RCB players celebrate the wicket of Axar Patel. (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: It was a nightmare evening for Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium as the “curse of April 27” returned to haunt the IPL after 15 years. On the same date in 2011, Kochi Tuskers Kerala had slumped to 11 for 6…
Kalyan: RTO fined Congress functionary Surendra Adhav for using an illegal MLA sticker on his private car, keeping a red-and-blue beacon inside, and not having a pollution under control certificate. Adhav visited the KDMC office, where an RTO team learnt the car was not assigned to any MLA. This prompted assistant RTO inspector Prashant Suryavanshi…
Bengaluru: Traffic-choked Bengaluru is now taking a toll on the hearing health of its residents, with constant exposure to high noise levels increasingly linked to hearing-related ailments.Doctors say daily exposure to traffic noise — often ranging between 70 and 100 decibels (dB) — is contributing to a gradual but significant rise in hearing problems across…
Hyderabad: Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI’s) epigraphy division has decoded a 5th century CE Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi characters on a seal from Pakistan, identifying it as belonging to a Saiva temple dedicated to Svami Kotesvara at Devadaruvana, the forest of Himalayan cedar trees.ASI epigraphy wing head K Muniratnam Reddy said the inscription, incised on…
A child returns from school amid intense heat in Wave City Noida: Schools across Noida and Ghaziabad will now run from 7.30 am to 12.30 pm with immediate effect, after district magistrates in both cities revised timings amid a persistent heatwave that has pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius across the region.The directive covers institutions…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s 2024 Chandipura virus outbreak was the worst in 20 years. And now, for the first time, scientists have decoded the virus’s genetic blueprint from that episode. Researchers from the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), the state health department, and the National Institute of Virology, Pune, sequenced the full genome of the virus and…
Jaipur: Zinc Football Academy (ZFA) have successfully defended their Poornima Rajasthan League Senior Men’s A-Division title in emphatic fashion, defeating Jaipur City FC 4-1 in the ultimate title decider.On a day where everything was on the line, ZFA delivered a performance worthy of champions… high tempo, fearless, and in complete control from the first whistle.The…
NEW DELHI: A month after the Union cabinet approved the country’s climate action goals, called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), for 2031-35 period, India has formally submitted its pledges to the UN climate body underlining important conditions noting that the developing countries’ commitments “cannot be fulfilled” without adequate support in terms of “finance” and “technology transfer”.India…
TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump lashed out at a journalist who read out excerpts from a purported manifesto written by the suspect in Saturday night’s security scare at a media dinner while angrily asserting that he is not a rapist or a pedophile as the assailant’s screed suggested.In an interview with CBS…
“Indian equity markets are expected to open on a positive note, tracking firm cues from GIFT Nifty, which is currently trading around 24,140, up by nearly 185 points, indicating a gap-up start for domestic benchmark indices. Notably, GIFT Nifty is trading with gains despite escalating global tensions and stalled US–Iran negotiations, which continue to weigh…
