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THANE: Two brave sisters returning from the airport in the wee hours of Monday rescued a huge and bulky python that slithered into their residential complex in Vasant Vihar, said residents.Sheetal Koul, who stays in the Garden Enclave society, was returning home with her sister, Komal Koul, who had just arrived from the US when they spotted a roughly eight-foot-long python sluggishly ascending the...

KOLKATA: South Dum Dum Municipality has started using drones to check rooftops of buildings and spray larvicide in the worst dengue-affected localities under its jurisdiction.Civic officials said that the main objective behind using drones is to identify stagnant water and kill mosquito larvae by spraying larvicide at the dengue-prone localities where the civic body workers were finding it difficult to...

COIMBATORE/MADURAI: A 35-year-old woman, who was arrested for kidnapping an 18-month-old boy from Tiruchendur, died in the custody of the Alandurai police in Coimbatore district on Monday afternoon.Police had picked up Thilagavathi and her husband, Pandian, 43, from Poondi in Coimbatore district and brought them to the Alandurai station earlier in the day.A senior police officer said, "The couple were...

GURGAON: Supercars that snooze in the stables and make fleeting appearances at night on the wide boulevards of Delhi-NCR, when the milling traffic has faded away, have found new pastures to test their horsepower.Every day, the newly opened Gurgaon-Dausa (Rajasthan) section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway sees Mercs, BMWs, Ferraris and Porsches, among others, scorching the concrete and stretching the...

MUMBAI: A petty argument over taking over the parcel outside a restaurant and bar in Chembur led to a physical fight between two friends and a 22 year old youth. The duo beat up the youth to death and have been arrested. The deceased has been identified as Anil Dharam Randive, a resident of Chembur camp who used to work in a decorator's office. The two accused are Rithik Bajaj (23) and Harshad Valhotra...

CHENNAI: Vijayakumar, 64, and his wife Usha Devi, 59, are in a rare mix of relief and tension. Relief because they are with their daughter; tension because they find themselves in a war zone. The couple from Thiruvananthapuram had travelled to Israel last month to spend time with their daughter Anagha, who is pursuing her PhD at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv and are now stuck in raging war after...

Much attention will be lavished on caste and community voting intentions in these state polls, very little on boring stuff like agriculture. Yet in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana, farmers are key election influencers.The farm factor, at the base level, comes from the share of population that works in agriculture - 72.4% in MP, 70% in Chhattisgarh, 62% in Rajasthan and 60% in Telangana....

NEW DELHI: Pushed by the court to either clear the names sent for judgeship expeditiously or be ready for some unpalatable order, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it cleared 70 names forwarded by high courts for judgeship and sent to the SC collegium and also took the decision to transfer 12 HC judges out of 26 recommended. It also said that the government would soon implement collegium...

GURGAON: A 33-year-old man was reportedly assaulted by bouncers at a bar in Gurgaon's Sector 29 Market, resulting in the loss of vision in one eye, as well as other injuries, according to the police on Monday. The victim also claimed that the assailants behaved inappropriately with a female friend who was accompanying him.Sumer Singh Vij, a resident of Maruti Vihar Sector 28, lodged a complaint stating...

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday set the ball rolling for assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - the last electoral battle in the run-up to 2024 general election - by announcing a 24-day poll window extending from November 7 to November 30.Chhattisgarh will be the only state to have polling in two phases, with the assembly constituencies in the...