Category: Events

IIT Bombay suspends Dean Suryanarayana Doolla NEW DELHI: IIT Bombay on Monday suspended Dean of Student Affairs Professor Suryanarayana Doolla with immediate effect following the death by suicide of 20-year-old BTech student Sahil Wakode.The suspension came amid student protests and demands for action over the circumstances surrounding Sahil’s death.“Prof. Suryanarayana Doolla, Dean of Student Affairs,...

AI Image Used For Representational Purpose Only KOLKATA/MUMBAI: Long before true-crime documentaries turned unsolved murders into national conversations, a series of killings on the streets of Mumbai and Kolkata created one of country’s enduring crime mysteries.The victims were largely pavement dwellers who were attacked while sleeping. Their heads were smashed with heavy stones or concrete...

File photo: US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump had moved to launch airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) pressed him to intervene. But Trump abruptly halted the operation before the strikes...

Congress targets PM Modi, Centre over rising food prices, inflation. NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government over “skyrocketing prices” of food and other commodities, using the popular Bollywood song “Kya hua tera vada” to question the PM’s silence on inflation.Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared a media...

The Mumbai Police has transferred the case to the Crime Branch after the student’s father filed a complaint NEW DELHI: Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed on Monday expressed solidarity with an IIT Bombay professor accused by the father of a second-year BTech student of harassing his son, saying that students in her generation were “mentally strong”.The...

Al Ellis and his late wife Sondra had spent decades building the biggest vision of their lives, a 207-acre ranch near their two-story log home off US Highway 191 in Boulder, a town of roughly 100 people 12 miles south of Pinedale. Ellis, an 84-year-old Navy veteran and former commercial driver, had turned to become...

Court ruled in favour of the tenant and rejected the landlord’s plea seeking her eviction. (Image for representative purpose only) He moved to Canada and rented his Punjab house for Rs 20,000 a month, then sought eviction to use it during India visits; Punjab & Haryana HC rules against landlord, allows tenant to stayA man...

Japan cricketer Abhishek Anand (Image: @abhishekanand6527/Instagram) From IIT Kanpur to Japan’s national cricket team, Abhishek Anand’s journey has taken an unexpected turn and now, a viral video has put the Bihar-born cricketer in the spotlight ahead of Japan’s historic T20I against India.The 28-year-old, who hails from Bihar’s Rohtas district, moved to Japan for employment after...

Just days after Michael Dell briefly climbed to the position of the world’s second-richest man, the Dell Technologies founder is making headlines again — this time in real estate. Dell has put his 4,100-square-foot Boston penthouse on the market, a property he purchased a decade ago for $10.9 million. Located in Boston’s Millennium Tower, the...

Sangrur youth consumes poison outside DC office, alleges harassment over drug video. NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sachin Pilot tore into CM Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government after a person “consumed poisonous substance” over harassement he allegedly faced for speaking against durg menace in the poll-bound state.Highlighting the incident, which would possibly compound the crisis for the...