Varanasi: A total of 134 Agniveers took the oath to serve the nation during a ceremonial Passing Out Parade held at 39 Gorkha Training Centre on Saturday. The parade was reviewed by Zubin A Minwalla, DCIDS (Operations), Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff and Colonel of the 9 Gorkha Rifles.The ceremony marked the successful completion of 24…
New Delhi: Two vehicles were allegedly set on fire by two men in West Delhi’s Tagore Garden area last week. CCTV footage of the alleged incident of arson surfaced on social media on Sunday.According to the police, a PCR call about the burning of two vehicles was received on May 6 at the Rajouri Garden…
BJP stages protest in Udupi on Tuesday TIMES NEWS NETWORKUdupi: Former minister and MLA V Sunil Kumar has alleged that anti-national and anti-Hindu forces are provoking young people in the name of a movement and attempting to create anarchy in the country. He claimed that young people in villages were being mobilised under the ‘Cockroach’…
Md. Ali Park —– Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: Youth Association, the organisers of the famous Mohammad Ali Park Durga Puja, have said that they have neither changed the name of the festival nor support any move to rename the historic central Kolkata park, distancing themselves from the hoardings describing the puja as “Shree Mahabali…
Punjab pacer Gurnoor Brar has received maiden India call-up. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: Growing up, Gurnoor Brar was one of the many Indian kids who used to mimic the bowling actions of Dale Steyn, Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar, even while crossing the road.Although Brar picked up the red cherry at the age of 16,…
R Ashwin and Jos Buttler (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: It has been seven years since the controversial ‘Mankading’ run-out incident involving Ravichandran Ashwin and Jos Buttler during an IPL 2019 match between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Ashwin, then playing for Punjab, ran Buttler out at the non-striker’s end, sparking heated exchanges between the…
On June 4, around 2:50 a.m., the armed men broke into the colonel’s residence Gurgaon: Four more accused, including a Bangladeshi national, were arrested on Sunday in connection with the robbery at the house of a retired colonel in Sector 23.The police identified the accused as Kaleem, alias Aslam, residing at Dargah Nizamuddin Auliya; Javed,…
A 23-year-old man from Louisiana has become one of the first people in the United States to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease using Casgevy, the world’s first approved CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy. Daniel Cressy, from Metairie near New Orleans, had lived with the inherited blood disorder since childhood, enduring severe pain crises and repeated…
Guwahati: PM Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens to conserve foreign exchange by cutting imported fuel use through public transport and carpooling has found support in Guwahati, but residents say the city’s buses largely vanish after 7pm, making the call hard to follow.Guwahati, the biggest city in the northeast, has seen major govt push on infrastructure…
Lucknow: Lucknow University (LU) is set to introduce an alumni-funded support system aimed at assisting economically weaker students who struggle to meet rising educational expenses.The initiative seeks to create an alumni network through which former students can directly contribute towards tuition fees of meritorious yet financially disadvantaged learners.The proposed model is designed to bridge the…
