AJMER : A woman killed her 3-year-old daughter by throwing her into the Ana Sagar Lake here, police said Wednesday. The woman had left her husband, who lives in Varanasi, to be in a live-in relationship with another man who had moved from Varanasi to Ajmer to work in a restaurant. Police have arrested the…
Sachin Yadav (Image credit: Athletics Federation of India) NEW DELHI: Indian javelin thrower Sachin Yadav produced a breakthrough performance at the World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo on Thursday, finishing fourth in the men’s javelin final with a personal best throw of 86.27 metres. The 25-year-old from Khekra, Uttar Pradesh outperformed renowned Asian rivals Neeraj…
NEW DELHI: The SC agreed to hear on Friday a petition challenging the invitation extended to author and Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq as chief guest for the inauguration of the Mysuru Dasara festival on the ground that a non-Hindu cannot perform the ‘agamic puja’ in Chamundeshwari temple’s sanctum sanctorum to mark commencement of festivities.Advocate…
NEW DELHI: Seven natural heritage sites ranging from the Deccan Traps to Meghalayan Age Caves from India have been added to Unesco’s tentative list of world heritage sites. With this inclusion, India now has a total of 69 sites under consideration by Unesco, comprising 49 cultural, 17 natural, and three mixed heritage properties.“As per Unesco’s…
USCIS or the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a new version of the naturalization civics test that will take effect in 2025. In a press release, the immigration authority said it has posted a Federal Register notice announcing implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test. The new test is part of the process…
On Sept 1, two patients — a threemonth-old baby and a 52-year-old woman — died within hours of each other at Kozhikode Govt Medical College. Doctors confirmed that both were being treated for primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), an infection caused by the free-living parasite Naegleria fowleri.By mid-Sept, the toll had risen to 19, with 69…
A grisly crime has come to light on the outskirts of Ludhiana, where a 71-year-old NRI, Rupinder Kaur was bludgeoned to death. CHANDIGARH: A grisly crime has come to light on the outskirts of Ludhiana, where a 71-year-old NRI, Rupinder Kaur, who had travelled from the US to marry her would-be groom, was allegedly bludgeoned…
NEW DELHI: Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act that bans all forms of online money games will be implemented from Oct 1, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.The Act, passed by Parliament last month, bars all forms of online money games while promoting e-sports and other online games. “The rules will be promulgated…
The regulator had recommended inspection of the locking mechanism to ensure the fuel switches don’t accidentally move from ‘run’ to ‘cut off’ position.Pushkaraj Sabharwal, father of Capt Sumeet Sabharwal who died in the accident, has sought a formal investigation. He criticised the preliminary report, calling it “deficient, diversionary, and discrepant” for insinuating the fault lies…
NEW DELHI: SC quashed anticipatory bail granted to former IAS officers Anil Tuteja and Alok Shukla and allowed ED to take them in its custody for four weeks in the Nagrik Apurti Nigam ‘scam’ in Chhattisgarh.“We have perused the impugned orders and materials available on record. Suffice it is to state that it is not…
