TNNPanaji: After a public backlash, Goa govt has decided to waive penalties imposed on electricity consumers for using power beyond their sanctioned load. Penalties already collected will be returned and adjusted as credit in future bills for consumers who have paid, chief electrical engineer Stephen Fernandes said on Wednesday.Fernandes said that the decision was taken…
Image(s): Smithsonian Gardens Magnolia trees are admired around the world for their large, fragrant flowers, but they also preserve one of the oldest evolutionary stories in the plant kingdom. Long before bees, butterflies or many modern flowering plants appeared, magnolias were already blooming across prehistoric landscapes. Fossil evidence suggests the ancestors of modern magnolias evolved…
Pune district collector Jitendra Dudi at the Road Safety Committee meeting on Friday Pune: The district administration has set Oct 10 as the deadline to eliminate 43 black spots through necessary road-safety measures, moving the exercise into the implementation phase after agencies were earlier directed to inspect accident-prone locations and submit their findings, senior officials…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Sachin Tendulkar After much anticipation and a delay which felt longer than it was, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi finally made his India debut on Saturday, becoming the youngest player to represent the country in international cricket when he took the field in the second T20I against England at Old Trafford in Manchester.The 15-year-old from Bihar’s…
Argentina players hold a banner with the words “The Malvinas are Argentine”, referring to the Falkland Islands, at the end of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between England and Argentina in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) The White House has publicly defended the right of Argentina’s players to display the controversial Falklands…
India’s Rs 100 crore income club is no longer as exclusive as it once was. More people are reporting nine-figure incomes in their tax returns, with the number rising to 576 in the 2025-26 assessment year, four times the count recorded five years ago, according to data shared by the government in Parliament on Monday.The…
Behrampore: Nowda MLA Humayun Kabir was interrogated by Rejinagar police for the second time on Tuesday over the AJUP chief’s alleged provocative speech at a public rally. He was earlier questioned for four hours on July 4.On Tuesday, Kabir reached the AJUP district office at Rejinagar about an hour before the interrogation. After a short…
Ahmedabad/Surat/Vadodara: CA Intermediate exam results declared by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) on Wednesday have delivered a mixed picture for Gujarat. While pass percentages remained modest across major cities, students made a strong mark nationally, with 13 candidates from Ahmedabad and Surat featuring in the all-India Top 50 ranks. Moksh Rathod Ahmedabad produced…
PUNE: Police on Thursday took Siya Goyal, the prime accused in the Ketan Agarwal murder case to Lohagad Fort, where she and co-accused Chetan Chaudhary allegedly rehearsed pushing her fiance Ketan Agarwal off a cliff before the incident, officials said.Investigators also recovered the clothes Goyal is alleged to have worn on June 18, the day…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has warned NEET UG 2026 candidates against using fabricated or AI-generated OMR sheets and scorecards, saying such offences could result in criminal prosecution, cancellation of candidature and debarment from future exams. It urged students to rely only on official documents and submit grievances through authorised channels, as manipulated records cannot…
