A UK lawyer and environmental campaigner who spent days helping volunteers clean a neglected river is now facing the possibility of prosecution. Paul Powlesland, founder of the River Roding Trust, led a 10-day effort to remove more than 200 bags of rubbish, weeds and silt from Alders Brook, a tributary of the River Roding in…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: In the annals of FBI history, J. Edgar Hoover handed out souvenir fingerprint cards. Robert Mueller handed out stern lectures. James Comey handed out lengthy moral reflections.Under Indian-American Kash Patel, whose customary greeting to abstemious fellow Gujaratis is “Jai Shree Krishna!”, the bureau has apparently entered a Bourbon Rra. Washington is…
Before his conviction in the 2005 Naroda murder case, Hemant Nagindas Modi had reportedly studied law and actively participated in amateur theatre. AHMEDABAD: Long before police tracked him down as a parole jumper, Hemant Nagindas Modi, 53, had already mastered the art of becoming someone else.Years before entering films and television, Modi was known in…
A Kodagu resident, IT employee Hosoklu Roshan Balakrishna, was tragically killed by lightning while inspecting paddy fields near Mysuru MADIKERI: A resident of Kodagu who went to the paddy fields was killed after being struck by lightning in Yelwala near Mysuru on Tuesday. The victim, Hosoklu Roshan Balakrishna, was the son of late Hosoklu Balakrishna…
NEW DELHI: A month after the Union cabinet approved the country’s climate action goals, called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), for 2031-35 period, India has formally submitted its pledges to the UN climate body underlining important conditions noting that the developing countries’ commitments “cannot be fulfilled” without adequate support in terms of “finance” and “technology transfer”.India…
Keiron Pollard surpasses legend Chris Gayle (Image: X) Kieron Pollard etched his name deeper into cricket folklore by becoming the highest run-scorer in T20 cricket history, surpassing fellow West Indies legend Chris Gayle during a remarkable innings for MI New York in the 2026 Major League Cricket season.The former West Indies captain achieved the milestone…
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s upgraded child health screening programme, RBSK 2.0, is facing criticism from a national collective of doctors with disabilities, who say it expands coverage but fails to address disability as a core priority—potentially leaving millions of children out of early diagnosis and care.In a representation to the Union health ministry, Doctors with…
A Singapore court has sentenced a 33-year-old Indian-origin man to 19 months in jail for molesting his friend’s minor sister more than a decade ago.Melvinder Singh Gurmit Singh was convicted on two counts of molestation. The offences took place when the victim was between seven and nine years old, while Singh was aged 19 to…
An 80-year-old retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer lost his life while his son had to be hospitalised after a fire broke out following an AC blast on the ground floor of their three-storey residence in south Delhi’s Hauz Khas Enclave late on Wednesday night. NEW DELHI: An 80-year-old retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer…
TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee appears before ED in Bengal school jobs scam probe KOLKATA: TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee reached the Enforcement Directorate‘s CGO Complex office in Kolkata around 11 am on Monday in response to a summons issued in connection with the money laundering probe into the alleged school jobs scam, officials said.Investigators are set to…