Ahmedabad: Gopi Chandan, the distinct yellowish soil from Gopi Talav, a lake located about 20km from Dwarka town, has been venerated by devotees of Lord Krishna since time immemorial. Legend has it that the gopis — the milkmaids of Vrindavan — travelled to Dwarka to meet Lord Krishna and were ultimately assimilated into the very…
Ludhiana: Premises of four schools in the city were evacuated after a bomb threat was received via e-mail around 9.14am on Wednesday. The mail warned parents against sending their children to school on April 24, the day of the blackout drill, and threatened a bomb blast at 1.11pm. It also mentioned explosions at railway tracks…
Amritsar: Officiating Jathedar of Akal Takht Giani Kuldip Singh Gargaj held an interaction with Sikh youth at Gurdwara Sri Kalgidhar Sahib, Takanini, in Auckland, New Zealand. During the session organised by New Zealand Sikh Youth, the youth raised questions regarding Sikh institutions, narratives being created against Sikhs, maryada (code of conduct), Gurmat (Guru’s wisdom) education…
Pune: Surging temperatures have led to a significant spike in electricity demand, placing the existing power infrastructure under immense pressure.This seasonal shift forces households to lean heavily on high-consumption appliances like air conditioners and water coolers, while also requiring refrigerators to run at maximum cooling capacity to combat the heat.The strain on the electrical grid…
In a major initiative to establish Arunachal Pradesh as a leading tourism destination, the state government has announced plans to transform the Subansiri Lower Pondage into a world-class mountain-and-river immersive tourism hub. Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh govt has announced plans to develop the Subansiri Lower Pondage into a world-class mountain and river immersive tourism hub,…
Lucknow: A 50-year-old private sector employee in Lucknow thwarted a Rs 60 lakh “digital arrest” scam targeting her 86-year-old father by spotting early warning signs and triggering swift police intervention.Huma Mustafa, who had previously undergone cyber awareness training as part of ongoing outreach by the city’s cyber crime unit, noticed subtle but telling changes in…
Accused Dhwaj Kirti Sharma in the custody of the SOG Jaipur: Rajasthan Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) Thursday arrested a man for allegedly facilitating a forged degree used in the RPSC Lecturer Examination-2022 recruitment, officials said.The agency has identified the accused as Dhwaj Kirti Sharma.According to ADG (SOG) Vishal Bansal, the case surfaced during verification…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and resultant spike in crude oil prices, the Indian Navy has made public its maritime security strategy, released recently by Navy chief Admiral D K Tripathi, which mentions Hormuz as “primary area” of interest, among other such “choke points”.Maritime choke points in the Indian…
US will revoke the citizenship of 384 foreign-born Americans. The Donald Trump administration is serious about denaturalizing people who got American citizenship by fraudulent means and already identified 384 foreign-born Americans who will lose their citizenship, the New York Times reported. This will a part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations which…
Pooja Dadlani, long-time manager of Shah Rukh Khan, along with her husband Hitesh Prakash Gurnani and father Mohan Seoram Dadlani, has invested in three apartments in Mumbai’s Bandra area, with the total transaction value pegged at Rs 38.21 crore, as per property registration documents accessed by CRE Matrix. High-value deal in Carter Road project The…
