Jaisalmer: On a day when families across the country were celebrating Raksha Bandhan, a young Agniveer soldier, who had come home on leave, drowned in a water tank at his agricultural field in Barmer Friday.The incident occurred in Pareu village under the Gida police station area of Balotra district. The deceased, identified as Jogaram, had…
CJI Surya Kant said clean energy push unfair on developing nations NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant Friday told Commonwealth countries it was unfair that industrialised nations, who took two centuries to adopt clean energy, were asking nations in the process of industrialisation to move towards renewable energy within decades.Speaking at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London,…
Nathan Cofnas, the academic who exposed Cambridge University Sociology professor Jason Arday’s plagiarism, faced objections from fellow academics at Ghent University over his appointment to a postdoctoral research role.Cofnas joined the Belgian university in March for a project examining “the future of liberalism”. Soon after his appointment, professors of philosophy and moral sciences department raised…
Yash starrer ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups’ may have received a mixed critical response, but the film made a strong start at the box office, crossing the Rs 100 crore mark in India on its opening day. The milestone also marked Yash’s second Rs 100 crore opener after ‘KGF Chapter 2’.Given the divided response…
For years, the Dead Sea presented scientists with a genuine puzzle. Its upper waters, warmed by relentless sun and thickened by evaporation, seemed to shed salt each summer rather than accumulate it, while the lakebed far below kept gaining a fresh crust of crystals regardless of season. According to a 2016 study published in Limnology…
Home becomes the centre of your world today, Scorpio, and not in a dull way. The Moon supports domestic comfort, while Venus adds pleasure and Jupiter favours property matters. You may feel pulled toward family, household upgrades, or simply making your space more beautiful and functional.Your mother or a mother figure may be especially supportive….
New Delhi: Public Works Department (PWD) is set to undertake patch repairs on damaged stretches of Ring Road and NH-8 to address potholes, worn-out surfaces and localised road damage on two of Delhi’s busiest corridors.The work will involve removing distressed portions of the existing carriageway and replacing them with fresh bituminous concrete. Instead of resurfacing…
Disha Salian’s father had filed the plea Mumbai: Bombay HC on Friday concluded the hearing of and reserved for orders a petition filed by Satish Salian, father of the late celebrity manager Disha Salian, who had sought a fair and thorough probe after alleging that she was assaulted and murdered and did not die by…
Bengaluru: Citizens, activists and walkers have launched a postcard campaign urging govt to scrap the proposed Hebbal-Silk Board tunnel road project, which is expected to pass beneath Lalbagh and require over five acres of the garden’s land.The postcards, addressed to chief minister DK Shivakumar, call for no part of Lalbagh to be used for shafts,…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s 108 ambulance network has identified 70 road accident “super-hotspots” across the state—busy stretches where crashes occur so frequently during morning and evening rush hours that one ambulance cannot reliably meet demand.The designation has prompted the emergency service to add vehicles or create standby clusters around the most congested locations, including Koyambedu CMBT…
