Ahmedabad: A regulatory red flag raised in United States has helped expose a suspected fake plasma racket operating across Gujarat and Maharashtra, bringing into focus a supply chain that feeds some of the world’s most critical medicines. Four people were arrested on Monday for allegedly using saline water and chemical colouring agents to manufacture counterfeit…
Around 50 divers are searching for the body in canals and drains along Baghpat, Meerut and Hapur Ghaziabad: Two more key accused in the murder of a dairy farm owner in Loni two weeks ago were arrested on Friday, even as the deceased’s body remained untraced. More than 20 teams, including police, SDRF and flood…
NEW DELHI: Electricity consumption in May rose nearly 11% year-on-year, driven by hot weather conditions prevailing across the country for most of the month, leading to increased use of air-conditioners in domestic and commercial sectors.Grid India data showed that 165 billion units (BU) of electricity were consumed in May this year, compared with 148.7 BU…
NEW DELHI: A scooter parked near the BSF Chowk in Punjab’s Jalandhar district caught fire on Tuesday evening, triggering panic in the area, though no one was injured, police said.The incident occurred around 8 pm on the busy road outside the Punjab Frontier headquarters of the Border Security Force (BSF), which connects the main city…
Chandigarh: The Punjab state taxation department has arrested the alleged mastermind of a Rs 55-crore fake billing racket that enabled fraudulent input tax credit (ITC) claims worth Rs 8.35 crore, finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Thursday.Cheema identified the accused as Bhupinder Sharma, proprietor of Jalandhar-based Ramsons Corporation, who was arrested under Section 69…
Bongaon: What looks like a CAA help centre at the Thakurbari premises from outside has been temporarily converted into a BJP strongroom, with young BJP workers from Varanasi calling Gaighata voters, urging them to vote for BJP candidate Subrata Thakur. For more than nine hours a day, these youths keep calling Matuas, trying to fight…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s major Dravidian parties DMK and AIADMK will not participate in the all-party-MPs meeting convened by Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Saturday to discuss Union govt’s proposed delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies, sources in the two parties told TOI.DMK MPs staying away from the meeting indicates the party is moving…
Traffic movement slows down in Mahabaleshwar due to heavy rain PUNE: Extremely heavy rain continued to batter parts of Maharashtra with several locations in the Sahyadri Ghats logging 500-600mm in the 24 hours ending Tuesday 8. 30am. Mahabaleshwar in Satara district was lashed by cloudburst-like rain, recording 403mm in 24 hours and a staggering 916mm…
The family spent Rs 11 lakh on hospital bills Mumbai: An 11-year-old boy fell from a second-floor building in Ghatkopar on May 6. The impact shattered his skull and drove bone fragments into his right eyeball and brain. Yet, even a week after his hospital discharge, the boy shows no signs of paralysis, vision impairment…
Pencil marks, composed of graphite flakes, adhere to paper fibers through weak van der Waals interactions. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons A new sheet of paper is a blank canvas, but a microscope shows that it’s a wild, tangled jungle of cellulose fibres. “Every time you drag a pencil across that grid, you’re causing a little…
