Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Monday questioned the Delhi Police over alleged restrictions on people joining the ongoing protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar over the NEET-UG paper leak fiasco. Targeting the police, he also asked whether Aadhaar cards are also demanded from people…
CHENNAI: Even as parts of Tamil Nadu received intense evening thunderstorms on Sunday, a video showing a towering column of swirling dust in Thoothukudi went viral on social media, with many weather enthusiasts describing it as a “tornado-like” phenomenon.Meteorologists, however, said the event was not a tornado but was likely caused by a strong updraft…
NOIDA: A Gaur City 2 resident suffered a fractured index finger and sustained injuries to her legs and back from an assault by a fellow resident of the township when she was on her way to feed community dogs on Saturday evening.Bhavna Kapoor alleged she was attacked with a wooden stick — the kind security…
New Delhi:The US has formally notified the proposed sale of sustainment support services and related equipment for Apache helicopters and M777A2 Ultra-Light Howitzers for India at an estimated cost of $482.2 million. The Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which administers Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme of the US, issued the arms sales notification in the…
NEW DELHI: A couple from Raigad district in Maharashtra has won a long legal battle after a consumer commission ordered a developer to refund Rs 1.05 crore with interest, after finding that the flat they had booked and paid for in full was secretly sold to another buyer.The complainants had booked a residential flat in…
PATNA: Vijendra Nath Tiwari, elder brother of Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi, was seriously injured after being attacked with an axe in Belsand village of Gopalganj district, police said on Monday.Vijendra was sitting outside his house when some people arrived and suddenly attacked him. Vijendra collapsed on the spot, bleeding heavily. The assailants fled as locals…
Resilience is often described as toughness, but that word misses something important. The children who grow into steady, capable adults are not usually the ones who never fall apart. They are the ones who learn, early and quietly, that hard things can be survived, feelings can be handled, and mistakes do not end the story….
Paris is celebrated for its grand boulevards, elegant cafés and iconic landmarks. Yet beneath the pavements, far below the tourists and traffic, lies a second city that most people never see.The Paris Catacombs form an immense underground network of former limestone quarries stretching for hundreds of kilometres beneath the French capital. Hidden entrances, flooded passages,…
Anagha Rajesh’s decision to shift BioCompute from Bengaluru to San Francisco has sparked a wider debate about India’s ability to nurture breakthrough technologies. While the country produces world-class talent, the founder argues that deep-tech ventures require patient investors and long-term support. Her journey highlights the challenges facing ambitious scientific startups seeking to scale globally. (Representational…
When Saudi Arabia unveiled NEOM in 2017, it promised nothing short of a city from the future. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman presented the mega-project as the centrepiece of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 strategy to reduce dependence on oil. The plans included flying taxis, robot assistants, a 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper known as The Line, a…