NEW DELHI: Border Security Force on Sunday said that Pak-backed terrorist launching pads are active across the LoC even after the security forces destroyed several of them in PoK during Operation Sindoor.“Several terrorist launching pads across the LoC were destroyed during Operation Sindoor, but some launching pads are still active where there is the presence...
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‘Global first’: Turkey’s drone shoots down aircraft with air-to-air missile – watch
Bayraktar Kizilelma UAV during the trails (Courtesy: Sputnik India) Bayraktar Kizilelma, Türkiye’s first uncrewed fighter jet, shot down a jet-powered aircraft with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile during trials, marking the first time an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has achieved such a feat.In a statement on Sunday, Turkish defence company Baykar, the developer of the...
‘Unable to cope’: Two BLOs die in UP; one by suicide, another from cardiac arrest
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll rolls, two Booth Level Officers (BLOs) died in Uttar Pradesh. While 46-year-old Sarvesh Singh hanged himself in Moradabad’s Baheri village, a woman BLO named Shobharani died of cardiac arrest in Bijnor.According to news agency PTI, Sarvesh Singh confessed to feeling suffocated and said there...
What happens to the body when you have bread-omelette combo daily for breakfast?
For many people, bread-omelette is their ultimate, go-to breakfast. Not only is it extremely easy and quick to make, but it also scores high in nutrition. The toastiness of the bread perfectly combines with the velvety egg texture, adding to the brownie points. But what happens when this innocent food becomes your breakfast staple? “It...
Clean homes, dirty streets: Two faces of our civic sense
The Indian crisis of civic sense. NEW DELHI: Across India, behaviours such as littering, spitting, flouting queues, honking needlessly, encroaching on public spaces, and damaging shared property have become so routine that they often pass without notice.They are not merely behavioural glitches; they are embedded, inherited patterns. The problem is not just policy, enforcement, or...
Haryana lad’s murder in UK exposes harsh reality of Indians on foreign soil
The rising toll on Indian’s abroad and the shrinking safe havens Vijay Kumar was returning to his place when he was waylaid and stabbed multiple times on an isolated stretch, leaving him dead in UK’s Barbourne Road on November 25.His death, thousands of kilometres away from his village in Haryana, marks yet another dark chapter...
Govt bus collide head-on; 11 killed, 20 injured in collision near Karaikudi
MADURAI: A devastating head-on collision between two govt-operated buses near Vivekananda Polytechnic College under Nachiyarpuram police station limits in Sivaganga district’s Tirupattur Utkottam claimed the lives of at least 11 people and left more than 20 injured.The accident occurred around 5:00 PM on Sunday, sending shockwaves across the region and halting evening traffic on the...
‘Immortal love’: Teen marries boyfriend’s corpse; family booked for caste killing
NEW DELHI: A teenage girl in Maharashtra’s Nanded performed symbolic wedding rituals with the body of her murdered boyfriend, hours after her father and brothers were arrested for allegedly killing him over their inter-caste relationship.Police said 25-year-old Saksham Tate was attacked on Thursday evening in the Juna Ganj area after being called there by the...
Big govt order: WA, Telegram told to link services to SIM cards; what it means for users
The Union government has issued new directives requiring messaging platforms to enforce SIM card verification and automatically log out web-based sessions every six hours. This means that users will be barred from accessing their services if they do not have a physical SIM card originally used to register for the application present in their device....
First human bird-flu death from H5N5 – what you need to know
H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first recorded human case of an H5N5 avian influenza virus. What is this virus and how concerned about it should we be? What happened? In early November, a resident of Grays Harbor, a county on...


