BENGALURU: Isro Tuesday said it closely monitored and captured the signatures of the powerful solar storm triggered by the highly active sunspot region — AR13664 — that impacted Earth in early May 2024, unleashing a series of intense X-class flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) directed towards our planet. The resulting geomagnetic storm was the…
NEW DELHI: A disturbing footage of a man, believed to be a dog walker, repeatedly thrashing a Golden Retriever inside Gurugram apartment’s elevator is going viral on social media. Sharing the CCTV footage on the X, formerly known as Twitter, Vidit Sharma wrote, “Disturbing to see animal cruelty on the rise with little attention from…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed social activist Gautam Navlakha to come out on bail in Elgar Parishad case by lifting the stay on operation of Bombay high court order which had granted bail to him. He has been under house arrest on SC order.SC also directed Navlakha to pay Rs 20 lakh…
NEW DELHI: An Indian personnel serving with the United Nations tragically lost their life in Gaza‘s Rafah area when the vehicle they were traveling in came under attack, marking the “first international” casualty for the organization since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict.The individual, identified as a staff member of the United Nations Department of…
NOIDA: Lifts that malfunction typically plunge, what many shaken people who have been through it have described as “free fall”.This Sunday, a snag made an elevator at a city condominium do the opposite. It took off with three people on board, rising 21 floors to hit the tower’s roof at the 25th floor and rebounding…
MUMBAI: In the build-up to the final phase of polling for 13 seats in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray ruled out any possibility of a reconciliation with BJP. Responding to PM Modi’s ‘Uddhav Thackeray is not my enemy’ remark, he said such statements suggest nothing but confusion in Modi’s mind. “There is no…
PUNE: The southwest monsoon is poised to enter the south Andaman Sea, certain areas of southeast Bay of Bengal and the Nicobar islands by May 19, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).IMD director-general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra told TOI, “This aligns with the near-normal onset date for the region, with Port Blair usually experiencing monsoon onset…
GUWAHATI: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Students of several schools in Manipur that were shut for months as ethnic violence rippled through the state since May last year, have excelled in the CBSE Class 12 exams, in some cases outperforming zones elsewhere in the North-East by a significant margin.St Paul’s School…
NEW DELHI: Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi passed away on Monday at the age of 72. He was battling cancer. Sushil Modi, who served as finance minister of Bihar from 2005-2013 and from 2017-2020, was a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). “The BJP family is deeply saddened by the…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra reported 91 cases of the Covid-19 Omicron subvariant KP.2, which has surpassed the previously dominant JN.1 variant and is currently the primary driver of cases in several nations. As per Dr Rajesh Karyakarte, the state’s genome sequencing coordinator the slight surge in cases witnessed by the state in March, with an average…
