BHOPAL: Three sisters, aged between 6 and 9 years, drowned in a shallow water pit in the backyard of their house while immersing an ‘idol’ they had made on Nag Panchami in Rewa district on Friday. Sonali, 9, Tanvi, 7, and Jahnvi, 6, daughters of Rajkumar Rajak, had not told their parents that they were…
BHOPAL: Three sisters, aged between 6 and 9 years, drowned in a shallow water pit in the backyard of their house while immersing an ‘idol’ they had made on Nag Panchami in Rewa district on Friday. Sonali, 9, Tanvi, 7, and Jahnvi, 6, daughters of Rajkumar Rajak, had not told their parents that they were…
NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Saturday said govt has decided to advance the target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol from 2030 to 2025-26, appealing to sugar cooperatives to help achieve the target by ensuring that all sugar mills produce ethanol in two years, setting up multi-dimensional biofuels production plants…
MEERUT: The recent arrest of a suspected serial killer by Bareilly police has come under intense scrutiny after people noticed a striking similarity between a previously released sketch of the accused man and his latest photograph. The eerie likeness — down to matching shirt patterns, fabric creases, and facial shadows — has sparked widespread scepticism…
DINDIGUL: Two tourists from Trichy died of suspected asphyxiation in a Kodaikanal hotel room on Saturday after they cooked barbeque chicken on a charcoal stove and left it burning overnight.Police identified the deceased as Anand Prabhu and Jeyakannan. They came to Kodaikanal with two other friends, Sivasankar and Sivaraj, and were staying in a lodge…
BEGUSARAI: A couple and their 10-year-old daughter were murdered in their sleep by unidentified assailants who broke into their residence in Thatha-Rashidpur village of Bihar’s Begusarai district early Saturday. The couple’s five-year-old son was grievously injured in the attack.After killing the victims, the murderers went on to pour acid on their bodies.Sanjivan Singh (45), his…
NEW DELHI: Amid opposition parties demanding enhanced central assistance for Kerala to help rebuild and rehabilitate Wayanad, govt sources said the state was already sitting on a corpus of Rs 540 crore in disaster funds — Rs 395 crore balance in its disaster response fund and Rs 145 crore released by Centre on July 31,…
NEW DELHI: Govt and RBI on Saturday asked banks to sharpen focus on deposit mobilisation, by deploying innovative tools and tackling competition from other investment products, while refusing to step in with policy interventions. RBI has expressed concern over lending growth being faster than the rise in deposits for several months and finance minister Nirmala…
NEW DELHI: The delay in discharge of Indian nationals serving in Russian Army is threatening to cause discord in Moscow-New Delhi ties with Russian embassy here saying in an official statement issued Saturday that these men “voluntarily contracted” for military service in Russia, even as it committed to working for their early release.The statement followed…
PILIBHIT: Wildlife experts have suggested local communities in close proximity to tiger reserves in Uttar Pradesh should be partners in wildlife conservation programmes to mitigate man-wildlife conflicts. Mudit Gupta, WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature), head of Terai Arc Landscape (TAL), which stretches 30,000 sqkm across Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, presented this view.After attending…
