A 31-year-old Army jawan died on Tuesday from injuries suffered in a mishap during a military exercise at Mahajan Field Firing Range in Bikaner.Police said the incident occurred at East Camp of the firing range on Dec 15, when a cannon fired by havildar Chandra Prakash Patel rebounded, causing the soldier to hit against a…
11 Indians die in Georgia. JALANDHAR/PATIALA/BATHINDA: The tragic deaths of 11 Indians due to carbon monoxide poisoning at a restaurant in Gudauri in Georgia have shattered several families across Punjab. As they grapple with the loss, their biggest plea now is to bring back the mortal remains to perform the last rites. For them, closure…
Lieutenant general Igor Kirillov. (ANI) MOSCOW: A top Russian general accused by Ukraine on Monday of being responsible for the use of banned chemical weapons against its troops was assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind since the beginning of the war.Lieutenant general Igor Kirillov (54), who was…
Allahabad High Court Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav. NEW DELHI: A five-judge Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday ticked off Allahabad high court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav for his controversial speech at a VHP event and counselled him to maintain dignity of the constitutional post he holds and exercise caution while delivering…
NEW DELHI: National Test Agency will conduct only competitive entrance tests for admission into educational institutions from next year and won’t hold any recruitment exams, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Tuesday. He also said that education and health ministries are deliberating on whether to conduct the medical entrance exam NEET-UG in pen-and-paper mode or…
BJP and Congress should move beyond debates over Nehru and Savarkar, and focus on growth issues, Uddhav Thackeray said. NAGPUR: In his bid to reclaim the hardline Hindutva turf after being accused of abandoning the party’s core ideology, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday questioned BJP on why the nation’s highest civilian honour,…
Elon Musk seems to be cosying up to one of India’s favourite sports — Cricket. The world’s richest man and Tesla CEO responded to Google CEO Sundar Pichai‘s post on Cricket. A known ardent fan of cricket, Pichai shared a post on Day 4 of the ongoing test series between India and Australia in Brisbane….
A large shipment of Indian eggs, worth at least Rs 15 crore, is currently stranded due to the restrictions, said PV Senthil, an egg exporter from Namakkal. NAMAKKAL: Oman on Tuesday stopped issuing new import permits for Indian table eggs, hitting the poultry industry in Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. The new restriction assumes significance in…
How many of us have made our graduation useful in real life? Yi Fei Chen made a working model of her final graduation project and it took her three months to craft this innovative creation that literally turned her frustration into a life-changing tool – ‘a tear gun’. The Taiwanese artist created this gun while…
Screenshot from the documentary. LONDON: Children maimed by crude bombs used by political activists during election campaigns in West Bengal have appeared in a BBC documentary, “Children of the Bombs”, broadcast on Tuesday which reveals that at least 565 children have been killed, maimed or injured by such bombs in West Bengal since 1996 when…
