Category: Events

A masked assailant entered a supermarket in the US state of Virginia and shot dead Meghna Patel, a 47-year-old from Gujarat employed at the store, during a suspected robbery attempt.Shot at close range, Meghna succumbed to injuries before help could arrive. A native of Jantral village in Mehsana district, she had been living in the...

TOI correspondent from London: Britain’s record-breaking May heatwave has raised political temperatures too as the Conservatives pledge to reverse national net-zero building regulations banning air-conditioning in new homes, going back on rules introduced by their party during Boris Johnson‘s premiership.“Why should Britain be one of the only countries to not have air-conditioning? The next Conservative...

SRINAGAR: Gulmarg’s gondola will remain suspended for a week to install a new gearbox after a snag halted operations of the cable car on Monday.More than 300 tourists were trapped for up to seven hours, triggering panic and a large-scale rescue operation by J&K police, the Army and State Disaster Response Force. Some were left...

KOLKATA: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday announced that heavily subsidised Maa canteens across urban areas in the state will soon serve a fish-rice lunch twice a week at Rs 5.“We have decided that all 367 Maa canteens across the state will serve fish twice a week. The meal will be available for just Rs 5,”...

Zubeen Garg Guwahati: The fast-track court set up in connection with singer Zubeen Garg’s death in Singapore in Sept 2025 framed charges against all seven accused on Tuesday, including murder charges against four.The trial is scheduled to begin on June 8. The Assam court’s decision comes two months after the Singapore Coroner’s court, on March...

Dr Ronaldo Laishram GUWAHATI: An Indian astrophysicist from Manipur, based at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has led an international team to discover a 12.6-billion-year-old primitive galaxy protocluster, described as the “seeds” of today’s massive cosmic structures.The structure, located in the direction of the constellation Sextans, has been named the ‘Loktak Protocluster’ after...

A car being pulled by a tractor amid poor road conditions(L), Union home minister Amit Shah (R: Photo credit: X/@Amit Shah) RAIPUR: Tired of waiting for a road that has remained incomplete for nearly a decade, residents of a remote tribal village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district in Bastar have now made an unusual appeal to...

Tamil Nadu political crisis: Rebel AIADMK MLA Balakrishna Reddy backs EPS, submits apology letter amid party turmoil NEW DELHI: Amid growing factionalism within the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and a series of resignations by rebel legislators, Hosur MLA P Balakrishna Reddy on Tuesday extended support to party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami in...

Photo credit: PTI NEW DELHI: In what is being seen as a shift in stance from that conveyed by its strongly worded letter to Delhi Gymkhana Club (DGC) to “hand over peaceful possession” of its premises on June 5, Centre on Tuesday seemed more restrained in Delhi High Court, saying that it had given the...

Clashes among members of Poonam Cluster housing society MIRA BHAYANDER: Tensions flared in Mira Road on Monday and Tuesday after members of the Poonam Cluster housing society objected to goats being kept in the society’s premises ahead of Bakri Eid, which falls on May 28. Videos of arguments went viral on Monday evening, and according...