Lucknow: Signalling an early start to its campaign for UP Assembly elections, BJP ally Rashtriya Lok Dal has launched a two-pronged strategy of organisational restructuring and grassroots mobilisation in its stronghold of western Uttar Pradesh. Days after the party’s national executive resolved to overhaul its UP organisational structure, the RLD has lined up major public…
Builing in mansarovar area in Jaipur, Rajasthan building in Jaipur. Jaipur: After high-rise complexes, Rajasthan’s cities may soon see skyscrapers rivalling Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi.Following a regulation of the central govt notified in January 2026, the state govt has issued an order allowing building heights to extend without a fixed cap.Speaking to TOI, a senior…
NEW DELHI: The Indian govt has strongly rejected the reference to J&K in an EU-Pakistan joint statement, issued during EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas’s visit to Islamabad this week, saying those who have no locus standi on such matters should desist from making any comment on them.According to the joint statement, Pakistan and the…
Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of attempted murder.Actor Nick Pasqual, who has appeared on projects such as ‘How I Met Your Mother’, ‘Rebel Moon’, and ‘The World Without You’, has officially been found guilty of attempted murder. After he was arrested for stabbing his ex-girlfriend, makeup artist Allie Shehorn, the court recently sentenced him…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s record-shattering IPL 2026 campaign has sparked one of Indian cricket’s biggest selection debates. The 15-year-old batting sensation from Bihar’s Samastipur amassed 776 runs in 16 matches at a staggering strike rate of 237.31, while smashing a record 72 sixes during the season.The extraordinary run has prompted…
This may feel like a grey-skied day, the sort where nothing seems to move your way at first. The Moon is unsettled for you, and that can bring low mood, extra expenses, and disappointing responses from different sides. If plans don’t work neatly, don’t take it as a final verdict on your efforts.Patience is your…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor T S Sandhu has approved the reconstitution and notification of the 14-member Delhi Ridge Management Board (DRMB), as well as the constitution of a five-member standing committee under DRMB’s authority to handle rapid-response environmental interventions.However, experts have raised concerns over the composition of the new board, noting it includes senior officials…
‘Drug lab’ busted in Gujarat by Mumbai police, recovering 20kg mephedrone worth Rs 74 crore Mumbai: A 26-year-old app cab driver who allegedly moonlighted as a drug supplier has led Mumbai police to a Gujarat-based ‘drug lab’ from where she sourced narcotics.Police arrested the driver, Muskaan Khan, and habitual narco-offender and alleged manufacturer Wajiul Kamal…
Techie who killed parents is mentally sound, say police BENGALURU: Was he schizophrenic and did the illness lead him to stab his parents to death? This question haunted everyone when police arrested 33-year-old software engineer Rohan Chandra on charges of stabbing his parents — Naveen Chandra Bhat, a retired Navy captain, and Shyamala Bhat —…
TNNChennai: A day after CM C Joseph Vijay taunted AIADMK as a spent force, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami launched a caustic attack on the questioning the TVK for alleged breakdown of law and order.Referring to reports that a 23 year old youth from Chennai’s Tondiarpet, named Vishnu, was beaten to death for opposing…
