In a whirlwind of elegance and charm, the wedding bells have rung for Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra and her beau, Raghav Chadha. The much-awaited nuptials unfolded in all its grandeur at the opulent Leela Palace in Udaipur, Rajasthan and then the couple headed to Taj Lake Palace for later nuptials. With an eye for style and an affinity for all things matching, this power couple made their union a...
2023
For thousands of highly skilled and talented Indians, who are waiting for green cards in the US on the fast track EB-1 (employment based) category, the recent monthly visa bulletin released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, brought bad news. The visa bulletin for October 2023, which is also the first for the fiscal year 2024, did not deliver on an earlier USCIS guidance that the backlog...
Why sugar stocks are up as much as 7 percent This positive trend in sugar company stocks follows recent government orders mandating the disclosure of sugar stock positions for traders, wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers, and sugar processors. This measure aims to proactively address hoarding and...
Young Indian cricketer Shreyanka Patil might not be a household name just yet, but at the age of 21, she is already making waves. Over the last 12 months or so her stature has grown such that she has emerged as an inspiration to a plethora of emerging cricketers across the nation. The right-arm off-spinner became the first player to represent India in the Women's Caribbean Premier League (WCPL) when she...
THANE: Thane residents seem to have given thumbs up to eco-friendly visarjan as a majority of the Bappa idols immersed on the fifth day of Ganeshotsav were done in artificial ponds, civic data reveals. As many as 11,536 or around 64% of the total 17,836 Ganpati and Gauri idols including 171 sarvajanik idols immersions were done at the 15 designated artificial ponds while 42 special tanks in the city saw...
KOLKATA: A wife is not her husband's property that she has to seek permission for whatever she does, the Calcutta High Court said in an order. The HC also turned down a divorce plea on the grounds of cruelty after a man accused his wife of selling off a property in her name without consulting him. The HC said, "The wife cannot be regarded as the property of the husband nor is she expected to seek...
CHENNAI: Thirteen people including seven children fell sick after drinking lemon juice mixed with silica gel in Tiruvallur district. Their health condition is stable and are recovering well, health minister Ma Subramanian told reporters here on Sunday.People fell ill after someone who made lemon juice for distribution added frozen silica gel from an ice pack, mistaking it for ice, as they could not find...
NEW DELHI: As Delhi government explores the idea of artificial rain to control pollution in the winter months, experts said that the prerequisite conditions - which led the scientists to shelve the idea of cloud seeding in the city two years ago - remained the same even though Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, had experimented with the technology.Earlier this month, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal...
MUMBAI: The city witnessed an 88% increase in the total number of Ganpati idols immersed on the fifth day of visarjan compared to the previous year.According to official data from the BMC, last year 43,385 idols were immersed while at the same time this year, 81,570 idols were immersed on the fifth day. Mumbai: Meet the Muslim Police Constable who is celebrating Ganeshotsav in Mumbai to promote...
PATNA: A 30-year-old Mahadalit woman was brutally assaulted, stripped, and urinated on her mouth late Saturday night for her purported failure to repay additional interest on a loan amounting to Rs 1,500, which she had borrowed from alocal strongman in Mosimpur village of Bihar’s Patna district, police said Sunday. The woman has identified her attackers as Pramod Singh, his son Anshu Kumar, and four...