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BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR: One life ended. Four others got a second chance. A heart raced against time aboard a Vande Bharat Express, turning a migrant worker’s final act of kindness into a milestone for India’s organ transplant programme.Mithun Swain, 36, a textile mill worker from Odisha’s Ganjam district, became the country’s first organ donor whose heart was...

Glasgow: From left, Indian women boxers silver medallist Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) and gold medallists Jaismine Lamboria (57kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg) and Arundhati Choudhary (70kg) after the boxing events at the 23rd Commonwealth Games (CWG), in Glasgow, Scotland. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary) (PTI08_02_2026_000060A) *** Local Caption *** India enjoyed its most...

NEW DELHI: SC judge Ujjal Bhuyan has questioned opacity in the collegium’s decisions on judicial appointments.“I have noticed that the last three collegium resolutions contain no reasons whatsoever. Is this a step back from the principle of transparency?” said Justice Bhuyan at a panel discussion on Saturday. “By withholding reasons, we also create space for...

MUMBAI: Zepto on Saturday said that it will raise funds through a pre-IPO financing amid tepid response from investors to its public listing.Zepto did not share the specifics of the transaction but said that the move will strengthen its balance sheet. It is looking to raise around Rs 1,000 crore through the round at a...

SHIMLA/PITHIRAGARH: India and China resumed traditional border trade Saturday through Lipulekh in Uttarakhand and Shipki La in Himachal Pradesh after nearly six years, restoring two key Himalayan trade routes that had remained closed since the Covid-19 pandemic.At Lipulekh in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, the first batch of 16 traders and four support staff crossed into Tibet...

KOLKATA/BURDWAN: West Bengal Police STF on Saturday arrested suspected terrorist Hamim Mondal’s girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, from Sahibganj in Jharkhand and said they are probing the duo’s alleged plan to foment trouble at Jantar Mantar, the site of recent student protest.Hamim, who was allegedly tracking Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, was arrested from a residential township...

Preeti Pawar, Ankush Panghal India signed off from the boxing competition at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a record haul of seven gold medals after Narender won silver in the men’s 90+kg category on Saturday.Narender was outclassed by England’s Damar Thomas in the men’s 90+kg final, losing by a unanimous 0-5 decision to settle...

A combined team of NDRF and Fire and Rescue Services evacuates people stranded in floodwaters in an inflatable dinghy at Ranni on Saturday KOCHI: At least eight people were killed in rain-related incidents in the state as Kerala remained on high alert on Saturday, with incessant rain triggering landslides, severe flooding and widespread damage.IMD issued...

Union home minister Amit Shah confers Lokmanya Tilak National Award on NSA Ajit Doval in the presence of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, and deputy chief ministers Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar, in Pune on Saturday Pune: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged the country’s youth to draw inspiration from freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal...

Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million galaxies and 50,000 stars. (NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory:NOIRLab:SLAC:AURA) Astronomers have just got their clearest look yet at one of the most studied patches of sky in the world. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, based in Chile,...