Shiva Kumar PinnaJS Bhupalpally: A worker of Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL) sustained injuries in a blasting incident at the Kakatiya Khani (KTK)-5 underground coal mine in Bhupalpally on Monday. The injured worker was identified as Sriramula Pradeep, a short firer (explosives handler) employed at the mine.The incident reportedly occurred at the 13th level of the…
Kolkata: The ongoing poll season, described as Vote Puja, has forced major Durga Pujas in the city to defer their khuti pujas. The ritual is usually held on Poila Baisakh, as well as on Rath Yatra. But this time, Tala Prattoy is the only big-budget puja organiser that performed khuti puja on Wednesday. A few…
Ludhiana: A 30-year-old businessman, who also plays cricket in local tournaments, was assaulted with a sharp edged weapon after he refused to play for the other team. The victim reportedly suffered three fractures and is undergoing treatment at a private hospital.Division No. 1 police, on the complaint of Gurwinder Singh of Kaneja village in Meharban,…
Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) There is a quiet, almost funny cruelty to this saying. Picture someone striding ahead, chin up, certain they are leading the way. Then they glance over their shoulder and find nobody there. Not a single person followed. In that instant, the grand march turns into…
Main gate of Haridev Joshi University damaged Jaipur: The main gate of Haridev Joshi University’s new campus at Dehmi Kala was damaged during a dust storm and rain Saturday, raising concerns over construction quality and campus safety.The campus, operational since July last year and built at a cost of about Rs 110 crore, includes digital…
On the outskirts west of Jerusalem, a burial chamber was disturbed long before scientists reached it, its contents partly scattered and partly preserved by chance. What remained did not look remarkable at first glance: broken pottery, mixed human remains, and soil already altered by construction and looting. Yet within that disorder lay material that would…
Many businesses are passing on the rise in packaging prices to final product costs that the customer shells out for Pune: The sharp spike in raw material costs for plastic packaging has affected kirana stores, restaurants, bakers and several consumer-facing business owners.“Prices for the plastic that we use to pack chikki are up by almost…
Sonipat: The BJP has expelled eight office-bearers in Sonipat for six years for contesting against the party’s candidates in the local municipal corporation (MC) elections.According to a communication issued by the party’s district office, the expelled functionaries defied the party line by entering the fray as independents and engaging in activities deemed detrimental to the…
Agartala: A district and sessions court in Tripura’s Dhalai district sentenced a drug trafficker to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh in a narcotics case busted two years ago.The convict, Supankar Debnath (35), a resident of Dhanpur in Sepahijala district, was found guilty under multiple provisions of the Narcotic…
Bengaluru: Two daily wage workers drowned in a lake near Bannerghatta after an old coracle they attempted to board reportedly tore apart Friday evening.The deceased were identified as Ambarish and Anand, natives of Yadgir, who had been working at an under-construction building in Begehalli.According to police, the two men entered Begehalli lake using an old…
