GURGAON: A 17-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide by jumping from the 18th floor of a highrise in Sector 108 early on Friday. The incident occurred in Sobha City around 2am, barely an hour after his mother had gone off to sleep. The boy — a Class 12 student at Delhi Public School, RK Puram…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan (File Photo) KOCHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday declared in the state assembly that Kerala is now free of extreme poverty. The announcement was made during a special session of the assembly held to mark Kerala ‘Piravi’, the state’s formation day. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition rejected…
Govt incentivised Aarrya’s scheme till it went bad MUMBAI: Launched as a private initiative in 2022, the Swachhta Monitor programme selected schoolchildren across Maharashtra as “cleanliness monitors”, tasked with calling out acts of uncleanliness in their surroundings. The initiative, led by Apsara Media Entertainment and Rohit Aaryya, who orchestrated the Powai hostage crisis, received official…
NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal has written to Union home minister Amit Shah urging that the national capital be renamed “Indraprastha,” citing the city’s connection to India’s ancient heritage. He also suggested renaming the Old Delhi Railway Station as “Indraprastha Junction” and the Indira Gandhi International Airport as “Indraprastha Airport.” Amit Shah Takes…
Bankim Brahmbhatt (Industry Chronicle) American investment giant BlackRock has accused Bankim Brahmbhatt, the Indian-origin CEO of US-based telecom companies Broadband Telecom and Bridgevoice, of multi-million-dollar fraud, The Wall Street Journal reported. Lenders, including HPS Investment Partners – the private credit arm of BlackRock – have accused Brahmbhatt’s firms of fabricating accounts receivable that were used…
BHUBANESWAR: A young woman was allegedly gang-raped by three miscreants behind a college campus in Odisha’s Subarnapur district on Friday night. Acting on the victim’s complaint, police have detained two suspects and launched an investigation into the incident.According to police, the victim, who works at an automobile service centre, was returning home after work when…
HYDERABAD: Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad received a bomb threat email early Saturday morning, leading authorities to divert an IndiGo flight. The threat email, received at 5.25am on November 1, 2025, claimed LTTE-ISI operatives were planning a major blast involving nerve gas and IEDs.The email was sent to the airport’s customer support from an…
Siddaramaiah (File – agencies) NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday accused the Centre of neglecting Kannada and imposing Hindi, while calling upon people of the state to oppose those who are “anti-Kannada.”“The federal government is meting out step-motherly treatment to Karnataka,” Siddaramaiah said during his address on the occasion of the state foundation…
Scheduling and rostering lapses at Air India continue five months after being reprimanded by the regulator on this issue. In the latest instance, a co-pilot and a senior captain have been taken off flying duty after the airline found they operated a flight each last month with a lapsed English Language Proficiency (ELP) licence in…
VIJAYAWADA: At least nine devotees, including eight women and one boy, were killed, and more than 25 others suffered injuries in a stampede that broke out on Saturday morning at the Venkateswara Swamy Temple, a private temple, in Kasibugga of Palasa mandal in Srikakulam district.Saturdays usually see a rush of over 3,000 devotees at the…
