaurs,…
BJP neta and Bengal panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh (file photo) Kolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that a section of party workers was engaging in corruption, senior BJP neta and state panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh said extortion culture can’t be ended overnight.“This (extortion) culture cannot be ended overnight. We have asked…
The blaze broke out at an open-plot firecracker manufacturing and processing unit on Ramol-Gatrad Road Ahmedabad: Following a devastating fire at a firecracker unit in Mahamadpura on Friday afternoon, Ahmedabad mayor Hitesh Barot, standing committee chairperson Kamlesh Patel, and senior civic and police officials rushed to the scene. Ordering immediate medical aid for the victims,…
India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal (PTI Photo) Ajinkya Rahane has opened up about one of the most talked-about incidents involving him and Yashasvi Jaiswal, revealing that his intervention during the 2022 Duleep Trophy final may have prevented the young batter from receiving a four-match ban.The relationship between Rahane and Jaiswal has been a subject of considerable discussion…
Pop-up choirs are reclaiming that nostalgia of school choir practice For many Delhiites, the last time they sang in a choir was during a school assembly, annual day performance, or inter-school competition. The lyrics may have faded, but the memory of dozens of voices coming together in harmony remains. Ahead of World Music Day (June…
