Pune: The collective storage of four key dams – Khadakwasla, Panshet, Varasgaon and Temghar – slipped by 1 TMC to 28.2 TMC from 29.15 TMC.Among the four dams, Khadakwasla dam witnessed the highest reduction, from 100% to 54% storage capacity and lost 1 TMC. The collective storage now stands at 96.8%. The reason behind such…
Lucknow: A seven-year-old boy suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome, severe pneumonia and septic shock was discharged on Friday after spending 22 days in the Trauma Critical Care Unit at King Georges Medical University, where he required mechanical ventilation for 14 days.Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare condition where your immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nerves.The child…
Five BSF jawans injured after vehicle overturns on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway JAMMU: Five BSF officials were injured after their truck, headed to Jammu from Srinagar, overturned on National Highway-44 near Chamba Seri in J&K’s Ramban district Saturday. The driver sustained critical injuries, a source said.In another accident, a man died and five other occupants of…
Kunal Khemu‘s ‘VIBE’ recorded an increase in its box office earnings on Saturday, September 19. The action thriller comedy earned Rs 2.65 cr in India net on Day 2, according to Sacnilk. The movie was screened across 2,979 shows on its first Saturday. The latest collection marks a 55.9% rise over the Rs 1.70 cr…
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…
