Panaji: National wind surfing champion Katya Coelho, 26, has become the second Goan sportsperson after Brahmanand Shankhwalkar to have a chapter dedicated to them in the new Class VIII Konkani textbook. The textbook has been created and is being implemented from this academic year under the National Education Policy (NEP).Director of the state council for…
People wait in a queue for taxis outside Dadar railway station on the second day of the BEST strike (R, Photo credit: PTI) MUMBAI: Bus services continued to be badly affected across Mumbai on Sunday as the strike by employees of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking entered its third day.However, the BEST…
A visual from the spot where a stampede occured during a public event of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Chief and Actor Vijay, in Karur on September 27 2025, where 41 people died Chennai: In his first official tour, chief minister C Joseph Vijay will be visiting Karur on July 10 where he will meet the…
Residents, architects, and urban planners have long demanded special development control regulations and a policy for gaothans Mumbai: Charles Correa once said, “People don’t come to cities for housing, they come for jobs.” People come to Bandra’s gaothans to escape the city — and for its houses. Here, they make themselves at home in postcard…
All you need to know about Homer’s classic poem that inspired ‘The Odyssey’ Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ is right around the corner from its release date. While fans have been awaiting the film for quite some time, many are not aware of the deep history the plot line is rooted in. Here is a look…
Kolkata: Police arrested Bhowanipore strongman Rakesh Sahu alias Vicky, from Durgapur while he was allegedly trying to flee to Jharkhand. Cops said Vicky had been active in the Bhowanipore area for several years, and has been accused of forcibly taking over two rooms in a local’s house and demanding Rs 30 lakh when asked to…
For years, efforts to track invasive Burmese pythons in Florida have centred on the Everglades, where the giant snakes have become one of the state’s most persistent wildlife problems. That picture is beginning to change. Wildlife officials now say a separate breeding population has become established farther north along Florida’s Gulf Coast, suggesting the species…
The action is part of the Maharashtra FDA’s intensified statewide drive against food adulteration and milk-related offences Ulhasnagar: In a major crackdown on the illegal sale and use of oxytocin injections in dairy animals, a joint team of the Central police station and the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seized 612 bottles of suspected…
The deceased woman, Akriti, had gotten married to Arastu Sikka in April this year. NEW DELHI: Police have registered a dowry death case and arrested the husband of the 28-year-old woman allegedly fell to her death from a residential building in south Delhi’s Palika Kunj.Cops say no evidence of foul play has surfaced so far…
An artist’s impression of the Tunguska airburst over central Siberia on 30 June 1908. An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists finally reached the remote Siberian wilderness where the blast had occurred, they found only a forest laid out like matchsticks. There was…
