NEW DELHI: Shooting ace Manu Bhaker has urged her fellow Indian athletes to put the organisational issues surrounding the Asian Games behind them and focus on competition, saying the continental showpiece represents a “once in a lifetime opportunity and experience”.The build-up to the Games in Japan has been marred by complaints from athletes and officials…
A Delhi woman was allegedly shot dead by her husband following a domestic quarrel. NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead by her husband following a quarrel over cooking vegetables at their home in Delhi’s Tigri area on Friday evening, police said.The accused, identified as Kamlesh, allegedly tried to mislead neighbours by claiming…
MUMBAI: BMC has for the first time framed a policy to regulate cricket and other sports turfs being operated on municipal leasehold plots, with the civic body proposing to recover an annual licence fee linked to Ready Reckoner rates.The move comes after the civic administration found that a considerable number of sports turfs were being…
File photo: Thane Police arrest three in connection with TET paper leak case NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test paper allegedly walked out of an Agra printing press hidden inside shoe insoles, with two employees paid Rs 8,000 each to smuggle out the confidential examination material, according to a chargesheet filed by Thane City…
The nearly $500,000 relocation and restoration effort has preserved the pre-Civil War structure, which is now being prepared as a new location for Bizarre Coffee (Image Credit: Facebook/ @Save Acworth History by Mark Turner) A house that survived for more than a century is getting a new life not as a museum, but as a…
Director Santosh Davakhar has reacted to his Marathi thriller ‘Gondhal’ being selected as India’s official entry for the 2027 Academy Awards. The Film Federation of India (FFI) chose the film for the Best International Feature Film category from 33 submissions. Davakhar, who wrote and directed the film, said he and his team had believed in…
Over five decades have passed, but Thaduthuvila Chandapillai Yohannan, the genial octogenarian, recounts that day in Tehran with the enthusiasm of a five-year-old.It’s the 1974 Asian Games and the then 28-year-old long jumper’s left toe is swollen. He walks onto the runway, taking painkillers.Yohannan’s first attempt lands at 7.25m. The pain shoots up and he…
Protest at IIT-Bombay (ANI Photo) MUMBAI: The instructor and Head of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering counselled a second-year student and assured him that an incident in which he was found using a mobile phone during an examination would not adversely affect his academic career, said IIT-Bombay in a statement issued after protests…
Two girls rescued after fire in residential flat at Pimple Saudagar Two girls rescued after fire in residential flat at Pimple Saudagar Two girls rescued after fire in residential flat at Pimple Saudagar Two girls rescued after fire in residential flat at Pimple Saudagar Two girls rescued after fire in residential flat at Pimple Saudagar…
A 31-year-old man was allegedly murdered and beheaded in Jorhat district JORHAT: A 31-year-old man was allegedly murdered and beheaded in Assam’s Jorhat district following a dispute over his alleged relationship with a neighbour’s wife, with police arresting four people in connection with the crime, officials said.The deceased was identified as Anil Rajgarh, a resident…
