Ramesh Katara, minister of State for Agriculture, was speaking at a public event in Godhra town of Panchmahal district on Saturday, marking 12 years of the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre, when he made the remarks. AHMEDABAD: A Gujarat minister has sparked controversy after allegedly making disparaging remarks about teachers, with a teachers’ body…
Chandigarh: Three city residents were duped of over Rs 6.5 lakh in separate cyber fraud cases involving unauthorised credit card transactions, a fake bank call and a bogus utility payment link. Cybercrime police have registered three FIRs and launched investigations.In the first case, Col Rajiv Kumar Bindal (retd) of Sector 21 reported three fraudulent transactions…
China is developing a ground-based boost system that would accelerate a rocket along a track, using electricity. China is pushing an unconventional launch idea that could change the economics of reaching orbit: instead of igniting rockets at ground level and spending huge amounts of chemical propellant just to claw through the thickest part of the…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continued to rewrite IPL history on Friday with yet another breathtaking knock, smashing 96 off just 47 balls against Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2 of IPL 2026 in New Chandigarh.The 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals opener once again missed out on a deserved hundred, falling…
The CJP has maintained that the march was peaceful and that the police response was disproportionate. NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Thursday sharply challenged the Supreme Court’s observations on the use of pellet guns during student protests. CJP spokesperson Saurav Das accused the court of failing to rigorously examine whether the police…
Sandra Bullock’s message that “nothing is a failure” continues to resonate more than a decade after she shared it during a graduation speech in 2014. Sandra Bullock is having a quiet but meaningful year. After her longtime partner Bryan Randall passed away from complications of ALS in August 2023, the Oscar winner stepped away from…
Kolkata: Trinamool chairperson and former chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday exhorted all non-BJP parties in Bengal, including Left and ultra-Left, to join hands with TMC against the saffron party. Mamata said she was “personally willing” to talk to all interested parties to come up with a joint platform to defeat BJP, which was elected…
NEW DELHI: It often starts as a few seconds meant for the camera — a stunt, a pose or a dramatic shot. But across India, several such moments are ending not in viral fame, but in tragedy. In recent incidents, a series of deaths involving teenagers and young adults has drawn attention to the risks…
FWICE has stepped into the growing dispute around ‘Don 3’ after reports claimed Ranveer Singh walked out of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s film shortly before its shoot. Ashoke Pandit, Chief Advisor of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, called the matter serious and criticized the reported trend of actors leaving films close to…
BJP MLA Sanjay Kelkar, Metro officials and local industrialists during a site inspection of the proposed Integral Ring Metro alignment in Upvan on Wednesday Thane: The Rs 12,000-crore Thane Integral Ring Metro Rail Project has encountered fresh opposition, this time with industrialists from the Upvan Industrial Estate, who have objected to its proposed alignment, claiming…
