MUMBAI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s famous 2011 World Cup-winning six, etched in the memory of all Indian cricket fans, is set to find its permanent place in the Wankhede Stadium.At a meeting of its Apex Council on Monday, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) decided to make a ‘memorial’ at the spot in the stands behind long-on, where the ball fell after Dhoni hit Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Kulasekara for...
THANE: A decade after Adarsh Tower inside Lucky Compound in Shil-Daighar near Mumbra crashed like a pack of cards, claiming 74 lives and maiming 62 others on April 4, 2013, trial in the unauthorised construction is moving at a snail's pace with only 56 of the over 400 witnesses being examined so far. For those who survived, getting justice seems to be taking longer than expected. The prosecution,...
KOLKATA: A 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering a 16-year-old girl who had gone missing from her Kolkata Leather Complex area home on March 25 and whose body was found a week ago. The accused, Tufan Pramanik, is a cycle shop owner and had been hiding in the Dhapa landfill site for the past 60 hours.Pramanik was picked up from Khanaberia Sarderpara on Monday. "He was trying to get a job...
CHENNAI: A 29-year-old man employed with a private airline in Chennai was murdered by his girlfriend and three men in Pudukottai. His body was cut into pieces, transported 400 km and buried in the sands at Kovalam, police said on Tuesday. They have arrested the woman, Bhagyalakshmi, 38, and are on the lookout for the men.Police said M Jeyanthan, ground staff for Thai Airways at the Chennai international...
NEW DELHI: Heavy rainfall along with thunderstorms lashed several parts of the city and National Capital Region (NCR) in the wee hours of Tuesday.Waterlogging was witnessed in several parts of Delhi after the rainfall, which is likely to create inconvenience for commuters during peak morning hours.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted thunderstorms with light to moderate-intensity rain...
MUMBAI: The west region Cyber police is probing a case where an unidentified cyber fraudster used a 'man-in-the middle' (MITM) attack modus operandi, created a fake email ID, similar to a Portugal-based company's, and duped a Mumbai company of Rs 54 lakh.In the MITM attack, a cyber attacker generally impersonates one of the two parties interacting and sends a message to the other party that believes it...
AYODHYA: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi received support from one of the priests of Ayodhya's Hanumangarhi temple, one of the most revered temples in the holy town, who offered him residence on the premises of the 10th-century temple.Mahant Sanjay Das of Hanumangarhi temple, who is the heir to the temple's head priest Mahant Gyan Das, said that the seers welcome Rahul Gandhi to the holy city and offer him...
A highly drug-resistant bacteria that was linked to eyedrops imported from India and that spread from person to person in a long-term care center in Connecticut, US, has prompted concerns that the strain could gain a foothold in US health care settings, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Specialists said the strain had not been previously detected in the US, and that it was...
CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday expressed regret for his previous day's “inappropriate comments” about a high court judge, acknowledging that his remarks regarding the judiciary were inappropriate.“It was not an intentional remark against any particular judge, still I withdraw my remarks. Judiciary, executive and legislature function together for the public...
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia is a London-based entrepreneur and his inspiring journey of arriving in the Union Kingdom as a refugee in 1972, after his family was forced to flee the regime of dictator Idi Amin in Uganda, to becoming the founder of a business which is now Europe’s biggest distributor of auto parts, is similar of that of many others of Indian origin. However, what sets him apart from most...
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