Smooth-coated otters at Sarthana Nature Park in Surat Surat: At least 10 zoos across India house smooth-coated otters. Interestingly, almost all of them trace their lineage back to male otter Lalu from the city’s Sarthana Nature Park, giving the Surat facility a reason to celebrate Father’s Day.Lalu was brought to the zoo after being rescued…
The fully underground project will be financed by the South Western Railway (SWR) at an estimated cost of Rs 5.5 Crore. Bengaluru: Thousands of residents of Srirampura and Seshadripuram will soon have easier access to Sampige Road Metro station, with the railways Monday announcing the construction of a pedestrian subway between Swatantra Palya and the…
JALANDHAR: An innocentlooking CCTV camera atop a pole in Kapurthala’s Model Town turned out to be the eyes and ears of an ISI-controlled spy module that kept a watch on sensitive military locations.This was revealed when Punjab counter-intelligence (CI) busted two ISI-controlled modules and arrested three suspects for spying on military establishments via solarpowered CCTV…
TOKYO: A powerful earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan during rush hour on Thursday morning, but the country’s meteorological agency said there was no danger of a tsunami and no serious injuries were reported. The temblor shook dozens of towns across northeastern Japan and was even mildly felt in the capital, Tokyo. It…
Bobby Kotick, the former head of Activision Blizzard, is reportedly considering buying TikTok, as the app could be banned in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kotick has talked to ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, about buying the app, which could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.This comes as US lawmakers…
The violations include farmhouses, banquet halls, commercial establishments Gurgaon: Sultanpur National Park has a little less space to breathe this year compared to 12 months ago. Next year, some concrete may eviscerate a little more of its protected area, some more the following year, and yet more the year after, till the park boundary and…
For Bobby Deol, the years when work slowed down weren’t just professionally testing—they were emotionally complex. The actor recently revealed that what weighed on him the most was not the lack of opportunities, but the quiet pressure of how his father, Dharmendra, might have seen him during that phase. In the months following his father’s…
PCMC commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi chaired the meeting on Wednesday with officials from MNGL and the state co-operatives department with representatives of various housing societies and residents’ federations Pune: Officials of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) and the state co-operatives department on Wednesday held a meeting with representatives of housing societies…
India’s permanent representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish (File photo) NEW DELHI: India has strongly rebuked Pakistan at the United Nations over what it described as Islamabad’s attempt to label militant groups operating within its territory as “Fitna al Hindustan” as part of a state-sponsored propaganda campaign.The Indian response came after Pakistan sought to frame…
