Ahmedabad: Navratri celebrations across the world are bringing together Gujaratis, professionals, students and Indian families, with some participants even travelling for hours to enjoy fun-filled nights of garba and raas. Temples and cultural organisations are hosting programmes for all nine nights, while popular artistes are drawing larger crowds during weekend events. From New Jersey and…
Karan SharmaLudhiana: For years, Aishwin Kaur dreamt of standing on an international podium with the Tricolour flying high above her. In Malaysia this week, that dream came true.The 20-year-old table tennis player from Ludhiana returned from the Asia Pacific Deaf Multi-Sport Championship 2026 with an impressive haul of four medals, including two gold and two…
Chandigarh: Observing “complete red-tapism and inaction”, the Punjab and Haryana high court has proposed imposing costs of Rs 10 lakh each on the offices of the Director General, Department of Town and Country Planning, and the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP), to be deposited with the Poor Patient Welfare Fund at the Postgraduate Institute of…
The GMRT, near Pune, was designed nearly four decades ago to detect the hydrogen signal from galaxies in the early Universe Pune: Indian astronomers, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) near Pune, recently detected an extremely faint radio signal of atomic hydrogen from galaxies that existed 8-9 billion years ago. The detection is a…
Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB), the world’s largest office building, remains one of the flagship projects within DREAM City Surat: DREAM City has cleared key planning and regulatory approvals that pave the way for large-scale development, including a revised master plan, a land disposal policy and updated development control regulations.Authorities have also floated a request for…
Shillong: Security will be tightened in Shillong before and during Durga Puja to ensure peaceful celebrations.East Khasi Hills district superintendent of police Vivek Syiem said police would seek additional state forces for the festive period. Round-the-clock mobile patrolling and tactical team deployments will be carried out across the city, particularly around puja pandals and other…
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Rajkot: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl died after falling from the fifth floor of a 7-storey residential building on Kuwadva Road in Rajkot on Monday evening, with police strongly suspecting that she was flung to her death rather than having fallen accidentally.The police have initiated a murder investigation even though the formal offence will be registered after…
Jaipur: In one of the largest recoveries of munitions dropped by drone from across the border with Pakistan, Rajasthan police’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) early Tuesday recovered a consignment containing nearly 7 kg of explosives, suspected to be RDX, two Turkiye-made handguns and over 600 rounds of ammunition in Rawla subdivision of Sriganganagar district.ANTF IG…
BENGALURU: Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge and chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday reiterated that peaceful protest is fundamental to democracy and promised a review of police action against anti-SIR demonstrators in Bengaluru.Activists, however, said assurances were not enough and demanded the withdrawal of the police licensing order restricting protests to Freedom Park and restoration of…
