At least four persons, including two women, died and 14 cattle drowned when the skies opened up late on Friday night, catching Nagpurians literally sleeping. Citizens woke up to flooded houses and streets as heavy rains continued to pound the city till early on Saturday morning.The deceased were identified as Mirabai Pilley (70, a resident of Mahesh Nagar), Sandhya Dhore (80, a resident of Surendragadh,...
Every day is a race against time for A Marimuthu. Maneuvering through traffic, the sound of the siren overhead drowned by the relentless honking of impatient motorists and drivers on the road, the 43-yearold has to ensure the safety of the patient and others inside the ambulance he is driving.For Marimuthu, who has been an ambulance driver for the past 17 years, driving at breakneck speed through...
NEW DELHI: Delhi Jal Board (DJB) wants the Delhi government to raise the issue of release of pollutants by Haryana and Uttar Pradesh into the Yamuna at the next north zone council (NZC) meeting scheduled to take place in Amritsar on September 26.Officials said industrial effluents from Haryana's Sonepat, Panipat and Rohtak districts and UP's Ghaziabad and Noida districts continue to pollute the Yamuna....
MUMBAI: Increasingly at Ganeshotsav, a set of new, young hands have begun to sculpt, mould and paint Ganesha idols. Along with fresh ideas and techniques, these moortikars in their 30s are adept in the use of social media, gaining thousands of followers who fawn over their work and dissect their style.Over five years, much of the old generation of Ganesh moortikars has been phased out. Famous sculptor...
LUCKNOW: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday urged Sangh functionaries to prioritise work among non-Hindus, in what is being seen as an attempt to be seen as an inclusive organisation instead of just the torchbearer of Hindutva.According to sources, directives to work among non-Hindus Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, Jains and other religions were given to RSS Awadh Prant functionaries during a meeting held...
KALYAN: A tanker explosion in Century Rayon's Ulhasnagar plant has claimed the lives of two workers. Two others were reported missing till the time of filing this report late Saturday evening. While the rear portion of the tanker was completely destroyed in the blast, chunks of human flesh were found strewn around the site of the incident. The company said that it has initiated an internal investigation...
MUMBAI: The majority of the country’s sickest patients may no longer benefit from carbapenem, an antibiotic that effectively treated pneumonia and septicemia until a decade back, according to the latest Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study on antimicrobial resistance.The study, released on Friday, found that abuse of antimicrobials — be they antibiotics, antivirals or antifungals — had...
GUWAHATI: Browsers and bookmarks on phones sprung back to life in strife-ridden Manipur on Saturday after 143 days as the BJP-led state government ended the country's second longest mobile internet blackout after the one in J&K since August 4, 2019, that lasted a record 552 days. The return of mobile internet coincided with the administration lifting total curfew for a day in the twin valley...
NEW DELHI: Dismissing the claims made earlier by the Canadian government, David Eby, premier of the province of British Columbia, said at a press conference on Friday that the information provided to him by the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-led federal government regarding India’s involvement in Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s assassination was “an open source information” that was...
NOIDA: A couple has been charged by the police for allegedly assaulting a man at a high-rise building in Sector 75, Noida earlier this week. The incident took place on September 20, stemming from a dispute over posters related to the woman's missing pet dog. A video capturing the incident emerged on social media on Saturday.According to the police, the woman had recently lost her pet dog within the...
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