Residents rescued a pelican from a suspected poacher at Korattur Lake and handed over the bird to Forest Department officials. Chennai: A pelican suffered a neck injury after it was attacked by a man at Korattur lake around 9am on Saturday. People at the spot intervened, chased the man away and alerted forest officials, who…
For an industry once accustomed to celebrating 50-day and 100-day runs, such milestones now belong to another era. Hyderabad: A renewed sense of jubilation is sweeping through Telugu cinema. In just two months, six Telugu films have set cash registers on fire at the box office. Declared hits by current industry standards, these successes have…
The incident took place on the Belgharia-Golbagan auto route..Arpita Bera Kolkata: A 23-year-old postgraduate student of Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) jumped out of a moving auto-rickshaw to escape an alleged molestation by its driver at Nimta in North Dum Dum on Friday night.According to police sources, the woman was sitting beside the driver while returning…
Katya Coelho is upbeat ahead of her second Asian Games participation Panaji: A recent post on social media summed up Katya Coelho’s mind the best.“Giving up was never an option,” she said, sharing a video of her training, competing, falling down and, of course, getting up again. It’s what she has probably gone through for…
Gorakhpur: A 34-year-old man from Siddharth Nagar died after being swept away by a sudden surge in a river in Nepal, where he had gone to visit his maternal relatives on Raksha Bandhan. His body was recovered on Saturday.The deceased, Prabhat Soni, a resident of Itwa Nagar Panchayat, had travelled to Mau Jignihwa village bordering…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s electricity consumption has surged by nearly 64% over the past decade, driven primarily by rapid industrial expansion. State planners now preparing for demand to cross 250 billion units (BU) annually by 2035-36 as manufacturing, data centres and the digital economy fuel the next phase of growth.According to data from Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam…
Chandigarh: A man arrested by the Khanna CIA in a heroin seizure case allegedly escaped from police custody after he and his relatives threw red chilli powder into the eyes of police personnel during a search of his Sector 38 residence on Friday evening.The accused, Deepak Thapa, a resident of Sector 38, was arrested by…
Pune: Three men allegedly beat up a 44-year-old autorickshaw driver near Mandai Metro Station around 10pm on Thursday after he refused to take them on a short-distance trip.The autorickshaw driver, Vishal Kamble (44), a resident of Gokhalenagar, lodged a complaint with the Vishrambaug police on Friday.Senior inspector Navnath Jagtap said, “The trio approached Kamble and…
Guwahati: For days, the flash floods in Nepal have kept several families in Assam trapped in a cruel limbo — caught between desperate hope and the fear of the worst.For retired Gauhati University professor Dipali Sarkar’s family in Guwahati, the trip has now turned into a search for answers. Sarkar and her husband, Manash Kumar…
Lucknow: They may look like little patches of moss on rocks or tree trunks, but lichens can tell scientists a great deal about the health of the environment.In a breakthrough, the CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI) has discovered nine lichen species in Madhya Pradesh’s Maihar and Satna districts..The study, conducted by Gaurav K. Mishra of…
