Category: Events

NEW DELHI: To enhance civil-military cooperation and improve the quality of life in remote border areas, the Indian Army has constructed a 10-KW solar power plant in north Sikkim and a water storage facility in Arunachal Pradesh.“Trishakti Corps of the Indian Army has established a 10-KW solar power plant at Muguthang village, North Sikkim”, located...

Quinn Hutson (Getty Images) Oilers’ decision to send Quinn Hutson to AHL has stirred unease in Edmonton, even as the wins keep piling up. Sitting atop the Pacific Division should feel comfortable, yet it has not erased a sense of friction around how the roster is being handled. The Oilers score in bunches, survive mistakes,...

As the Chiefs wrapped up a disappointing season, Travis Kelce faced mounting questions about his NFL future and the possibility of retirement. At the same time, Taylor Swift reached another career high, extending her historic run atop the Billboard 200. The contrast highlighted a pivotal moment for the high-profile couple, with one career pausing as...

KOLHAPUR: Following a high court directive, Oxford University Press has apologised to Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale, 13th descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and others offended by “unverified statements” in four pages of James Laine’s 2003 book, ‘Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India’. Protests over these had led to an attack on a Pune-based history research centre.Acting...

LONDON: Individuals from white British and Indian ethnic groups have seen substantial increases in median wealth in Britain since 2012, whilst the wealth of those of Pakistani ethnicity has seen a marked decline, a new report from the London School of Economics (LSE) shows.Individuals from Asian Other and white Other ethnic groups also experienced substantial...

BOLPUR/KOLKATA: An SIR notice summoning Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to a hearing over a discrepancy that Election Commission has since identified as a “spelling error” led Trinamool Congress to claim on Tuesday that it was an “affront to Bengal and an icon who brought global recognition to India”.EC clarified that Sen needn’t report at the...

THANE: A rare alliance between BJP and Congress has emerged in the township of Ambernath after recent local body elections, surprising political observers and party cadres. BJP has joined hands with councillors from Congress and the Ajit Pawar-headed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form the Ambernath Vikas Aghadi and take control of a municipal council...

Representative Image THANE: The acrimonious battle between Mahayuti partners BJP and Shiv Sena for control of Ambernath municipal council took a new turn Tuesday as rivals BJP and Congress, in a rare move, joined hands to keep out Shiv Sena in its traditional stronghold falling within MP Shrikant Shinde’s constituency. The Eknath Shinde-led party won...

NEW DELHI: Over 9,000 birds across 131 species were spotted along Yamuna floodplains in the capital during the Asian Waterbird Census this weekend.The survey, carried out by a group of nearly 20 birders in collaboration with eBird, an online avian database, flagged several ecological threats to the habitat, including illegal sand mining on the floodplains,...

Representative image PATHANKOT: Security forces in Punjab have uncovered a chilling new frontier in cross-border espionage after apprehending a 14-year-old boy allegedly recruited by Pakistani intelligence to map sensitive military installations.He was a tech-savvy teenager with a history of psychological struggles; to the ISI, he was the perfect “soft target”, a pawn in a chilling...