Betty D’Silva, among Goa’s most accomplished volleyball players, will lead the Goa Masters Women Volleyball Association Panaji: May has seen an unusual frenzy in Goan volleyball, particularly among old-timers.Two exhibition games in Santa Cruz and Shirgal in Pernem taluka got the yesteryear stars back on the court, exercising, wrapping their knees in thick pads, and…
The protest of Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) on Thursday. Founder of CJP Abhijit Dipke (in blue) and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk participated in the protest Pune: On a humid Thursday afternoon in Pune, under the heavy presence of over 600 policemen and several surveillance and other vehicles, 87-year-old Meenakshi…
Kolkata: A woman, in her early 30s, has alleged that she was repeatedly gang-raped after being sedated with sleeping pills at a de-addiction centre in the Daripukur area under Dattapukur PS in Barasat, North 24-Parganas. The allegations have led to the arrest of the owner of the rehabilitation centre on Tuesday, while police are searching…
Engalnd captain Ben Stokes (Getty Images) England Test captain Ben Stokes is set to return to competitive action after being included in Durham’s 15-man squad for their upcoming County Championship clash against Northamptonshire at Chester-le-Street, which begins on Friday.The all-rounder has not featured since being left out of England’s ongoing second Test against New Zealand…
Hyderabad: Telangana recorded the highest number of suicides due to insecticide consumption in India in 2024, with 4,252 deaths, according to the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The figure accounts for nearly 16% of the country’s total 26,921 insecticide-related suicides.Of the 4,252 deaths reported in Telangana, 3,341 victims were men,…
COLVA: A video showing an 83-year-old man allegedly being assaulted inside a house surfaced on social media, following which Goa police registered a case against his son and daughter-in-law. The clip allegedly shows the elderly man being slapped, hit with slippers and threatened by the accused.Colva police arrested Isidoreo Souza of Betalbatim on Friday evening…
KOLKATA: West Bengal has emerged as a critical industrial hotspot for black carbon emissions, discharging a staggering 95,901 tonnes annually into the atmosphere. A pioneering study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) reveals that the state is the second-largest emitter in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), a region that collectively generates roughly 4.5 lakh…
At the June meet-and-greet organised by the GLFC, half a dozen sea lampreys posed for the cameras at the Capitol. One of them even sucked on the palm of Representative Bill Huizenga, as per a CNN report. Among the few things the entire Congress agrees on, this is one: the invasive sea lampreys must go.For…
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor with Tiffany Trump and his son-in-law Michael Boulosm during their visit to Sonar Fort NEW DELHI: Tiffany Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, visited the historic Sonar Fort in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer on Sunday evening during her trip to the desert city with her husband, Michael Boulos, officials said.The…
Udaipur: The bodies of an elderly couple who had gone missing from their home in Punawali village were found inside an iron trunk kept in a room of their house Friday morning, around 48 hours after they went missing.Laherilal Paliwal and his wife Radha Devi lived alone. Police said their bodies were found wrapped in…
