Rajkot: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (Main), Rajkot, has ruled in favor of an academician observing that a bank unilaterally extended his daughter’s education loan tenure from seven years to over 15 years and falsely demanded nearly Rs 9.96 lakh following complete repayment.The complainant, Thankchan Jose Kaitharath, had availed of an education loan of…
Big setback for Congress in Khetri Jhunjhunu: In a political upset in the Khetri Municipality chairperson election, Geeta Saini was elected unopposed after she quit Congress and joined BJP minutes before the nominations closed Wednesday. BJP named her as its candidate, and with no rival nomination filed, she was declared elected.Saini had won ward No…
Priyank Kharge questions delay in Umar Khalid’s trial NEW DELHI: Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were “afraid” of jailed student activist Umar Khalid and challenged them to conduct his trial.“Why are they (BJP government) not bringing up the trial? It’s been…
Praadhyumn Indaana, the 17-year-old Montvale, New Jersey student (Image Credit: Davidson Institute) A better understanding of how much heat a nuclear reactor can safely handle could have implications far beyond a single engineering calculation. For 17-year-old Praadhyumn Indaana of Montvale, New Jersey, that challenge became the focus of an eight-month research project combining physics and…
Delhi HC asks ‘Mirzapur – The Movie’ makers’ lawyer if ‘conscience is satisfied’ over ‘Shoorveer’ song row: ‘You are playing such a scene in the background song on Maharana Pratap’ The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the makers of ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ over their use of ‘Shoorveer’, a song originally composed as a tribute…
Nikola Tesla (Image: Wikipedia) Life rarely follows a formula that can predict exactly what comes next. People make plans, set goals and try to control their circumstances, yet unexpected events can change everything within moments. Nikola Tesla, one of history’s most influential inventors, once described life in similarly mathematical terms. “Life is and will ever…
New Delhi: The Sept 6 building collapse in Satya Niketan that claimed seven lives, including those of students, was not an “ordinary mishap” but a result of “criminal conduct”, Delhi high court said Wednesday.A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said these students came from small towns to the capital with…
As many as 20,703 idols were immersed across Thane city, including nearly 9,600 clay idols Thane: Thane’s first day of Ganpati idol immersion was marked by deafening processions on Tuesday, with noise levels touching 100 decibels (dB) at key immersion points late night, anti-noise activist Mahesh Bedekar said.Bedekar, who recorded the noise levels across several…
On weekend mornings, small circles are forming across Bengaluru, where strangers gather to say the things that are usually left unsaid: the weight of family expectations, the ache of feeling left behind, the fear of ageing and the vulnerability of intimacy. Some truths are easier to share with someone who doesn’t already know your story.Sharing…
Chennai: City police arrested Nakheeran reporter Damodaran Prakash, 58, on Wednesday following a complaint from a 38-year-old woman YouTube host over a video that contained derogatory remarks and personal allegations against her. Police said the video had been uploaded in Jan 2026.According to the complaint, the video used the woman’s photograph and made false claims…
