Quimcy Dsouza’s Asian Games campaign ended in heartbreaking fashion as the Indian teqball player went down 0-2 to Japan’s world No. 7 Yuina Sakamoto in the women’s singles bronze medal match here on Saturday.Despite the straight-set defeat, the 11-12, 11-12 scoreline hardly reflects how close the Mumbai player came to claiming the bronze. With a…
Writer Nasera Sharma at her residence For many literature lovers, Nasera Sharma is the author of the Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel, ‘Parijat’. But as a freelance journalist and researcher, she has also interviewed top West Asian leaders.In the early 1980s, Iran was uncertain. The monarchy was gone; clerics had taken over. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was…
Former JNU student activist Umar Khalid BENGALURU: National Law School of India University’s student body Law and Society Committee has scrapped a planned screening of a documentary on jailed former JNU student activist Umar Khalid after ABVP opposition and warnings that it could trigger FIRs against students and faculty.The committee planned to screen filmmaker Lalit…
Hyderabad: More than one in four young people aged 15-29 in Telangana were classified as NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training), taking the state’s NEET rate to 26.2%, compared with the national average of 25%. The figures are from the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), released by the ministry of statistics and programme…
Bronze-winged jacana with two chicks at Paddapukur in Rabindra Sarobar Kolkata: Bird conservationists and enthusiasts have raised the alarm over an unseasonal drive to clean Paddapukur, a lotus pond within the Rabindra Sarobar grounds, saying it will destroy the nesting sites of Bronze-winged Jacanas and White-breasted Waterhens. The monsoon is the breeding season for both…
Mapusa: A 55-year-old businessman from Tamil Nadu died of a heart attack in a hotel room at Nagoa, Arpora, police said on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Muruganandam Shanmugam, a resident of Nagapattinam.According to Anjuna police, the incident came to light on Sept 19 around 5am, when the police control room received a…
Gorakhpur: Purvanchal’s traditional cuisine is set to gain a wider audience as signature dishes from the Gorakhpur division will be showcased at the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show (UPITS) 2026, scheduled from Sep 25 to 29 at the India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida.Under state govt’s One District One Cuisine (ODOC) initiative, selected…
Ahmedabad: AMC has spent more than Rs 2,000 crore over the past five years on laying new stormwater and drainage lines and desilting the old ones, but the number of flood-prone spots in the city continues to rise.During the 2025 monsoon, AMC identified 147 flood-prone spots across Ahmedabad. Before this year’s monsoon, AMC claimed to…
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chandigarh zonal unit, had intercepted a Hyundai Verna near the Khuda Lahora bridge on Dec 18, 2018, as contraband was being smuggled across the Himachal Pradesh-Chandigarh border Chandigarh: A special NDPS court in Chandigarh has convicted three Himachal Pradesh residents in a 2018 inter-state drug trafficking case involving the seizure…
Pune: A 49-year-old assistant police sub-inspector posted at Uruli Kanchan police station died after an unidentified vehicle knocked him down while he was crossing the Pune-Solapur highway in Uruli Kanchan around 12.30am on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Ganesh Ratan Dabhade, a resident of Saswad in Purandar taluka. He was posted at Uruli Kanchan police…
