Kolkata: The city is likely to get intensified thunderstorm activities on Wednesday, the day of the polls. The IMD has issued an orange alert for Kolkata, where the showers are expected to be accompanied by lightning and gusty wind. The enhanced thunderstorm activity alert also extends to Howrah, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly. All these…
Ahmedabad: The contest in Chandkheda ward during the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections turned high-profile as ‘cousins’ from the Congress and BJP were pitted against each other. Congress fielded sitting woman corporator Rajshree Kesari for one of the four seats in Chandkheda ward. The BJP, meanwhile, fielded Yashkumar Jadav, son of former corporator Jayanti Jadav, for…
Chandigarh: Shooters killed two men and wounded a teenager during their evening walk in Batala area’s Bhoma village on Monday night.Kashmir Singh, 40, and local kabaddi player Jugraj Singh, 19, were ambushed on the village outskirts between 9 and 9.30pm. A third companion, 18-year-old Jugraj Singh, remains hospitalised with gunshot wounds.Batala senior superintendent of police…
Science pointed the way. Legs carried it through. A routine VO2 max test — a measure of how efficiently body uses oxygen under increasing workload — redirected Army runner Sawan Barwal from track to marathon. Two years later, it delivered a national record, erasing a 48year-old mark.Barwal, 28, a havildar, clocked 2:11:58 on his marathon…
Lucknow: UP’s tourism and culture sectors have seen a massive rise in government funding over the past few years with tourism budget allocations increasing 22-fold and culture spending rising nearly 20 times since 2017, according to officials at the Tourism Department’s Standing Committee meeting on Tuesday.Tourism minister Jaiveer Singh said: “the sharp increase speaks for…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday accused the Centre of giving a “clean chit to Pakistan” as defence minister Rajnath Singh said that “terrorism has no nationality and theology.”In a social media post on X, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the new “stance is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policy appeasement of the US…
Melbourne: Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay news reporters. Govt released draft legislation in this regard on Tuesday. Govt intends to introduce the same in parliament by July 2 that would create a financial incentive for the social media companies to strike deals with…
New Delhi: Two days before revision of jet fuel (ATF) prices, the airline industry has sent an “SoS” to the Centre, seeking its “urgent intervention” on fuel pricing.While commercial carriers had won a reprieve last month on ATF (aviation turbine fuel) prices, with the hike in base price for domestic flights capped at 25% and…
Chris Pratt is one of Aubrey Plaza‘s biggest fans, and now that she is expecting her first baby with partner Christopher Abbott, he could not be more thrilled for her. The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star, 46, shared his warm reaction to the pregnancy news at the Beverage Forum in Manhattan Beach, California, on April…
AP SSC result 2026 date and time AP SSC result 2026: The Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh (BSEAP) will declare the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Class 10 board exam results on April 30, 2026, at 11 AM, according to Lokesh Nara. Students who appeared for the examination will be able to check their results…
