Paddy nursery is key to cultivation Pune: Continuous rainfall over the past two days has revived paddy nurseries across Pune district, bringing relief to farmers who had been struggling due to delayed monsoon showers and rising temperatures.Farmers in Bhor, Rajgad, Maval, Mulshi, Khed, Junnar and Ambegaon had prepared dry-land paddy nurseries earlier this month, but…
Surat: In a major drug bust on a key Gujarat rail corridor, the directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) seized 2kg of high-grade cocaine, worth about Rs 10 crore, and arrested a Navi Mumbai man on Friday.The DRI arrested Fazal Saiyed (39), a resident of Navi Mumbai, at Surat railway station after intercepting him on the…
Agartala: The explosion at a flat in Ramnagar, Agartala, has claimed its first life. Shubhrajit Choudhury, who suffered critical injuries in the blast on Thursday, died at Agartala Govt Medical College on Friday despite treatment.CM Manik Saha expressed condolences and ordered an inquiry into the incident. The powerful blast severely damaged the flat and nearby…
Lucknow: As darkness fell over the historic Gufran Maab Imambara on Friday night, thousands of mourners sat silently under the open sky on the ground to attend the century-old Majlis-e-Sham-e-Ghariban, one of Lucknow’s most moving gatherings to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain and his 72 companions in the Battle of Karbala in AD 680….
Jaipur: The ad hoc panel of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) has formed an investigative committee to probe allegations of harassment and molestation leveled by female players against Bharatpur District Cricket Association (DCA) secretary Shatrudhan Tiwari.According to details provided by ad hoc convener Mohit Jaswant Yadav following the association’s annual general meeting held Friday, the…
Drone drug trafficking cases up 100-fold in 5 years (File photo) NEW DELHI: The skies are the new frontiers in India’s war on drugs, as a 100-fold jump in drone trafficking incidents over the last five years has forced security agencies to confront a highly sophisticated, tech-empowered threat. The annual Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) data…
Some things just can’t be taught from a book. You can read every manual ever written on how to ride a bike, run a meeting, or raise a child, and still be hopeless at the actual thing until you’ve watched someone do it and copied them. King Charles once put this in a wonderfully humble…
Mithun Chakraborty and Sridevi ‘lived together as a married couple for three months,’ claims senior journalist (Image credits: Instagram) Rumours about Mithun Chakraborty and Sridevi‘s relationship have persisted for decades, with speculation ranging from a secret marriage to an eventual separation. While neither Mithun nor Sridevi ever publicly confirmed being married, senior entertainment journalist Jyothi…
Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu will lead India’s weightlifting team at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which begins on July 23 in Glasgow.Mirabai, who has won three Commonwealth Games medals — two gold and one silver — will compete in the women’s 48kg category.She will be joined by Bindyarani Devi in the women’s 58kg…
Freeman Dyson (Image: Wikipedia) Ask an adult what killed their love of a subject, and you’ll often hear the same answer. The exams. Something they once found fascinating got flattened into a syllabus, a set of model answers, and a grade out of a hundred. The physicist Freeman Dyson saw the danger in that, and…
