Mumbai: A food delivery agent died after a speeding auto knocked him down, and a truck ran over him on the Western Express Highway in the early hours of Thursday. Both the drivers fled the spot. The deceased has been identified as Akhilesh Chowdhary Kamat, who was on his way to complete an order, police…
Tumakuru: Searing heat wave conditions and rising mercury levels in Tumakaru have been linked to deaths of 35 peacocks this week. The deaths, reported from areas such as Bommanahalli and Machenahalli, were spread out over distances of 500 metres to 1 km, indicating a widespread impact rather than an isolated incident.Veterinary teams conducted postmortems and…
Hyderabad: The state cabinet on Thursday signalled a twin-track push on accountability and governance, deciding that chief minister A Revanth Reddy and irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy will meet the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek a probe into alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. At the same…
Gurgaon: A 29-year-old executive with a govt organisation was found dead in his rented flat in Sector 53 on Thursday morning, with police suspecting he may have died due to an overdose of sexual enhancement pills.According to sources, police are awaiting the man’s postmortem report to confirm the exact cause of death and the suspicion…
Nandigram: During the polls of 2021, a wheelchair-bound Mamata Banerjee chose Nandigram’s Boyal as her anchorage, scripting one of the defining moments of a razor-edge contest. In 2026, it was Suvendu Adhikari — once her opponent, now facing aide-turned-foe Pabitra Kar — choosing the same Boyal as his basecamp. It’s here that all eyes tracking…
The impact threw the mother and child onto the road, leaving them critically injured Noida: A mother-son duo died after a truck allegedly rammed into their cycle in Sector 68. The woman’s husband, Mubarak Ansari, also sustained critical injuries and is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi.According to cops, the family hails from Bihar….
Panaji: Goa has recorded a surge in the number of unused vehicles scrapped in the financial year 2025-26. Additional director of transport Rajesh Naik said that 1,220 vehicles have been scrapped in the 2025-26 fiscal year, a steep increase compared to 146 vehicles processed in 2024-25.The rise follows state govt’s notification of a formal vehicle…
Gorakhpur: International yoga athlete Arpan Kannaujia, who won two medals at a yogasana competition held in Sri Lanka, met chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday morning at the Gorakhnath Temple and sought his blessings.A Class 12 student at Academic Global School, Jungle Dhusad, Arpan presented her medals to the chief minister and shared that she…
Ahmedabad: Several Gujarat-based companies have delivered sharply better returns from their March-April lows than the benchmark indices, highlighting strong stock-specific recovery in the state’s corporate universe.While the Nifty rose 8.98% from its low of 22,182 to 24,173, and the sensex gained 8.55% from 71,545.8 to 77,664, a number of Gujarat-linked stocks posted far stronger advances.Gujarat…
Amritsar: A day after his detention in Assam’s Dibrugarh Central Jail under the National Security Act (NSA) ended, Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh was on Thursday arrested by Punjab Police in the 2023 Ajnala police station attack case. He was produced before a court in Amritsar virtually, which remanded him to two-day police custody.Amritpal Singh,…
