CHENNAI: What was first believed to be a tragic fire accident inside a Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) office in Madurai has now been exposed as a meticulously planned murder. A month after senior branch manager A Kalyani Nambi, 54, was found charred to death inside her office cabin, investigators have arrested her colleague, assistant administrative...
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Cigarette in hand, cruising at 120kmph: 4 teens killed in horrific car crash — video
UDAIPUR: Four teenagers were killed and six others injured when two cars collided on the old Ahmedabad bypass near Nela Talab in Udaipur district early on Saturday, police said. The impact of the crash was so severe that both vehicles were completely destroyed, leaving several occupants trapped inside. Emergency responders had to cut open the...
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Spain: Train derails in Barcelona days after high-speed rail collision; 1 killed, 37 injured
A commuter passenger train derailed near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Tuesday night (local time) after a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks following heavy rain, killing the train driver and injuring 37 people, regional authorities said.The accident occurred near the town of Gelida, around 35 minutes outside Barcelona, involving a commuter service on...
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Md Shami, with 462 wickets for India, falls in line for SIR
KOLKATA: “I am a proud Indian and Bengal citizen. If called 10 times I will come and prove my citizenship on every single occasion,” said Indian fast bowler Md Shami, who has 462 wickets across formats, after appearing for an SIR hearing on Tuesday to protect his vote.Shami, who shifted to Kolkata as a youngster,...
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100 stray dogs poisoned near Hyderabad after 500 culled in Telangana
HYDERABAD: Another 100 stray dogs have been allegedly poisoned to death in Yacharam village of Rangareddy district — about 50 km from Hyderabad — sparking fresh outrage among animal welfare activists. The killings come days after the mass murder of over 500 dogs across three districts in Telangana.It is suspected that here, too, the killings...
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‘Your career’s ruined’: Judge warns TISS students linked to Saibaba event
MUMBAI: A sessions court Monday issued a stern warning to nine students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) seeking anticipatory bail, observing their involvement in a criminal case could permanently damage their professional future.The students are under investigation for organising an unauthorised event on the TISS campus at Deonar to commemorate the first death...
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‘Dhurandhar’ inches closer to Rs 1,300 crore mark
‘Dhurandhar’, the spy action thriller, starring Ranveer Singh and Akshaye Khanna in lead roles, maintained its grip over the ticket windows, after sliding down to the Rs 1 crore range. The film that took a dip and hit its lowest collection to date, managed to hold on and maintain a steady graph on Tuesday.Dhurandhar Movie...
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Narrating stories of the world’s women mathematicians, in portraits
“Solving mathematical problems gave me a unique sensation of freedom that did not depend on what happened around me,” confessed Irina Kmit, a Ukrainian mathematician, now a professor in the mathematics department at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research topics include hyperbolic differential equations and boundary value problems. And she described maths as a...
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Why only female Darwin’s bark spiders weave the toughest webs
One of the strongest materials on the earth isn’t made in a factory or synthesised in a laboratory but spun by a creature barely two inches long. The Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini), found in the forests of Madagascar, weaves silk that outperforms steel and most human-made fibres in both strength and toughness. Larger webs,...
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Noida techie death case: Realtor who owned plot held; SIT probes failed rescue
NOIDA: The director of real estate company Wiztown Planners was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the death of 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta in a waterlogged trench at Sector 150.Police said the commercial plot where the trench is dug was in possession of Wiztown. Its director Abhay Kumar, a resident of Commonwealth Games Village...
