THE GOOD FIGHT: At Aguada Fort Jail (top), hundreds of freedom fighters braved Salazarian onslaughts Goa Revolution Day, observed annually on June 18, commemorates the historic civil disobedience movement launched in 1946 by Ram Manohar Lohia and Juliao Menezes. Their defiant public gathering at Margao 80 years ago ignited a mass movement against Portuguese colonial…
Ahmedabad: While authorities have temporarily banned Telegram ahead of NEET over concerns regarding paper leaks, fraudsters appear to have moved to alternative digital platforms to continue targeting students.Investigators and whistleblowers tracking NEET-related online activity have found that several groups that were previously active on Telegram have begun redirecting users to WhatsApp channels, where claims of…
Chennai: Commuters taking the South Usman Road via CIT Nagar to reach Nandanam pass through a 10-minute ordeal every day during peak hours at one specific intersection.Buses, autorickshaws and motorists come from all sides, leaving the intersection at South West Boag road under the T Nagar steel flyover chaotic and dangerous spot for motorists and…
The decline was led majorly by IT sector stocks crashing. (AI image) Stock market today: Indian equity benchmarks, Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, snapped their five day winning streak to tank in trade on Friday. The decline was led majorly by IT sector stocks crashing. Weak global sentiment, aggressive selling in technology stocks and other market…
Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a plea seeking to stop the transfer of 152 vacant in-service super-speciality medical seats in Tamil Nadu to the All India Quota (AIQ) for the 2025-26 academic year.A bench of justices B V Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre, the Tamil Nadu government and other…
Ahmedabad: A long-running financial dispute culminated in the murder of a 32-year-old man in broad daylight on Ahmedabad’s busy Relief Road on Sunday, leaving commuters shaken.Police identified the victim as Jayshankar Rajput, a resident of Hatkeshwar, and the accused as Shakib Salim Sheikh of Vatva. Investigators said the two had been at odds over a…
Pune police are meticulously examining electronic devices seized from a self-styled guru’s bungalow. PUNE: Police will closely study all electronic devices, including laptops, tablets and pen drives, recovered from the self-styled guru’s bungalow-cum-ashram at Ubalenagar in Wagholi and send them for forensic examination to gather more evidence.Commissioner of police (CP), Pune, Amitesh Kumar said, “As…
On a low stretch of countryside not far from Stonehenge, where the road from Bulford cuts across open grassland, archaeologists have been piecing together something that never quite forms a full picture. Scattered postholes, fragments of pottery, bits of bone and charcoal that seem ordinary until they are placed in relation to each other. The…
Mukesh Khanna trolled as ‘shameless’ after starring in ad with Samay Rain after ‘paraded on donkey’ comment over ‘India’s Got Latent’ Mukesh Khanna, best known for playing the iconic superhero ‘Shaktimaan’, is facing sharp criticism on social media after appearing in a commercial alongside comedian Samay Raina, the very person he had publicly and harshly…
Tangedco employee nabbed for graft Chennai: Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) sleuths arrested an assistant attached to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (Tangedco) headquarters after he was caught accepting a bribe of ₹50,000 from a suspended employee for processing his reinstatement order.According to DVAC officials, Balasubramanian, an assistant engineer who worked in the Besant…
