A dance teacher jumped into the Yamuna river in Delhi due to financial stress. NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old dance teacher allegedly jumped into the Yamuna in southeast Delhi after a decline in his income made it difficult for him to pay the instalments on an iPhone, police said.The incident took place around 8.30 pm on…
Gurgaon: Two motorcycle-borne men were killed after an unidentified vehicle hit their bike near the Sarai Khwaja toll plaza on the Delhi-Agra national highway at 5 pm on Saturday.The deceased Golu, from Dausa, Rajasthan, and Prince, from Khurja, Uttar Pradesh, were brothers-in-law. Prince was married to Golu’s sister. Golu worked as a loading tempo driver,…
Divya Mishra, Manas Bajpai LUCKNOW: He had just witnessed a woman being shot when the man who pulled the trigger hopped into his autorickshaw. Before the driver could understand what had happened, two firearms were pressed against his head.“Take me home immediately, or I’ll blow your head off,” accused Manas Bajpai, a field officer in…
PM Modi interacted with members of India’s space startups on the occasion of National Space Day NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday shared a video of his interaction with members of India’s space startups on the occasion of National Space Day, highlighting their energy and ambition in the country’s growing space sector.Sharing the…
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual on the Moon: tiny green flecks scattered across the otherwise grey surface. They collected samples and brought them back to Earth, unaware that the material would decades later challenge a long-held belief about the Moon. According to…
Aishwarya Lekshmi has built a successful career in South Indian cinema after making a very different choice from the path her parents had imagined for her. Despite completing her MBBS degree, the actress chose films instead of medicine and went on to become one of the recognised names in Malayalam cinema. Now, filmmaker and actor…
Australia beat Bangladesh in two days. (Pic credit: CA) Former Australia opener Justin Langer has slammed the increasing frequency of Test matches ending inside two days, calling the trend “unacceptable” after Australia wrapped up an innings-and-51-run victory over Bangladesh in Mackay on Sunday.Australia needed only 750 balls to complete the second Test, bouncing back from…
Indian space programme (representative image) BENGALURU: August 23, 2023, gave India an image it had waited decades to see: a spacecraft settling on the Moon, its lander and rover beginning work near the lunar south polar region. But the significance of Chandrayaan-3 was perhaps easier to understand if one looked backwards.Six decades earlier, India was…
Officials can be seen assessing the accident site. (AI-generated image used for representational purpose) NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old man died and another was injured after a truck allegedly hit their motorcycle at IP Flyover in central Delhi early Sunday morning.The deceased, Aman, a resident of Madanpur Khadar, was riding a black Hero Honda Splendor with…
A sound box system collapsed during actor Yash’s film event in Hyderabad (Visuals credit: X) HYDERABAD: Four people, including a student, were injured after a sound box system collapsed during the pre-release event of actor Yash-starrer ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups’ at a private university in Hyderabad on Saturday night.The incident occurred at Malla…
