New Delhi: Three schoolchildren fell into an overflowing drain amid severe waterlogging in north Delhi’s Jagatpur on Thursday. They were immediately rescued by locals.CCTV footage of the incident, which shows the children in school uniform, later surfaced on social media.The 41-second clip, dated Aug 6 and timestamped around 12.47 pm, shows a road completely submerged…
Minister R Vinoth presents the agriculture budget in assembly on Thursday CHENNAI: The TVK govt’s first agricultural budget on Thursday set the goal of increasing Tamil Nadu’s annual foodgrain production from the present 121 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) to 131 LMT over the next five years. To achieve this, the govt plans to bring 52,600…
Gujarat Pollution Control Board had directed that environmental clearance be obtained before seeking development permissions. Ahmedabad: Environmental clearance will be sought by AMC to develop 40 lakh square metres of land located within a 500-metre radius of Odhav and Vinzol landfill sites; the state govt had rejected the plan earlier.Gujarat Pollution Control Board had directed…
Kolkata: Gold, silver and diamond ornaments worth over Rs 1.5 crore, allegedly smuggled into Kolkata, were seized by Airport police, who arrested a Rajasthan man while he was allegedly attempting to take the consignment out of the airport premises.Police said they recovered around 1.7 kg of gold and silver jewellery, valued at about Rs 1.2…
Pune: A 25-year-old woman was killed after a minibus hit her scooter from behind at Yamunanagar in Nigdi on Tuesday afternoon. She was on her way to work when the accident occurred.Nigdi police identified the deceased as Shraddha Rajaram Mane, a resident of Nigdi and a native of Karad taluka in Satara district. She had…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Thursday ordered the release of three life convicts — Rohan Dhungat, Shankar Tiwari and Ryan Pinto — in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of Mandar Surlakar, after the Sentence Review Board recommended their premature release on completion of 14 years of actual imprisonment.The court quashed state govt’s order rejecting…
The narcotic was being transported in a truck as rice crackers Surat: The local crime branch (LCB) of Surat Rural police on Thursday seized 2.5 tonned of poppy husk — worth an estimated Rs 3.75 crore — from a truck on National Expressway 4, exposing an interstate supply network that allegedly routed the contraband through…
India squad for AHF Women’s Junior Asia Cup 2026 Midfielder Khaidem Shileima Chanu will captain the 18-member India junior women’s hockey team at the Junior Asia Cup, which will be held in Moqi, China, from August 30 to September 13.The squad recently returned from an exposure tour of the United Kingdom as part of its…
After Jean Grey and Emma Frost, it seems that Marvel Studios may have found its next Scott Summers.Kit Connor, best known for his breakout role in Netflix’s ‘Heartstopper’, is reportedly in talks to play Cyclops in Marvel Studios’ upcoming X-Men reboot. Kit Connor in talks to join ‘X-Men’ If finalised, it would land the star…
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian whose work explored how power, knowledge and social institutions shape human behaviour, identity and society. In 1971, during a televised debate hosted by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders, French philosopher Michel Foucault sat across from linguist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky argued that human beings have a natural, universal human…
