File Pic – Argentina’s Lionel Messi kisses the trophy after winning the World Cup in 2022. (AP/PTI Photo) It was morning in Miami and late evening in India as Lionel Messi’s announcement through an Instagram post flooded social media. Having seen him light up our lives for two decades, the world suddenly felt strangely empty,…
Some planetary movements change the mood before they change circumstances. Venus entering Libra is one of them.Shukra has been travelling through Virgo, a sign where its natural qualities do not find easy expression. Relationships can become overly analytical, pleasure may come with guilt, and even good things may not feel satisfying enough. This begins to…
New Delhi: To make sure that money paid for public utilities is used only for the dedicated purpose, the Master Plan for Delhi 2047 has provided a ring-fenced mechanism to manage development charges through an escrow account in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects.This means that when a developer pays money to build roads, for example,…
The two got separated during the rush at the station Mumbai: A Wadala resident died after he allegedly leapt off a moving train onto a platform to catch up with a friend he had got separated from at Nagpur station on Monday. Nagpur GRP said Aslam Shaikh, a BJP activist, and his friend took a…
Bengaluru: Bowing to mounting pressure from citizen groups, resident welfare associations, walkers and opposition parties, chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday said the controversial Parks bill will be reintroduced during the Winter session of the legislature, likely in Nov-Dec, giving the opposition ample opportunity to debate it.The Karnataka Government Parks (Preservation) (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which allows…
CHENNAI: Weeks after returning from World U-20 Championships, Tamil Nadu’s Neil Samraj broke the youth national record twice in boys 100m at National Youth Athletics Championships in Ludhiana on Tuesday. The 17-year-old clocked 10.46 seconds in final to bag gold and solidified his position to qualify for the Youth Olympics in Dakar later this year.“I…
Hyderabad: Nearly 69% of Telangana’s registered GST taxpayers are based in Hyderabad, but the city accounted for 91.1% of the state’s GST collections in Aug. Hyderabad’s GST collections grew 20.53% year on year to ₹3,956 crore, while GST collections per registered taxpayer worked out to about ₹98,900, against ₹74,845 for Telangana as a whole.According to…
On Tuesday, eight relatives from four families travelled from Kolkata to Kathmandu to search for 32 tourists from Bengal who went missing last Wednesday while travelling with Chalo Jaai Travel Club Kolkata: A week after flash floods devastated parts of Nepal, families in Bengal whose relatives remain missing are caught between fading hope and the…
Four of the 16 stalled Supertech projects — Ecociti, Romano, Capetown and North Eye (in pic)—are in Noida Noida: National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has taken note of the slow progress in the construction of 16 stalled Supertech Limited projects and sought a status report from National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), the project management…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: Researchers from the remote sensing laboratory at Goa University’s school of earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences (SEOAS), led by professor Harilal Menon, have developed a mobile application to study how visible light decreases with depth and how underwater visibility changes in coastal and estuarine waters.The application, VEDA (visible-light extinction with depth analysis), was developed…
