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Sir Elton John’s long-time Atlanta home, created over more than 30 years by combining six separate apartments, has sold for $7.225 million (£5.9 million). The final price was more than $2.2 million above the original asking price, after a short bidding period for the high-rise property. Located on the 36th floor of the Park Place...

Landslide struck Kottakamboor in Vattavada, Idukki. KOCHI: At least three people died after a landslide struck Kottakamboor in Vattavada, Idukki, Kerala, on Sunday.Police said the death toll in the flash flood in the Chokkad River has risen to three. The bodies of a woman and two men who went missing in the incident have been...

Nandigram: Congress candidate for the Nandigram Assembly by-election Milan Pradhan, who has been arrested in connection with an old murder case. (Photo: IANS) Nandigram: Congress’s Nandigram bypoll candidate Milan Pradhan was slapped with another case on Sunday – taking the case count against him to five. Following this, Congress said it would move Calcutta High...

Dhrubajyoti Guha, based near Frankfurt in Germany, graduated in mechanical engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (now IIEST Shibpur), in 2002. An Indian-origin climber and his Nepalese Sherpa guide were killed in an overnight avalanche at Camp 3 on Mount Manaslu (8,163m) after they continued towards the summit while six other climbers turned back amid...

US President Donald Trump TOI correspondent from Washington: For years, Indian-origin conservatives in the Trump orbit have been comforting themselves that race doesn’t matter, ideology does. They are now discovering a rather inconvenient footnote: in the MAGA world, you can pass the ideological exam and still fail the race test and dinner evaluation.Trump’s Chandigarh-born legal...

Destin-Fort Walton Beach More than 1,300 tonnes of old concrete pipes are being dropped into the Gulf of Mexico to create a series of artificial reefs off the coast of Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The project uses three million pounds of recycled concrete culverts to create three separate underwater habitats. Each site will receive about...

Tata Sons board resolution on Chandrasekaran reappointment invalid, says Tata Trusts NEW DELHI: Tata Trusts has said the resolution to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as chairman of Tata Sons was not validly passed at the company’s September 17 board meeting, arguing that it did not receive the required support from Tata Trusts’ nominee directors.In a statement,...

Indian men’s hockey team at the Asian Games (Photo/ Hockey India) The Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams wore saffron jerseys in their respective opening matches at the Asian Games on Sunday, despite Hockey India’s pre-event announcement that the teams would return to their traditional blue kits.Both teams wore saffron in their opening matches against...

Pic for representation MUMBAI: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) on Saturday commenced initial fuel loading of the 700MWe Rajasthan Atomic Power Stations units RAPP-7 and RAPP-8 at Rawatbhata, marking a significant milestone in India’s nuclear power programme.RAPP-7 and RAPP-7 are indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors.The fuel loading process began after receiving clearance from...