Lucknow: Sudhar Utsavs will be held in all gram sabhas on Oct 2 to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.The festival will allow each panchayat to decide the course of its village’s development while deliberating on issues related to 11 departments, like employment, water conservation, sanitation and women empowerment.Among specific issues that the panchayats…
SC said cops could issue lakhs of e-challans, but what was being done to recover the fines was the question at hand. NEW DELHI: Many vehicle owners often ignore traffic fines for years, allowing unpaid challans to pile up and eventually land in courts. Supreme Court has now directed states and UTs to impound their…
Twitch streamer Reginald “Reggie,” also known as “Lil Rodney Son,” says he is done streaming on Twitch after a fallout involving Kai Cenat. During an Instagram livestream on September 30, Reggie claimed Kai “runs Twitch” and accused him of “blackballing” people, saying he would move his content to YouTube. He later explained the decision in…
Stock market holiday today Investors will have a break from domestic equity trading on Friday as the stock market remains closed for Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. October 2, 2026, is listed as a full trading holiday in the 2026 market calendar, with both the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) shut for regular…
Johnny Depp stuns in new makeover for ‘A Christmas Carol’ retelling, ‘Ebenezer’. The first trailer for the film has officially been released online. (YouTube) The trailer for Johnny Depp’s much-awaited film, ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol,’ has finally been released online. The film was earlier announced at Cinemacon in April this year. It gained a lot…
India’s Kumkum Anil Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara. (Reuters Photo) NEW DELHI: Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara signed off with a silver medal in the mixed team recurve event after China’s Jingyi Zhu and Mengqi Li prevailed 5-3 in a closely fought gold-medal match at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Friday.The Indian pair had to…
In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler, scientists at Bell Labs, patented a compact, inexpensive yet highly sensitive microphone: the electret microphone. Their invention, covered by U.S. Patent No. 3,118,022, soon became widely used because of its high performance, accuracy and reliability, as well as its low cost, small size and light weight. According to…
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast rainfall across several parts of India on Saturday, with Kerala, Karnataka, parts of northeast India, Odisha, West Bengal, Maharashtra and southern states likely to experience showers. Thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds are also expected in several regions.Delhi is expected to remain without any significant weather warning…
Hyderabad: Medicine suppliers allegedly transferred kickbacks to the bank accounts of Central Govt Health Scheme (CGHS) officials in exchange for supply orders and clearance of bills at the scheme’s Begumpet office, according to a CBI FIR covering transactions between 2022 and 2025.CBI’s anti-corruption branch, Hyderabad, registered the FIR on Sept 28 following a preliminary enquiry….
Kolkata: Nine months after Lionel Messi’s fleeting appearance at the Salt Lake stadium ended in a crowd-control nightmare, police are leaving little to chance as the venue prepares for its first international football event since the fiasco — this time with three layers of frisking, nearly 2,000 police personnel, block-wise security strengthened several-fold and a…
