NEW DELHI: Two young Indian shooters, Palak Gulia and Esha Singh, took centre stage at the Asian Games, clinching gold and silver medals in the highly competitive 10m air pistol event. Their performances have added to India's burgeoning tally in the sport, now standing at an impressive 17 medals, including six golds.Seventeen-year-old Palak emerged as the star of the day, securing the coveted gold medal...
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Sep 29, 2023, 07:30AM ISTSource: TOI.inGold Investment Guide: As the festive season approaches, gold buying is expected to pick up. What should you invest in? Gold jewelry, Gold coins, Gold bars, Gold ETFs, Gold MFs, Sovereign Gold Bonds or some other digital gold options like Paytm gold or PhonePe Gold? In this week’s episode of TOI Wallet Talks, Navneet Damani, Head of Research, Commodities &...
KOLKATA: A city-based businessman living at Tiljala has filed an FIR and sought legal aid from the ministry of home affairs after discovering that his wife of 14 years is a Bangladeshi national with a fraudulent Indian passport. According to his lawyer, he came to know about this after his wife made a case under Section 498A against him.In the complaint, she alleged that she had suffered the miscarriage...
CHENNAI: A pedestrian died while another sustained severe injuries after being mowed down by a car on Alagappa Road in Kilpauk on Wednesday. At least three two-wheelers and an autorickshaw were also damaged in the accident. Police arrested the man behind the wheel, who said he had hit the accelerator instead of applying brake.The video of the shocking accident went viral on social media on...
GURGAON: Four persons, including a lawyer, were arrested for orchestrating a fraud in which they sold off an NRI's Rs 40 crore plot off the Southern Peripheral Road.An assistant sub-inspector of the economic offences wing was also arrested for negligence in his probe and not finding any wrongdoing even after weeks of sifting through documents. Police later formed an SIT, which eventually found out how...
NEW DELHI: The US embassy here said on Thursday it has processed over 10 lakh non-immigrant visa applications so far this year, a first for India. This is almost 20% more than the numbers processed in pre-Covid 2019 and 2022. "Indians now represent over 10% of all visa applicants worldwide, including 20% of all student visa applicants, and 65% of all H & L category (employment) visa applicants," the...
MUMBAI: A 16-year-old died at Juhu Chowpatty in Mumbai while Ganpati immersions were ongoing at the beach on Thursday. The teenager was identified as Hasan Yusuf Shaikh. According to the Mumbai fire brigade, Shaikh was traced near the sea at around 4.15 pm on Thursday and was immediately rushed to civic-run Cooper Hospital by an ambulance at the site. Video: What's behind 61,000 lightning strikes within...
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police arrested Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday morning at his Chandigarh residence in connection with a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, registered against him in Jalalabad of Fazilka district in 2015.Khaira’s arrest has the potential to strain relations between Congressand AAP, both constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc.The...
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha director general of police, Sunil Kumar Bansal, on Thursday unveiled a mascot for a statewide awareness campaign on cyber safety that would be held from September 30 to October 15. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to inaugurate the campaign on Thursday.The mascot, christened as Cyrra (a combination of cyber and Irrawady), has been designed like a dolphin. Police said they...