Image credit: Santosh Gupta NEW DELHI: Maharashtra MLA from NCP (SP) rode a horse straight into the municipal corporation headquarters as a mark of protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to the people to use less fuel amid the Middle East crisis.MLA Jitendra Awhad along with several leaders and workers of the party staged…
Australia are prepared to take a chance on Ellyse Perry if needed for Sunday’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final at Lord’s, with head coach Shelley Nitschke saying the all-rounder could play even if she is not fully fit.Perry retired hurt during Australia’s semi-final win over West Indies at The Oval after feeling what the…
NEW DELHI: In another big step in missile development, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday conducted a successful flight-test of Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. All the test objectives were fully met, as per the data captured by various tracking instruments…
Reports surrounding Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumored summer wedding have sparked fresh speculation about Swift’s friendship with Blake Lively. Sources claim Swift wants distance from the ongoing legal battle involving Lively and Justin Baldoni before wedding celebrations begin. Fans also noticed Lively’s absence from reported bachelorette party plans, fueling rumors that the once close…
Africa’s top public health agency has declared an Ebola outbreak in the eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 246 cases and 80 deaths reported so far, mainly in the gold-mining towns of Mongwalu and Rwampara.The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said preliminary laboratory tests conducted at…
Elon Musk has never been shy about stretching timelines or expectations, but his latest comment about SpaceX lands on a scale that makes even the most optimistic market forecasts look restrained. Elon Musk’s writing on X in response to a Morgan Stanley projection, he suggested the company could be pulling in around a trillion dollars…
Once, he scored just 51 marks in Maths. Today, he is the founder of India’s largest private rocket factory and the man behind the country’s first privately built rocket launched into space.Pawan Kumar Chandana was born in 1991 in Hyderabad, Telangana. He grew up in a middle-class family with a natural curiosity for machines, but…
Marking its first international acquisition, India’s premier defence shipyard Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) has secured a 51% controlling stake in Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) for approximately Rs 249.5 crore ($26.8 million). The Mumbai-based defence public sector undertaking announced in a statement on April 9 that the deal brings Sri Lanka’s largest shipyard under its…
A cyber group linked to the Iranian government has targeted thousands of American service members and other US government officials in cyberattacks over recent months.The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, reported that the Handala Hack Team on Tuesday published the names and other personal details of 2,379 US Marines stationed in the Persian Gulf…
Pingla (West Midnapore): Ballots vanish in SIR. Brushes rise in protest. Scrolls speak before assembly polls. In Bengal’s patachitra heart, democracy is being painted frame by frame – each stroke carrying a question, each refrain demanding an answer.Patachitra artists – custodians of a centuries-old storytelling tradition rooted in Ramayana and Mahabharata – are turning their…