Ahmedabad: A 16-year-old boy suffered grievous injuries after being hit by an AMTS bus while attempting to cross a road near Nehrunagar on June 19. An FIR in the case was registered with M Division Traffic Police after the victim’s father lodged a complaint.According to police, the injured boy had gone to deliver a tiffin…
Photo: Dasha takisho/ Instagram Optical illusions do more than trick the eye: they can also reveal surprising habits of thought. This personality test, shared by Dasha Takisho, asks you to look at a single image and notice what appears first: a skull, a fence, a boat, or a bound person. Each first impression links to…
Sarvesh Kushare. (File photo) Sarvesh Kushare set a new men’s high jump national record after clearing 2.31m at the 65th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Friday. The Maharashtra athlete also became the first Indian high jumper to officially clear the 2.30m mark.The 31-year-old went past the previous national…
ED probes money laundering angle in Tamil Nadu teacher recruitment scam (File Photo). CHENNAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has launched a massive search operation across the State in connection with the alleged scam in recruitment of teachers to polytechnic colleges by the teachers recruitment board in 2017.Searches are underway in about 18 premises at Chennai, Trichy,…
Pune: A private company employee from Ravet has lodged a complaint with the Ravet police, alleging that cyber fraudsters duped him of Rs 5.14 lakh through a fake traffic challan message sent to his mobile phone on May 5 this year.An officer from the Ravet police said the complainant received a text message titled “mParivahan”,…
England captain Joe Root (Getty Images) Joe Root’s remarkable achievements with the bat continued at The Oval, but England’s crushing defeat to New Zealand also saw the former captain add another unwanted entry to his record book.Having recently crossed 14,000 Test runs and become the first batter to score 2,000 Test runs against New Zealand,…
2nd airport for Kol region | page 1The state budget unveiled plans for a 2nd airport for the Kolkata region and new airports at Purulia, Balurghat and Malda. It also announced plans for the expansion of the airport in Cooch Behar.Govt hunts for 1k acres for airport near Kalyani | page 3Kolkata: Signalling a major…
Maruti Suzuki India has started customer deliveries of the Wagon R Bio-Flex, India’s first flex-fuel passenger vehicle. The first batch of Wagon R Bio-Flex deliveries was handed over to the Indian Sugar and Bio-energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) in New Delhi. The model can run on ethanol-petrol blends and arrives as the government pushes the adoption…
Panaji: Goa’s monsoon rainfall deficit has narrowed to 47% following a surge in rainfall across the state over the past 24 hours, according to the India Meteorological Department data.The state recorded an average of 56mm rainfall on June 25, against the normal of 31.6mm, representing a 77.4% excess for the day.Despite the recent spell, Goa…
Sir William Osler (Image: Wikipedia) History is full of people who thought of something brilliant first and got none of the credit for it. Someone else came along later, explained the idea more clearly, pushed it harder, and won the fame. It feels unfair, and in a way it is. But it is also how…
