Kolkata: A city private eye hospital has completed 20,000 transplants this year amid a drop in cornea transplants in Kolkata and south Bengal. While requirement for eye transplants has reduced due to better treatment and awareness, Bengal still needs around 4,000 corneas a year, around 80% of which are provided to recipients.Since its inception in…
Margao: Eight sheds of a gaushala run by Dhyan Foundation at Deusa in Quepem were demolished by unidentified persons in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering a dispute between the animal welfare organisation and the management committee of Shri Damodar Devasthan, Zambaulim, on whose land the shelter stood.Dhyan Foundation alleged that over 150 men trespassed…
Ahmedabad: A 31-year-old cafe owner from Ambawadi in Ahmedabad lost Rs 29,505 after booking a family holiday through a fake website of a resort in Anand.According to an FIR registered with Bodakdev police on Wednesday, the businessman planned a family trip in June. While searching online for accommodation, his wife found a website claiming to…
Jhajjar: Olympics medallist and Congress functionary Bajrang Punia on Wednesday condemned the alleged police crackdown on students protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, calling the reported lathicharge “reprehensible” and accusing the authorities of suppressing peaceful democratic dissent.In a video message posted on X and in a telephonic conversation with TOI, Punia said students, including women, were…
20 plus mule account holder booked Pune: The Pune Rural police have registered three cases against three people for allegedly providing their bank accounts to cybercrooks as mule accounts. The Pimpri Chinchwad police and Pune city police have also registered more than 20 cases against mule bank account holders over the last two days.Police investigations…
Guwahati: The Assam govt on Wednesday told the assembly that the floods that have inundated parts of upper Assam were caused by an extraordinary natural calamity triggered by massive inflows of water from the hills of neighbouring Nagaland, arguing that the scale of the disaster was beyond the control of any govt machinery.Replying to concerns…
AYODHYA: Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Wednesday deferred decisions on two key appointments — the selection of its chief executive officer and the induction of three new trustees — while also overhauling the temple’s religious oversight structure, giving key roles to seers from Ayodhya.At a meeting held at the Mani Ramdas Chhavni under the…
Jaipur: A 62-year-old man, who was reported missing by his family, was found dead in Tal Katora under the Nahargarh Road police station area Wednesday. Police said the exact cause of death will be determined after the post-mortem examination and further investigation.The deceased was identified as Manmohan Sharma, a resident of Gangauri Bazaar. According to…
Panshul Bansal from Haryana, who has secured AIR 2 in NEET UG 2026 NEW DELHI: Aryan Gupta and Panshul Bansal felt the same anger and sense of injustice as lakhs of NEET-UG aspirants when the May 3 examination was cancelled after a paper leak. They believe students were within their rights to protest. However, instead…
More than a century ago, engineers proposed an audacious idea for Egypt’s Western Desert, cutting a canal from the Mediterranean Sea into the Qattara Depression, a vast basin sitting well below sea level, and using the resulting flow of water to generate electricity indefinitely. The concept first surfaced around 1912 and was developed further by…
