Ludhiana: Residents are enduring a relentless 24-hour heat cycle as night-time temperatures in the industrial hub hit a yearly high, providing no reprieve from a blistering daytime heatwave.The mercury failed to drop below 25°C on Sunday night, marking the warmest evening of 2026 so far. With temperatures tracking significantly above seasonal norms, the India Meteorological…
Barinderjit.SalujaMohali: The Punjab Artificial Intelligence System (PAIS) app proved useful for Mohali police on Saturday night when they stopped a biker for routine checking at a checkpost on Airport Road.DSP Harsimran Singh Bal said that when asked about his identity, the man provided incorrect details. Police personnel took his photograph and uploaded it on the…
Pune: The civic administration will reinforce the mandatory use of QR codes for legal hoardings starting Monday. These codes will contain details about the advertising agencies and the validity of each hoarding.“Hoardings without such codes will be deemed illegal and demolished. This decision was taken following complaints about unauthorised hoardings,” said Madhav Jagtap, head of…
Itanagar: A special Pocso court in Arunachal Pradesh has awarded death penalty to a man for repeatedly raping his minor niece in 2019 while escorting the girl to her sister’s home in Doimukh, describing the crime as ‘rarest of rare’.Special judge (Pocso) Dr Hirendra Kashyap convicted the 44-year-old man under Sections 376(2)(f) and 506 of…
Lucknow: A madrassa built on purportedly encroached govt land and linked to UK-based cleric Shamsul Huda Khan in Sant Kabir Nagar district was demolished on Sunday. The operation began around 10 am and continued through the day under tight security, with multiple bulldozers razing the structure.Officials said at least six bulldozers were deployed initially to…
Elderly woman dies after casting vote in Patan A 68-year-old woman died of cardiac arrest shortly after casting her vote in the ongoing local body elections in Patan town of north Gujarat on Sunday. Kamla Solanki, a resident of Mayanagar Society, collapsed inside the polling station at BM High School after exercising her franchise. She…
Jodhpur/Jaipur: A brief gunfight ensued in Balesar town of Jodhpur district Sunday as Rajasthan Police’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) stormed a secluded building under construction and busted an illicit mephedrone (MD) manufacturing unit. ANTF sleuths arrested six persons and seized over 170 kg of precursor substances during the raid. IG, ANTF, Vikas Kumar told TOI…
In this screengrab from a video posted on April 26, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers at ‘Thanthania Kalibari’ amid the ongoing West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Sunday prayed at Thanthania Kalibari – one of the few abodes of goddess Kali where meat is offered as ‘prasad’…
White House shooting: Trump being escorted to safety after the incident Washington: The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner sent writings to family members minutes before the shooting, referring to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin,” railing against Trump administration policies and signalling what investigators increasingly believe was a politically…
Union minister Piyush Goyal Agra: The free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand, scheduled to be signed on Monday, will provide huge opportunities for domestic firms, including leather exporters from the city of the Taj Mahal, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Sunday. Goyal is here with the visiting New Zealand’s trade and investment…
