NAVI MUMBAI: Amid Diwali celebrations, a major fire broke out in a 12-storey upscale society in Vashi a little after Monday midnight, claiming the lives of an 84-year-old bedridden woman and a three member family two floors above.Ten other residents of the top three floors of Raheja Residency in M G Complex, Sector 14, Vashi,…
NEW DELHI: Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed on Wednesday stoked controversy after she questioned the non-selection of Sarfaraz Khan for India’s recent cricket assignments. She asked whether Khan was not selected in the India A cricket squad “because of his surname”, drawing an angry attack from BJP which accused Mohamed and her party of seeking to…
Ayodhya: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath celebrated Diwali with the Nishad community in Ayodhya and distributed sweets, gifts, and sparklers to children while visiting the slums and offered baskets of sweets and fruits to the elderly and women.Amid chants of Jai Shri Ram and Bharat Mata ki Jai, Yogi said that lighting a lamp in every…
Yale University spent $370,000 on lobbying the federal government in the third quarter of 2025, its highest quarterly total this year, according to disclosures filed Monday. The figure marks an increase from the $320,000 reported in the second quarter and brings the university’s total lobbying expenditures for the year to $890,000, Yale Daily News reports….
Lucknow: Third-year BTech student in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow University, Shyam Narayan Gupta, brought pride to the university by securing third place in Altair Wireless Propagation Modeling Contest at national level. The competition saw participation from over 350 students across India, showcasing innovative ideas in wireless…
NEW DELHI: Representatives from Ladakh on Wednesday resumed dialogue with the Centre after a five-month hiatus, reiterating their general demands like statehood, Sixth Schedule status, and constitutional safeguards for their land, culture and language besides seeking the release of detainees of Sept 24 violence, including activist Sonam Wangchuk, reports Bharti Jain.Sources in the Centre said…
Lucknow: The bursting of firecrackers during Diwali celebrations engulfed Lucknow in toxic air. During the live monitoring of air pollution levels, the PM 2.5 and PM 10 concentrations in the city’s air reached the hazardous level of 500 micrograms per cubic meter.The city’s air quality deteriorated from ‘moderate’ to ‘severe’ during Diwali night and post-Diwali…
NEW DELHI: A five-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped, hit with bricks and then stabbed to death in Narela on Tuesday, hours after he went missing from outside his home. The accused, who worked as a driver for the boy’s transporter father, planned the murder to take revenge, said police. He is absconding.The Narela Industrial Area…
The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions on two biggest Russian oil companies in a bid to pressurize Moscow to “immediately agree to ceasefire“. The move after US President Donald Trump expressed that his talks with Russian counterpart Putin remained futile over Ukraine war.“Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate…
Ayodhya: Samajwadi Party criticized the sweeping of illuminated lamps by sanitation workers soon after Deepotsav in Ayodhya and termed it as an insult to the religious sentiments of Hindus.The reaction came after videos purportedly showing sanitation workers of the Ayodhya Municipal Corporation pushing and extinguishing lamps with brooms and sweeping them after Deepotsav went viral…
