Surat: A 14-year-old minor girl was allegedly raped by her colleague, who is also a minor, in Sachin area of Surat, police said. The victim was allegedly abducted from Madhya Pradesh a couple of months ago and a police complaint was registered. After coming to Surat, she had started living with a couple and started…
The family salon in Raj Arcade Surat: City police’s anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU) raided a salon in upmarket Pal area and busted a prostitution racket on Sunday. The raid led to the arrest of the salon manager and three customers, while four women were rescued. Police said an agent used to send customers to the…
Vadodara/Ahmedabad: After making global headlines for slowing ships in the Persian Gulf during the Strait of Hormuz crisis, barnacles—tiny shell-covered marine creatures that cling to rocks and ship hulls—are now exposing alarming levels of microplastic pollution along Gujarat’s coastline.A study by researchers from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (HNGU) and the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) has…
Arika Kundu, 13, uses peanut shells to help remove pesticide residues from produce. A 13-year-old Indian-American student from Minnesota has invented a method to reduce pesticide residues on fresh fruits and vegetables by using peanut shells, something that is usually thrown away.Arika Kundu, a seventh-grade student at Minnetonka Middle School East in Shorewood, Minnesota, developed…
Spiritual leader and meditation master Gauranga Das recently shared some very insightful thoughts on LinkedIn. In his post, he discussed Draupadi, one of the central Mahabharata characters, and her ability to teach modern-day corporate leaders important lessons about self-respect, strength, and clarity. What we can learn from Draupadi Describing her strength, he wrote, “A woman…
The week opens on a bright, almost sunlit note for you. Early days bring fulfilment, and you may feel that people are finally seeing what you’ve been trying to do for some time. At home and outside, your words carry warmth. You can win people over simply by speaking plainly and from the heart. There…
The commission held that the denial of carriage followed Jain’s failure to comply with baggage and check-in requirements Mumbai: A district consumer commission has held that an airline’s refusal to allow boarding after a passenger failed to pay excess baggage charges and missed the check-in deadline does not amount to deficiency in service when the…
MIT Grows living circuits from bacteria. (Credit: MIT News) For most of computing history, information has moved through wires, as electrons pushed along a circuit by voltage. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now built a version of that same logic using something far older than any transistor: living bacteria.The team, led…
The Bombay high court upheld Tarun Tejpal’s conviction in a 2013 sexual assault case PANAJI: The Bombay high court has granted former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal four weeks to surrender, after considering his request for additional time following his conviction in the 2013 sexual assault case.The court had earlier granted him two weeks to surrender…
