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Jack Backman holds the one-pound pumpkinseed that set a new South Dakota state record. (Wired2Fish photo) A fishing trip in South Dakota turned into a record-breaking day after a teenager caught the biggest pumpkinseed ever officially recorded in the state.Jack Backman of Harrisburg, South Dakota, was fishing with his friend Garrett Johnson on June 18...

MUMBAI: A video purportedly showing supporters of senior Maharashtra Congress leader Nana Patole washing his feet during Gurupurnima celebrations has sparked political reactions, with Maharashtra revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule criticising the incident.According to news agency PTI, Bawankule took a swipe at the Congress over what he described as its “culture”.“It is the culture of Congress...

Pakistan denies UN report that documents civilian casualties in Afghanistan, calls it ‘baseless’ Pakistan’s military has rejected a UN report documenting hundreds of civilian casualties from cross-border fighting with Afghanistan, saying its forces targeted only Pakistani Taliban hideouts and other militant infrastructure and carried out the strikes in self-defence.Pakistan’s military spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif...

India has successfully developed its first indigenous expendable turbojet engine. (Image credit: DRDO) NEW DELHI: India has entered an exclusive club of countries capable of designing and producing indigenous expendable turbojet engines after the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully developed the country’s first 350kg thrust-class expendable turbojet engine. Designed by DRDO’s Gas Turbine...

Lovlina Borgohain (AP Photo) Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain said she felt hurt after noticing that India’s Northeast was missing from a map used by a popular Indian restaurant in Glasgow. The Assam boxer spotted the issue during a celebratory dinner for India’s record-breaking Commonwealth Games boxing campaign and raised it with the restaurant management.The Indian...

In India, a towel draped over an office chair often became a symbol of power, associated with a govt job. Long ago, my father told me a story about a certain ‘Sunil ji. Nobody ever addressed him by his first name, it was always succeeded by a ‘ji’, because his office chair was covered with...

Representative image An Indian woman living in London reveals why she would never return for a corporate job in her home country. Jasleen Kaur, a Delhiite and dual-qualified solicitor (India and England & Wales), says she is done with Indian corporate culture. After working as a legal professional in London for two years, where it...

India’s biggest listed companies added Rs 2.51 lakh crore in market value last week as a rally on Dalal Street lifted nine of the top-10 most-valued firms. Bajaj Finance emerged as the biggest gainer after its June-quarter earnings, while Hindustan Unilever was the only company to end the week with a lower valuation.BSE Sensex climbed...

Ten climbers, including Nirmal Purja, died in a Broad Peak avalanche. Search efforts continue for the remaining bodies after the incident. Renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and nine other climbers swept away by an avalanche on PoK’s Broad Peak have been confirmed dead, according to the Alpine Club of Pakistan and Purja’s expedition company.Search and...

Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar (centre) and former CMs Siddaramaiah (left) and BS Yeddiyurappa NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar on Sunday described the Mekedatu dam project, proposed by the state government on the Cauvery river, as a “permanent solution” to the long-standing dispute between Karnataka and neighbouring Tamil Nadu over the sharing of Cauvery...