Few household pests are as unwelcome or as hard to get rid of completely as cockroaches. They turn up in kitchens, bathrooms, and storage spaces across Indian homes, drawn in by the promise of food, warmth, and moisture, and once they settle in, clearing them out can feel like an uphill battle. Many people would…
File photo: Opposition & ruling party MPs staged counter-protests & raised slogans against each other outside Parliament on Thursday (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Congress-led opposition is set to keep up the pressure on the government in Parliament over the alleged police brutality against students protesting the NEET-UG paper leak, with demands for action…
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu visited Nandamuri Balakrishna at the Hyderabad Hospital on Sunday. The Tollywood veteran is currently recovering after undergoing knee surgery following an injury he suffered during the shooting of his upcoming film, ‘NBK111’ directed by Gopichand Malineni. The CM met the actor, spoke with the director and enquired about…
A student protest rally turned violent in Kolkata on Friday (PTI) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday alleged that the violence during a protest rally in Kolkata over the NEET question paper leak was orchestrated by “Islamic fundamentalists,” claiming they may have been supported by “foreign forces.“Adhikari made the remarks while…
SILCHAR: At least four workers were killed and several others injured in a massive explosion, suspected to have been triggered by a gas cylinder blast, at a rod manufacturing unit in Assam‘s Cachar district on Sunday.The blast occurred at around 11.30 am at the Kade Global Infrastructure LLP in Pangram under the Udharband police station…
Floodwaters inundate several parts of Assam, affecting lakhs of residents across multiple districts. (ANI images) NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the death toll from this year’s floods has risen to 66 even as the flood situation showed signs of improvement across the state with water levels receding in several…
The Kargil War of 1999 was not won in a single battle. It was secured through a series of hard-fought victories across some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain, where Indian soldiers climbed near-vertical cliffs under enemy fire at altitudes exceeding 16,000 feet. Each captured peak altered the course of the conflict, weakened Pakistan’s defensive…
Brushing off the BJP’s “B-team” tag, Owaisi said he does not want the BJP to continue in power. NEW DELHI: Asaduddin Owaisi, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, expressed apparent willingness to tie up with the INDIA bloc, particularly with Akhilesh Yadav‘s Samajwadi Party, to take on the ruling BJP in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.During…
20-year-old Yashvendra Singh died after his car skidded and plunged into an open drain NEW DELHI: A day after a 20-year-old student died when his car skidded, hit a tree, overturned and plunged into the open Nangal Dewat drain in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, TOI found that the drain, stretching over a kilometre, remained largely…
(Pic courtesy: Instagram/ @the_prabster) High in Ladakh’s Changthang region, where the mountains seem to blur into infinity, there is a tiny village that has become a tourist attraction. But nobody’s coming for the scenic beauty, monasteries, or trekking trails. They’re coming for what happens after the sun sets in this Himalayan village. Enter Hanle, the…