Lucknow: The ancestral house of hockey legend and Padma Shri awardee Mohammad Shahid — once a landmark for budding players — is on the verge of demolition to make way for a road widening and beautification project in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Built in 1920, the house in which the ‘master…
Kangana Ranaut recently revealed a deeply personal chapter from her family’s past, the loss of her elder brother just days after his birth. She said her mother’s firstborn, a baby boy, passed away around ten days after being born in a hospital. “Till now, no one knows why that child did not survive,” Kangana shared…
KOLKATA: Twenty-two-year-old Malda migrant labourer Amir Sheikh — who was pushed into Bangladesh on June 25 — came back to India on Wednesday, his reappearance as mysterious as his disappearance from the country of his birth.A BSF explanation in the Calcutta high court a couple of hours after Amir’s return through the Basirhat border only…
NEW DELHI: In a first-of-its-kind expedition, India sent an aquanaut 5,002m deep into the ocean as part of the country’s Deep Ocean Mission, which involves development of crewed and uncrewed submersibles and deep-sea mining technologies, aimed at harnessing resources from the Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf.As part of Indo-French research collaborations, two Indian aquanauts…
NEW DELHI: Three CRPF personnel who displayed exemplary courage and resilience during encounters with terrorists in J&K shall receive Shaurya Chakra. Two other police personnel named for Shaurya Chakra this Independence Day eve are anti-Naxal encounter specialists of Chhattisgarh Police – inspectors Laxman Kewat and Rameshwar Prasad Deshmukh.On Thursday, home ministry also announced 1,090 police…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party on Thursday expelled rebel MLA Pooja Pal hours after she showered praise on chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh assembly during a marathon discussion on Vision-2047.In her speech, Pooja, who had earlier voted against the party line in the 2024 Rajya Sabha election, lauded the CM for zero tolerance against crime…
The upcoming episode of Cooku with Comali Season 6 is all set to take viewers on a cinematic ride, as contestant and actor Raju Jeyamohan makes a grand surprise entry dressed as Rajinikanth’s iconic Padayappa character.Clad in a traditional kurta-pyjama, sporting the signature moustache and exuding rustic charm, Raju’s transformation instantly won cheers from the…
Lucknow: The state govt has established centres of excellence in Kushinagar and Hapur to produce good quality potato seeds, or tubers, using an advanced technology called aeroponics.Aeroponics is a soil-less farming method where the roots of potato plants remain suspended in the air after breeder seeds sown in seedling trays germinate. The timely spray of…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission Thursday said EPIC number and Aadhaar number were already pre-filled or sought from the elector in the enumeration form required to be filled and submitted by them as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar.While the elector’s name, EPIC number, address, polling booth name and number, assembly or Parliamentary…
JIND: His victory sealed by the first-ever recount of an EVM result in the Supreme Court, Mohit Kumar Thursday took oath as sarpanch of Buvana Lakhu village, 25km from Panipat district HQ in Haryana.In the 2022 panchayat polls, Kuldeep Singh was declared winner and served as sarpanch for 33 months. In the SC-ordered recount, the…
