In 2003, I started teaching French. A few years later, I was asked to conduct a special conversation workshop for two children who wished to learn the foreign language as a hobby. Since the nine-year-old twins could not attend regular courses designed for adults, I would have to teach them at their residence. I reached…
Shashank Nimkar’s venture recycles ceramic rejects Things end up in landfills for a reason — no one has figured out how to make money from them. Metals rarely reach a dump. They have resale value, so an entire economy exists to recover every last kilo. What gets left behind is the material with no price…
A 45-year-old California nurse has been awarded $300,000 after a US jury found a cruise operator partly liable in a case centred on alcohol service and onboard safety. According to the woman’s legal claim, she was served at least 14 tequila shots over roughly nine hours aboard the Carnival Radiance in January 2024, after which…
Punjab Kings’ captain Shreyas Iyer (AP Photo) Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer endured a rare off day with the bat as his side slipped to its first defeat of IPL 2026, with Rajasthan Royals pulling off a successful chase of 223 in a high-scoring contest on Tuesday. Coming into the match in strong form, Iyer…
Hyderabad: Nearly 12 lakh people, enough to rank as the state’s 10th largest community, identified themselves as ‘No Caste’ in the Telangana Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey released on Wednesday night.It shows that this group of 11,96,482 people or 3.4% of the population project themselves as caste neutral, but nearly half of…
Kolkata: Kilburn Engineering has appointed Amritanshu Khaitan as non-executive chairman of its board, effective April 21, 2026, following the completion of the term of current independent chairman Manmohan Singh.Amritanshu, who was previously a director at the company, belongs to the promoter group. The development comes after Aditya Khaitan, chairman of Mcleod Russel, recently resigned as…
Ahmedabad: The city experienced a partly cloudy sky on Friday under the influence of the Western Disturbance, with a trough and an upper-air cyclonic circulation over Rajasthan. However, the mercury touched 40.9 degrees celsius, 1.3 degrees above normal. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast, the maximum temperature on Saturday is likely to be…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor (LG) Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Monday visited the Fire Service Management Academy (FSMA) in Rohini to review operational readiness, training standards and enforcement gaps in the Delhi Fire Service.During the visit, LG reviewed training modules and witnessed live demonstrations of firefighting and rescue operations, including the use of specialised equipment such…
An 80-year British Sikh man is running the London Marathon for the first time on April 26, inspired by Fauja Singh who encouraged him to take up walking initially.Baldev Singh Bains is doing the marathon to raise money for the Fauja Singh Clubhouse, being built in Fauja’s memory in Redbridge, on the route Fauja used…
NEW DELHI: In a daring evening heist in Lutyens’ Delhi, one of the city’s most guarded enclaves, a group of armed burglars held a prominent liquor firm owner and his family captive at their home in Golf Links on Thursday evening before fleeing with a massive haul of cash and jewellery. Police said the crime…
