Ahmedabad: The city on Saturday recorded a maximum temperature of 43.3°C, which was 1.6 degrees higher than normal. It was the second consecutive day of 43°C-plus temperature for the city. At 28 degrees, the minimum temperature, too, was 1.8 degrees higher than normal. During morning and evening hours, the citizens got a bit of respite…
Chandigarh: The municipal corporation (MC) is set to purchase 10 new water tankers to augment its water supply capacity in crisis-hit areas, particularly densely populated colonies, during the summer season.According to officials, the MC engineering department has finalised the specifications for the tankers, which will be made of stainless steel to ensure water purity. Each…
PUNE: The alleged rape and murder of a three-year-old girl near Nasrapur in Bhor taluka on Friday afternoon triggered widespread outrage and protests across the district, leading to several road blockades, which continued late into Saturday evening.The accused, identified as Bhimrao Kamble, a 65-year-old farm labourer and resident of a neighbouring village, was apprehended by…
Lucknow: Jewellery worth over ₹8 crore and a licenced revolver were stolen from a villa belonging to a Gorakhpur-based contractor in a posh residential colony in Barabanki, police said.The theft took place at the house of Ajay Singh Baghel in Shalimar Paradise under the Kotwali Nagar police station limits. Baghel told police that the jewellery,…
Jaipur: Rajasthan Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) Saturday arrested three accused in separate cases linked to impersonation in recruitment examinations, officials said.Police have identified the accused as Manohar Lal, Ashok Jani and Sunil, who allegedly acted as dummy candidates to help original applicants secure govt jobs.According to ADG (SOG) Vishal Bansal, the probe found that…
CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Punjab police are believed to have filed two FIRs against Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who switched from AAP to BJP a week ago along with six others.While sources close to govt confirmed the FIRs, no one was willing to talk about it. No official statement on the nature of the allegations had…
Adam Back has spent weeks being asked yet again, by various people, whether he is the inventor of Bitcoin. He is not, he says. He has been saying so for years and again since the New York Times suggested in early April, after dissecting writings from the early cypherpunk era, that Adam Back was the…
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilise the domestic labour market with a global race to develop AI technologies.The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused…
Riteish Deshmukh had been working on his passion project, ‘Raja Shivaji’, for a long time. Now, the film has finally been released in theatres and is receiving love from the audience. The movie is based on the life of the founder of the Maratha empire, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.Reportedly, the movie was filmed simultaneously in Marathi…
MS Dhoni, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma (Image credit: SKY’s X account) NEW DELHI: Just ahead of the IPL 2026 clash between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Suryakumar Yadav shared a picture on social media with Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni. He captioned it, “Group DP mil…
