Patchwork done on VIP Road. photo Mayukh Sengupta Kolkata: The deep craters that turned VIP Road into a death trap for thousands of commuters are finally getting a temporary fix.After a week of traffic nightmare, the state PWD has begun replacing some of the arterial road’s worst monsoon craters with paver blocks in a stopgap…
With just days left for its worldwide release, ‘Jana Nayagan’ has entered the final phase of its promotional journey. The H. Vinoth-directed entertainer, starring Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay, is one of the most anticipated releases of the year. The film is scheduled to hit theatres on July 23, 2026, in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi,…
LGD units in Surat are exploring Odisha as a potential destination for upcoming projects Surat: Senior govt officials and key lab grown diamond (LGD) industry players met in Gandhinagar recently to discuss priorities and policy expectations, amid rising interest in new project locations driven by power and capital incentives.The meeting followed the Odisha govt’s recent…
Chess grandmaster Nihal Sarin is gearing up for Esports World Cup At 5 pm on a Wednesday, the massive wooden gates of Ghanshyam Villa in Navi Mumbai are closed. They look like they rarely open. There is no doorbell. “Knock, and the watchman will appear,” suggests a young neighbour. We obey. The watchman peeps through…
The BCECEB is likely to release the DCECE 2026 Round 2 seat allotment result today for Polytechnic Engineering admissions in Bihar. Candidates can check their allotment status online and download their allotment letters after the results are declared. The board will also publish Round 2 cutoff ranks, while shortlisted candidates must complete admission formalities within…
PC: Study: A programmable fungal platform for engineered living textiles Researchers in China have created a textile made from living fungal mycelium that can heal its own cuts, grow new surface layers on command, and biodegrade completely within weeks. The material, built from Cordyceps militaris fungus, keeps its cells alive throughout the manufacturing process, unlike…
Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy. Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests. Britain went to war for the right to keep selling opium into China, after the Qing…
Accused Spiked Her Coffee, Recorded Nude Videos To Blackmail HerSurat: Singanpor police have booked three persons on charges of rape and criminal intimidation after a young woman alleged that one of the accused drugged her with spiked coffee, recorded a nude video while she was unconscious, and later used it to repeatedly sexually assault and…
On 21 August 2017, the afternoon light at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, began to fade. For the people gathered there, the approaching darkness was an astronomical spectacle. For the animals living outside in the zoo’s enclosures, it was something rather different: daylight was suddenly behaving as if evening had arrived. Researchers had prepared…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Wednesday approved the Master Plan of Delhi (MPD) 2047 in the presence of its chairman, Lieutenant Governor T S Sandhu, paving the way for a major overhaul of the city’s urban development framework in line with the broader vision of Viksit Bharat.The plan, which will be forwarded to the…
