Varanasi/Chennai: DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum, located at Muttukadu on Chennai’s East Coast Road, offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience South India’s art, architecture, lifestyle, crafts and performing traditions in a living form.Established by the Madras Craft Foundation, an NGO, the museum opened to the public on December 14, 1996. Situated about 25 km south of…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat led the country in new investor registrations in Aug, adding 2.3 lakh investors, NSE data showed. The state also had five districts among the national top 10 and 10 among the top 20, likely for the first time.The surge extended beyond Ahmedabad and other major urban centres. Ahmedabad, Surat, Bhavnagar, Rajkot and Junagadh…
India hockey player Deepika Sehrawat Rohtak: From following her elder brother to a wrestling mat in Hisar to rewriting the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 hockey record books, Deepika Sehrawat’s journey has been anything but conventional.The 22-year-old forward from Bhaisuru village in the district delivered a stunning performance at the 2026 Asian Games on Sunday, scoring…
BLOs at work in Pune district for SIR Pune: The district election machinery has yet to generate notices for 4,01,075 of the 13,32,845 electors flagged for verification. The notice generation and distribution process started in the state on Monday.Notices were generated for 9,31,783 electors, leaving 30% pending. Of these, only 3,157 were delivered, while 9,28,626…
CCTV footage of the fire at the market in Surat Surat: The massive fire that gutted goods worth Rs 24 crore at Saroli’s Shyam Sangini Textile Market on Sept 9 was allegedly an act of arson carried out by a former accountant who wanted to “teach his employer a lesson” over Rs 10,000 in unpaid…
Shillong: The Meghalaya Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) seized 40.12 grams of heroin, valued at around Rs 7 lakh in the illicit market, and arrested two alleged carriers in Shillong’s Pynthorumkhrah area on Monday.“Acting on credible intelligence inputs regarding the transportation of narcotics from Silchar, Assam, to Shillong for delivery, the state ANTF deployed its personnel…
Orchestra system developed by IIT-Kanpur researchers Kanpur/Lucknow: Just a tap of the fingers, and the orchestra follows. For musicians, keeping the rhythm going could soon be as simple as a few well-timed finger taps. IIT-Kanpur researchers have developed a sensor-based Smart Virtual Orchestra that can read a musician’s gestures and instantly generate matching percussion accompaniment…
Palanpur: One pilgrim was killed and 11 others were injured after a speeding SUV rammed into a group of devotees walking to Ambaji for the Bhadarvi Poonam fair near Dolgadh, close to Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha district, on Monday.The incident occurred when the SUV allegedly sped past a barricade and hit a Gujarat Rakshak Dal (GRD)…
Jaipur: Smaller parties made notable inroads in Rajasthan’s urban local bodies Monday, with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), CPM and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) forming boards in Baran, Nokha and Marwar Mundwa, respectively, breaking BJP-Congress dominance in pockets of the state.The results were limited in scale but politically significant because these parties converted ward-level gains into…
NEW DELHI: The NCP (SP) on Monday demanded a complete rollback of the 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified UPI merchant transactions above Rs 2,000, calling the move a “direct assault” on small traders and shopkeepers.NCP (SP) state spokesperson Mahesh Tapase alleged that the decision reflected “double standards” by the Narendra Modi government, questioning…
