Track Damage at Nungambakkam Delays Chennai Beach–Tambaram Suburban Trains Chennai: A day after suburban train services resumed following scheduled track maintenance, a crack on the railway track at Platform 1 of Nungambakkam station caused delays in peak-hour services on the busy Beach-Tambaram suburban corridor on Tuesday morning.Railway officials imposed a speed restriction after the crack…
Varanasi: A bag containing 31 passports was recovered from a pond in Tulapur village under the Kachhwa police station area of Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district after it became entangled in a fishing net on Monday afternoon. The passports belonged to people from several districts, prompting police to launch an investigation.Mirzapur ASP (city) Nitesh Singh said…
‘We’re working on for first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission this year’, says Isro chief V Narayanan NEW DELHI: Isro chairman V Narayanan said on Saturday that the country is preparing for the first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission, advancing Chandrayaan-4, a lunar sample return mission, and Chandrayaan-5, a joint long-duration mission with Japan involving a heavier rover.Delivering the…
Kolkata: The Bengal Gas Co Ltd (BGCL) has begun supplying piped natural gas (PNG) in Chandernagore, the second town after Kalyani in the KMDA area. The supply started on July 10, and the company aims to provide 500 connections in the next two months, officials said.“We began supplying PNG in Chandernagore last week. We have…
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress lurched towards its biggest rupture in 28 years Monday after rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claimed support of 20 MPs and wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking recognition as a separate parliamentary bloc that would back BJP-led NDA.If the numbers hold, rebels would clear the two-thirds threshold needed to…
NEW DELHI: Bhabanipur constituency witnessed high-voltage drama as chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her arch-rival Suvendu Adhikari traded barbs at each other amid the ongoing polling for the second phase of the West Bengal assembly elections.As voting began on Wednesday, Mamata and Suvendu landed in the same polling booth area and took swipes at one…
New Delhi: An evening outing of three childhood friends ended in tragedy after the youths from Kalyanpuri, aged 22, drowned in Sanjay Jheel in east Delhi on Tuesday evening. Their families have alleged that the deaths were a result of negligence.The park area surrounding the lake, which has been developed by Delhi Development Authority (DDA),…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 28 June 1712 “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”Few opening lines in political philosophy are as famous as this one. Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762 as the first sentence of…
Swapnil Sagar returned from Houston, US to India to his family in Bengaluru “I feel free,” says former Microsoft professional Swapnil Sagar, who has left behind what many would call the American Dream and returned to India after a decade in the United States, citing visa uncertainty and job instability as key reasons for his…
NTA extends wishes to NEET-UG 2026 candidates (File Photo) NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday extended its best wishes to lakhs of students appearing for the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, urging them to remain calm and reach their examination centres well before time, accoridng to news agency ANI.In a post on X, the…
