Ahmedabad: If a murder convict jumps parole, you would expect him to disappear into hiding. But Hemant Nagindas Modi allegedly spent the last decade quite brazenly in front of the camera. For nearly 12 years, the 53-year-old — known in entertainment circles as Spandan Modi and sometimes Twinkle Dave — acted alongside some of Bollywood’s…
Stray dogs roam a city street, highlighting the ongoing issue of urban animal welfare and the need for rescue and adoption efforts. Hyderabad: A seven-year-old boy was critically injured after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Hastinapuram, Meerpet, on Monday night.Police said that the boy, a native of Sircilla, had come to…
Surat: Vesu police booked eight persons for attempted murder after they allegedly attacked four residents with knives and other sharp-edged weapons at SMC Awas in Vesu.According to police, the accused had gone to the housing complex looking for a man named Sultan. When residents confronted them over carrying weapons, the group allegedly launched an attack,…
Ludhiana: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which also runs the Punjab govt, has secured a majority across six municipal councils in this district, consolidating its local govt footprint despite significant upsets in key constituency strongholds.The elections held on Tuesday for 112 wards across the Khanna, Jagraon, Samrala, Raikot, Doraha, and Payal councils saw the state’s…
The truck driver was confused as the sound of the plane engine grew louder moments before the plane hit the truck near Newark airport. The chilling dashcam video revealed the exact moments when a United Airlines flight landing at Newark Liberty International Airport hit a streetlight and a tractor-trailer on the nearby highway in a…
New Delhi: Delhi Traffic Police registered 1,170 FIRs, impounded 1,179 vehicles and issued 12,568 challans during a two-day special enforcement drive against wrong-side driving conducted across the capital on May 22 and 23.The crackdown was carried out on major roads, intersections, highways, vulnerable stretches and accident-prone locations across the city.“Wrong-side driving has emerged as a…
Rupee began its last trading session of the week in red, falling 45 paise against the US dollar to 94.67 in early trade as rising crude oil prices and fresh tensions around the Strait of Hormuz dragged down market sentiment. Opening at 94.58 in the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic currency slipped further as…
Every drop of blood in your body is doing something ancient. It is carrying oxygen, fighting infections, clotting wounds, and patrolling for threats, a set of tasks so fundamental to animal life that nearly every creature with a backbone does some version of the same thing. But where did blood cells come from in the…
MUMBAI: Bonds rallied after govt and RBI announced measures to encourage foreign investment in govt securities on Friday. The yields on benchmark 10-year govt securities (G-Secs) softened to 6.94% in early trades, from 6.99% on Thursday, after the govt said foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) would be exempted from long-term capital gains and withholding taxes on…
New Delhi: Govt has indicated to exporters that Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) may run container ships to West Asia to help them tide over the problem of high freight costs.Responding to complaints over high input and freight costs, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal is said to have conveyed SCI’s plan during a meeting…
