UK pop band Blue, comprising Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe, Duncan James and Antony Costa, enthralled music lovers on Saturday with a captivating performance at the Sangai Music Festival in Manipur. Playing to a packed audience, the boy band had fans on their feet as they delivered some of their most beloved hits, including their chart-topping…
Visakhapatnam: Even as the Bhogapuram greenfield international airport nears completion, efforts to develop alternative routes and flyovers to ease the mounting congestion on the national highway and the beachfront road have made little progress. With more than 92 per cent of construction works reportedly completed, a test flight is expected in January 2026, and the…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll rolls, two Booth Level Officers (BLOs) died in Uttar Pradesh. While 46-year-old Sarvesh Singh hanged himself in Moradabad’s Baheri village, a woman BLO named Shobharani died of cardiac arrest in Bijnor.According to news agency PTI, Sarvesh Singh confessed to feeling suffocated and said there…
Manchester United players (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP) Joshua Zirkzee scored his first Premier League goal in nearly a year, while Mason Mount secured the winning goal as Manchester United defeated Crystal Palace 2-1 on Sunday.Ruben Amorim’s team initially fell behind when Jean-Philippe Mateta scored a first-half penalty at Selhurst Park. However, Zirkzee and Mount’s second-half…
India B (Manipur) clinched a spectacular victory over Colombia with a score of 8–5 in a thrilling final to lift the coveted title at the 15th Manipur Polo International Tournament. The championship match, held on Saturday at the Imphal Polo Ground, drew the curtains over the week-long sporting spectacle. The tournament, organised by the Manipur…
Chennai: Self-financing medical colleges in the state have been granted a total of 418 additional postgraduate seats in courses including anaesthesiology, general medicine, paediatrics, general surgery, dermatology, radio-diagnosis, orthopaedics, and ENT by the national medical commission (NMC), amidst the ongoing admission sessions. With this, the PG seats in private institutions will increase to nearly 1,500….
The Indian crisis of civic sense. NEW DELHI: Across India, behaviours such as littering, spitting, flouting queues, honking needlessly, encroaching on public spaces, and damaging shared property have become so routine that they often pass without notice.They are not merely behavioural glitches; they are embedded, inherited patterns. The problem is not just policy, enforcement, or…
If India’s currency could speak, 2025 would probably be the year it asked for a vacation. A dollar that once cost less than four rupees at independence now buys more than 89, and is flirting with the dreaded 90 mark.“When the rupee slides it does affect the broader economy,” said Economist Arun Kumar, retired professor…
British Airways is preparing to expand its India operations to tap into the country’s fast-growing aviation market and rising outbound travel demand, a senior airline executive said, citing the country’s “incredible potential”.The carrier, which has been flying to India for more than a century, currently operates 56 weekly flights from Indian cities to London —…
Ontario’s public colleges and universities are facing escalating financial pressure as declining international enrolments continue to erode institutional budgets. The provincial government has confirmed that it is conducting a comprehensive review of how it funds higher education, even as colleges warn of mounting deficits, program suspensions and job losses. The situation, as reported by Global…
