Jagatsinghpur worker returns from conflict-torn Sudan BHUBANESWAR: When Jagatsinghpur native Adarsh Behera received a job offer in 2022 from a plastic manufacturing company in Sudan, he hoped to make life better for his seven-member family that struggled to make ends meet through farming. However, his ordeal began in April 2023 when civil war broke out…
Fashion designer Manish Malhotra set the tone for the festive season as he hosted a grand pre-Diwali celebration at his Mumbai residence on Sunday evening. The star-studded night saw some of Bollywood’s biggest names arriving in their festive best — from Kareena Kapoor Khan and Hema Malini to Tiger Shroff and Genelia D’Souza.Kareena Kapoor turned…
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone star in a new tourism ad for Abu Dhabi, showcasing playful banter and romantic role-play. The couple recently unveiled their daughter Dua’s face on Diwali. Both actors have upcoming projects, with Deepika reuniting with Shah Rukh Khan for ‘King’ and Ranveer appearing in ‘Dhurandhar’ and ‘Don 3’. Each time Ranveer…
Lucknow: Science can tell us what happens and how it works, but it cannot answer why things matter. This idea set the theme for the session “Clash of Ideals: Myth and Modernity” at the Koshala Literature Festival.Speaker Sharad Bindal said science, history, and mythology each play a different role: science explains facts, history keeps records,…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday claimed that Congress councillor Phuntsog Stanzin Tsepag of inciting violence during the recent protest in Ladakh, but activist Sonam Wangchuk denied.In a post on X, BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya asked whether Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wanted this kind of unrest in Ladakh.“This man rioting in…
NEW DELHI: In a move to ensure quality project execution and reduce delays, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has tightened norms to check “unathorised” subcontracting of works by main highway builders. It has said that any “unauthorised subcontracting and subcontracting beyond permissible limits will be classified as ‘undesirable practice’, thereby attracting penalties on par…
In Jackson, Wyoming, the debate over federal oversight and local control of education took center stage on Thursday, as U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited a local school, signaling a renewed push to return authority over K-12 education to the states. Her tour, part of a nationwide 50-state initiative dubbed the “Returning Education to…
Goldman Sachs upgraded Maruti Suzuki to buy with the target price raised to Rs 18,900. Analysts said the stock price upgrade was to factor in a potential pickup in market for entry level cars post GST cuts and price changes, resumption of new model launches after a gap of 2.5 years with Victoris SUV and…
Both Kusum Sinha, 63, and Priya Sehgal, 34, lived in Rohini NEW DELHI: A man killed his wife and mother-in-law with a pair of scissors in northwest Delhi’s KN Katju Marg area following a heated argument over a birthday gift for their son. The accused, Yogesh Sehgal, was later arrested in Rohini, where he was…
