Bengaluru: The Indian government, through a $600 million (about Rs 5,781 crore) climate fund jointly backed with Japan, is investing another Rs 200 crore in Ather Energy. The fund first backed the electric scooter maker in 2024, ahead of its stock market listing the following year.The India-Japan Fund will participate in a Rs 1,200 crore…
Mumbai: The DRI on Monday arrested Khalil Surve, kingpin of the gold smuggling racket who was operating from Saudi Arabia using Umrah pilgrims as unwitting carriers. His name had cropped up in February, when the DRI busted a gold smuggling syndicate and seized 4kgs of gold worth Rs 3.47 crore.Surve was arrested on Monday, and…
New Delhi: Several students returned to Jantar Mantar Tuesday with bruises from the beatings by police during Monday’s lathicharge.Among them was Abuzar (22), a Delhi-based student activist pursuing a master’s degree. He alleged that he was assaulted when he stopped to fill his water bottle as the protesters were moving out of Jantar Mantar. “Police…
Swati Mohan Aerospace Engineer and AstroNav Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at visit to Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium. in Bengaluru on Monday. Swati Mohan Aerospace Engineer and AstroNav Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at visit to Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium. in Bengaluru on Monday. Bengaluru: The next India-US Civil Space Joint Working Group…
Train on fire (Video shared by Zelenskyy on X) A passenger train with 340 people onboard was attacked in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed, saying the train’s driver and his assistant were killed in the strike.Zelenskyy said a Russian drone struck the locomotive of the passenger train. He said the…
Lucknow: Police on Sunday arrested four people in connection with the murder of a former village pradhan and former BJP mandal president Tej Bahadur Yadav in Balrampur on May 14.Yadav was allegedly beaten to death with iron rods and sticks during a dispute at a wedding in Golhipur village of the district.According to police, the…
Govt school teacher Bhawani Singh who died after census duty in Bharatpur’s Halena on Thursday evening Alwar: A 39-year-old govt schoolteacher died of a suspected heart attack in Halena town of Bharatpur district, shortly after returning from census duty Thursday evening.According to police, schoolteacher Bhawani Singh returned to his rented room around 6pm and complained…
Homeguards’ alert helps police crack murder case. BENGALURU: When an armed gang of assailants hacked rowdysheeter and murder suspect Rajubhai to death in public at JP Nagar main road last Saturday evening, two motorists in khaki were seen passing the scene. A video showing the same went viral on social media, netizens questioning whether they…
For thousands of years, the Bolson tortoise had been missing from the grasslands of New Mexico. Then a private ranch offered the species something it had not had in generations: space to start again. What began with just 30 captive tortoises grew into a population of roughly 800 through a long-running conservation effort backed by…
Chennai: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) arrested Ponneri sub-registrar Sankar and two private document writers after they were caught accepting a ₹15,000 bribe from a man for releasing registered property documents on Wednesday.The complainant, Natarajan, had registered two properties at the Ponneri sub-registrar’s office. Sankar, along with private document writers Ramesh and Nithya,…
