The evening featured Awadhi, Bhojpuri and Rajasthani folk performances Lucknow: Folk music and dance took centre stage at the ‘Traditional Folk Art Festival’ celebrating Ganga-Jamuni culture at Mohan Singh Bisht Auditorium on Sunday.The programme opened with a Ganpati Vandana, followed by the dance drama ‘Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb’, which depicted communal harmony through visuals of temple aarti…
Sourav Ganguly and Stve Waugh in Wankhede Stadium Kolkata: Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and his wife Dona have received death threats, following which the Kolkata Police STF and the directorate of security have started a probe. STF has zeroed in on a location 32km from the Gangulys’ Behala house, from where threat letters…
Pune: Former home minister and senior NCP politician Dilip Walse Patil has refuted allegations linking him to a milk adulteration case, saying he would quit public life if charges levelled against him were proved.Walse Patil also threatened to initiate criminal proceedings and seek substantial damages for defamation against those making “false and politically motivated allegations.”Walse…
Scrap dealer, a representational image Ludhiana: The police commissionerate has ordered all local scrap dealers to maintain meticulous registers of buyers and sellers, including identification and material descriptions, to curb the trade of stolen industrial and vehicle parts.Enforced for two months under Section 163 of the BNSS, the directive targets miscreants who sell stolen transformers,…
Pune: A 64-year-old resident of Kalepadal lost Rs 18 lakh to cybercriminals in a digital arrest fraud between April 8 and 15 this year.The senior citizen lodged a complaint with Kalepadal police on Tuesday.An officer from the Kalepadal police said the elderly man received a video call from an unknown number on April 8. The…
Lucknow: The Lucknow unit of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) filed a massive 1.5-lakh-page chargesheet in the multi-crore interstate codeine-laced cough syrup trafficking racket, identifying 30 people involved in the illegal network that allegedly operated between 2019 and 2024.STF officials said the racket involved illegal transactions and trafficking worth more than Rs 1,000 crore,…
Cristiano Ronaldo gifts IShowSpeed his game-worn World Cup boots after Portugal’s FIFA World Cup exit/ Image: X Cristiano Ronaldo has gifted streamer IShowSpeed one of the most exclusive pieces of memorabilia from the FIFA World Cup 2026, sending him the game-worn Nike Mercurial Superfly 11 “CR7 Gold Scorpion” boots he wore during what is widely…
As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, forming these melt ponds in the Arctic | Wikimedia Commons Climate change is often discussed in terms of global averages, but new research suggests that where warming or cooling occurs may be just as important as how much occurs. Using…
— Attachment Content: 25vns1-_KV-Krishna_Janambhumi_temples_to_add_colours_to_Holi_of_Kashi-Mathura.txt —Kashi Vishwanath–Shri Krishna Janamsthal temples add colours to Holi celebrations in Kashi-MathuraRajeev.Dikshit@timesofindia.comVaranasi: Famous for their Lathmar Holi and Rangbhari Ekadashi, Braj and Kashi will embrace each other’s traditions this year.The gift of colour and gulal sent from the KV temple will be offered to ‘Priya-Priyatam’ in Mathura on Rangbhari Ekadashi on…
Noida: Along its length of 500 metres or so, the surface of the road near Purvanchal Royal City in Sector Chi 5 is pockmarked with dozens of cracks, patches, divots and holes. In some spots where the surface has worn away entirely, three or more layers of road lie exposed.The stretch, which runs under Yamuna…
