A drone video showing potholes on the Vashishti bridge in Chiplun, part of the Mumbai-Goa highway, has gone viral on social media. The footage, which users compared to the surface of the moon, highlights the poor state of the bridge where crater-like potholes stretch across the road. Heavy trucks are seen parked near the divider,…
KOLKATA: A four-year-old boy headed to Malaysia for a holiday with his family on Aug 12 was attacked by a Customs dog at Kolkata airport resulting in deep scratches on his back and leading to his hospitalisation. The family had to scuttle its trip and on Aug 19 lodged an FIR with NSCBI airport police…
VADODARA: Amid simmering anger over the recent murder of a Class 10 student in Ahmedabad, a Class 8 boy was stabbed by a classmate in a primary school in Balasinor town of Mahisagar district on Thursday.The victim sustained injuries on his waist, abdomen, and shoulder, but they were not life-threatening, police said. Preliminary inquiry revealed…
PM Modi, Donald Trump TOI correspondent from Washington: Claiming that “the road to peace (on the Russia-Ukraine front) runs through India, the Trump White House on Thursday doubled down on tariffing and sanctioning New Delhi, accusing it of fueling the conflict. In remarks to reporters, the US President’s trade counsellor, Peter Navarro, said he doesn’t…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed surprise at the lack of political parties’ involvement in correcting names of voters deleted during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. “We will allow online submission of claims of deleted voters with Aadhaar card or any other acceptable documents for Bihar SIR,” the…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday blamed disruptions in Parliament on “insecurities” of a few politicians who fear getting outshone by younger MPs and are organising protests to nip the threat to their own position. At the customary informal meeting of members of different parties in LS Speaker Om Birla’s office after the House…
LUCKNOW: Former UP CM Kalyan Singh’s enduring legacy was evident when top BJP members, including CM Yogi Adityanath and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, descended on his native place in Aligarh to pay tributes to him on his fourth death anniversary on Thursday. Kalyan is credited with taking BJP beyond the moorings of primarily an upper…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hit out at the Opposition during a rally in Gaya, questioning how chief ministers can continue in office even after being jailed while government employees face suspension if imprisoned for more than 50 hours. “If a government employee is imprisoned for 50 hours, then he loses his…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s latest ruling on the treatment of stray dogs has been welcomed as a step forward by animal rights activist and BJP leader Maneka Gandhi, who described it as a “scientific judgement.” The court on Friday modified its earlier order barring the release of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR and directed that…
Photo/Agencies NEW DELHI The first uncrewed mission of the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme is ready to launch with a robot and the liftoff is expected in December, said Isro chairman V Narayanan here on Thursday.“The first uncrewed mission, G1, is going to lift off by this year’s end, maybe close to December. And in that,…
