KOLKATA/BHUBANESWAR: Tigress Zeenat’s 21-day hide-and-seek with forest officials of three states since straying out of Similipal in Odisha on December 8 came to a close at 3.56pm Sunday when she was tranquillised and captured in a village of Bengal’s Bankura after five failed attempts since Saturday afternoon.Zeenat’s walk on the wild side took her on…
TOI correspondent from London: The search for a 22-year-old student from Kerala’s Kolenchery, missing since Dec 6, has ended in tragedy after a body Scotland police believe to be hers was found in Almond river near Newbridge in Edinburgh.Santra Elizabath Saju, a student at Heriot-Watt University, was last seen inside an Asda store in Livingston,…
JAMMU: Expressing concern over the ongoing shutdown in the holy town of Katra against the proposed ropeway project, J&K’s deputy chief minister, Surinder Choudhary, said the project is ill-advised and, that, development can’t come at the cost of employment.Katra, base camp for the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage in Jammu, remained shut for the fifth consecutive day…
Hyderabad: Despite severe financial constraints, a health scare and his family’s scepticism, 22-year-old Sai Dinesh achieved his dream goal this weekend, when he secured an All India Rank 40 in the CA final examinations held by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. The son of a mason-turned-small-time construction contractor from Hyderabad’s Saidabad area, Dinesh…
The Bigg Boss 18 journey took a dramatic turn as Sara Arfeen Khan was evicted from the house after receiving the least number of votes. Her elimination, influenced by housemates voting against her, marked a pivotal moment in the season, solidifying the top 10 contestants.Sara’s eviction followed a controversial incident in which she aggressively approached…
PANAJI: A recently discovered landslide in Krishna-Godavari basin, reaching between 950m and 1.1km below the ocean surface, could pose a serious risk to underwater structures, Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) said. “The huge landslide can displace a large amount of water and bottom sediments, potentially causing a tsunami,” NIO director Sunil Kumar Singh told…
Mumbai: If all goes as planned and the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifts off at 9:58 pm on Monday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, it will mark a moment of pride for three institutions in MMR: Manastu Space in Turbhe, Amity University on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and MIT-World Peace University in Pune.Manastu…
<p>Ukraine forces release diary of dead North Korean soldier (File photo, AFP)<br></p> A diary reportedly recovered from a deceased North Korean soldier, Pvt. Gyeong Hong Jong, sheds light on the alleged involvement of North Korean troops in Russia’s fight against Ukraine in the Kursk region.Excerpts from Gyeong’s diary were released by the Special Operations Forces…
NEW DELHI: Patna police use mild-lathi charge and water cannon to disperse the BPSC aspirants protesting in Gandhi Maidan, demanding a re-exam to be held for the 70th BPSC prelims. The protesting students in Patna are demanding the cancellation of the Integrated Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination (CCE) 2024 conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission…
BAREILY: Police are now suspecting that the Nov 24 violence in Sambhal was “orchestrated by absconding gangster Shariq Satha“, a native of the western UP town who is allegedly settled in the UAE. This comes after they found “unusual money transfer to account holders in Sambhal and foreign-made cartridges”. Earlier, police had said they had…
