Ponda: A brief distraction nearly caused a large passenger van to overturn at Bhoma on Saturday.The vehicle, carrying about 10 tourists from Davangiri, Karnataka, to Panaji, veered out of control when the driver leaned down to pick up a water bottle. The incident occurred on a narrow road stretch near the Devi Sati shrine at…
Ahmedabad: A 59-year-old sub-postmaster at HSG-2 was allegedly caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 at the sub-post office in Paldi on Saturday.According to Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), the sub-postmaster had allegedly demanded Rs 30,000 from a citizen to block an order concerning an NDC parcel office.Disturbed by the continuous corruption and the unfair…
Panchkula: A 54-year-old woman from DLF Valley, Sector 3, Panchkula, has allegedly been duped of Rs 76,654 by cyber fraudsters posing as RTO (Regional Transport Office) officials while she was trying to get her Audi Q5 registered in Haryana.The victim, identified as Renu approached the Cyber Crime Police after realising that the persons who contacted…
Pune: The collective storage of four key dams – Khadakwasla, Panshet, Varasgaon and Temghar – slipped by 1 TMC to 28.2 TMC from 29.15 TMC.Among the four dams, Khadakwasla dam witnessed the highest reduction, from 100% to 54% storage capacity and lost 1 TMC. The collective storage now stands at 96.8%. The reason behind such…
Lucknow: A seven-year-old boy suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome, severe pneumonia and septic shock was discharged on Friday after spending 22 days in the Trauma Critical Care Unit at King Georges Medical University, where he required mechanical ventilation for 14 days.Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare condition where your immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nerves.The child…
Five BSF jawans injured after vehicle overturns on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway JAMMU: Five BSF officials were injured after their truck, headed to Jammu from Srinagar, overturned on National Highway-44 near Chamba Seri in J&K’s Ramban district Saturday. The driver sustained critical injuries, a source said.In another accident, a man died and five other occupants of…
Kunal Khemu‘s ‘VIBE’ recorded an increase in its box office earnings on Saturday, September 19. The action thriller comedy earned Rs 2.65 cr in India net on Day 2, according to Sacnilk. The movie was screened across 2,979 shows on its first Saturday. The latest collection marks a 55.9% rise over the Rs 1.70 cr…
Quimcy Dsouza’s Asian Games campaign ended in heartbreaking fashion as the Indian teqball player went down 0-2 to Japan’s world No. 7 Yuina Sakamoto in the women’s singles bronze medal match here on Saturday.Despite the straight-set defeat, the 11-12, 11-12 scoreline hardly reflects how close the Mumbai player came to claiming the bronze. With a…
Writer Nasera Sharma at her residence For many literature lovers, Nasera Sharma is the author of the Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel, ‘Parijat’. But as a freelance journalist and researcher, she has also interviewed top West Asian leaders.In the early 1980s, Iran was uncertain. The monarchy was gone; clerics had taken over. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was…
Former JNU student activist Umar Khalid BENGALURU: National Law School of India University’s student body Law and Society Committee has scrapped a planned screening of a documentary on jailed former JNU student activist Umar Khalid after ABVP opposition and warnings that it could trigger FIRs against students and faculty.The committee planned to screen filmmaker Lalit…
