Fire at Paharganj home claims 60-year-old man’s life in Delhi (Image used for representational purpose only) NEW DELHI: A 60-year-old handicapped man died after a fire broke out in his house in central Delhi’s Paharganj area on Monday afternoon.According to Delhi Fire Services, a call about the blaze was received at around 2.40pm from a…
Ladakh gets five new districts, LG Saxena approves notification SRINAGAR: Ladakh’s number of districts rose from two to seven after five more were added — Nubra, Sham, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass — in a notification issued Monday by lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, days before Union home minister Amit Shah is due to visit.Calling it…
File Pic: Shafali Verma (Getty Images) It was in England in 2017, the occasion was an ODI World Cup semi-final and the opponents were Meg Lanning’s Australia. Harmanpreet Kaur‘s unbeaten 171 changed the course of women’s cricket and remains one of the most important innings in Indian cricket history.India are in England again, this time…
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday launched a sharp attack on seven Rajya Sabha MPs who have quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), using a culinary analogy to downplay their individual political weight. CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday launched a sharp attack on seven Rajya Sabha MPs who have quit the…
Projects need to follow voters, to the added areas in Chennai CHENNAI: Electoral data after SIR underscores that the added areas are growing fast while the core city stays stagnant, underscoring the need for a policy shift in infrastructure investment and timely completion of civic projects. Even after nearly 30% deletions, the electorate in Sholinganallur,…
Thane: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Thane, arrested two individuals on Monday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe to facilitate a student’s admission into a school in Rabodi.The accused, identified as Fatima Tahir Ansari, 35, a resident of Rabodi, and Chaitanya Pradip Pradhan, a resident of Kharkar Ali, were apprehended while accepting ₹77,300 in bribe…
CHENNAI: With just three days to go for polling in Tamil Nadu, election authorities have seized over Rs 500 crore in cash, gold, drugs, liquor and other inducements as part of an intensified crackdown on poll-related malpractices, Election Commission’s special observer for Tamil Nadu Pratap Singh said on Monday.“The overall interceptions so far have crossed…
Midori Francis carved a niche for herself playing queer roles in projects including ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’, but her latest role in the supernatural body horror film ‘Saccharine’ took things to an entirely different level. The 32-year-old actress played Hana, a medical student haunted by internalised fatphobia, family trauma, a…
Darjeeling: Gorkhaland Territorial Administration chief executive Anit Thapa met Centre-appointed interlocutor Pankaj Kumar Singh on Wednesday. The meeting assumed significance because Thapa’s party — Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM) — has been an ally of Trinamool and Thapa had previously refused to meet the interlocutor.Singh, whom Centre appointed interlocutor in Oct last year, had visited…
The day asks for sweat, not shortcuts. Mars is your ruler. He is pushing you towards the third house of efforts and the Moon is rousing which means that nothing comes easily, but nothing is wasted either. If you’re facing a deadline on your plate at work, school or even in an issue with your…
