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BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR/HYDERABAD: He vanished at will — sometimes robed as a swamiji, stick in hand, towel over his shoulder — shedding names as easily as trails. On Thursday, bullets caught up with Maoist commander Paka Hanumanthu, better known as Ganesh Uike, with a collective bounty of Rs 1.1 crore, who refused to surrender and died in...

MYSURU: A 42-year-old balloon seller died and four persons, mostly tourists, sustained injuries after a jumbo cylinder used to fill balloons with helium exploded in front of the main entry gate to Mysuru Palace around 8.30pm Thursday.Ruling out foul play, police sources said the name and other details of the deceased were not immediately known....

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had ordered a “powerful and deadly strike” against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in northwest Nigeria, accusing the group of targeting and killing Christians in the region.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the strike was carried out...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi created history with a stunning performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday. Playing for Bihar in their first Plate Group match of the 2025–26 season, the 14-year-old opener produced one of the most remarkable innings ever seen in domestic cricket.Sooryavanshi smashed 190 runs from just 84...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126180749,imgsize-636283,width-400,resizemode-4/untitled-design-64.jpg" alt="PM Modi: Freed country from tendency to link all good works with one family" title=" File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: ANI) ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: ANI) LUCKNOW: Mounting yet another scathing attack on Congress, PM Narendra Modi Thursday accused past govts of glorifying one family while neglecting...

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government has made newspaper reading compulsory for students of all state-run secondary and basic schools to cultivate reading habits, reduce screen time and develop critical, and logical thinking skills among them.An order issued by additional chief secretary (basic and secondary education) Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma, on December 23 says newspapers, both English...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126180509,imgsize-1291554,width-400,resizemode-4/untitled-design-61.jpg" alt="In new social media policy,Army allows limited usage" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: Relaxing existing blanket bans on using several social media apps for its over 11.5 lakh soldiers, Indian Army has now come out with a new policy that allows limited usage.Soldiers can now access Instagram but...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126179922,imgsize-15102,width-400,resizemode-4/representative-image.jpg" alt="Odisha: Labelled Bangladeshi, youth lynched in Sambalpur, claim kin; police cite monetary dispute as reason" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image SUTI(MURSHIDABAD)/SAMBALPUR: A 20-year-old villager from Suti, who went to work as a mason in Odisha’s Sambalpur five days ago — his first job outside Bengal — was beaten to death...

Representative image MOHALI: CBI has filed a chargesheet in a Mohali court against four Punjab Police personnel in connection with the assault on Colonel Pushpinder Bath, naming an inspector as the prime accused.The central agency has dropped charges of attempted murder and instead invoked charges for ‘causing grievous hurt’ and ‘wrongful restraint’. The chargesheet names...

BHOPAL: On a forested stretch of Bhopal-Jabalpur national highway, the National Highways Authority of India has introduced what it describes as India’s first integrated “wildlife-safe” road corridor, combining speed-calming design, fencing, animal underpasses and electronic monitoring on a section of NH-45 that cuts through a critical tiger habitat in MP. The features, on a 12km...