Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130726086,imgsize-953724,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72/untitled-design-21.jpg" alt="In Gujarat, bouncers hired to watch screen addicts" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image AHMEDABAD: In Ahmedabad, parents of a 16-year-old girl have hired four bouncers in two shifts to guard her 24×7, spending about Rs 65,000 a month. The teenager, according to doctors, had become severely addicted to her phone and social...
Two FIRs against defector MP Pathak? Punjab cops won’t say
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724152,imgsize-742773,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-14.jpg" alt="Two FIRs against defector MP Sandeep Pathak? Punjab cops won’t say" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Punjab police are believed to have filed two FIRs against Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who switched from AAP to BJP a week ago along with six others.While sources close to govt confirmed the...
UP horror: Masked men enter baraat, shoot groom dead in Jaunpur
Spread the love VARANASI: What began as a celebration ended in tragedy on Friday night, when a 22-year-old groom was shot dead by three men on a motorcycle as his ‘baraat’ passed Badshahi Bazar in Jaunpur’s Khetasarai.Initial police investigation found that the prime accused, Pradeep Bind, has a long criminal history and named in other murder cases. He had a...
Election Commission releases final data: 4.88 crore people voted in Tamil Nadu
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724124,imgsize-959983,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-13.jpg" alt="Election Commission releases final data: 4.88 crore people voted in Tamil Nadu" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo CHENNAI: After a nine-day wait and just 48 hours before counting, EC released the absolute voter turnout for the April 23 election in Tamil Nadu, confirming that 4,87,98,833 voters (4.88 crore) participated in the exercise...
West Bengal elections: Ahead of counting, TMC & BJP spar over EVM security
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724107,imgsize-1618233,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-12.jpg" alt="West Bengal elections: Ahead of counting, TMC & BJP spar over EVM security" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo KOLKATA: Ahead of the May 4 counting of votes for the assembly elections, key rivals Trinamool and BJP in Bengal sparred and flagged incidents of ‘lax security and blacked-out CCTV footage’ at EVM strongrooms...
Government notifies FDI changes on China funds
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724069,imgsize-369084,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-10.jpg" alt="Government notifies FDI changes on China funds" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image NEW DELHI: The Centre has notified two crucial changes to foreign direct investment rules — the first relating to flows from neighbouring countries such as China and the second allowing up to 100% investment in insurance business — as it...
Bargi dam tragedy: MP tourism launched cruise despite high-wind forecast
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724046,imgsize-1704710,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-9.jpg" alt="Bargi dam tragedy: MP tourism launched cruise despite high-wind forecast" title=" Authorities said the search would go on till all passengers were accounted for ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Authorities said the search would go on till all passengers were accounted for JABALPUR/BHOPAL: Ignored wind warnings came under sharp scrutiny after the death toll in the Bargi...
India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130724034,imgsize-988160,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-8.jpg" alt="India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile with 1500km range, 10 Mach speed off Odisha coast" title=" India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile with 1500km range, 10 Mach speed off Odisha coast ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> India successfully conducts 2nd test of long-range hypersonic anti-ship missile with 1500km range,...
West Bengal polls: EC scraps Falta election, orders repolling on May 21
Spread the love <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130723924,imgsize-1491018,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-7.jpg" alt="West Bengal polls: Election Commission scraps Falta election, orders repolling on May 21" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo Bengal’s electoral outcome will now be decided on 293 seats after EC cancelled Saturday the April 29 polling in south Kolkata’s Falta constituency, citing “electoral offences and subversion of the democratic process”.A repoll has...
US electronics firm fined millions for failing to report defective ACs causing fires
Spread the love Representative Image Royal Sovereign International Inc, a New Jersey company that sold office and home electronic appliances, has been recently sentenced to pay $395,786 in restitution to victims and a criminal fine of $8 million for failing to report to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) dangerously defective Air Conditioners (ACs) allegedly linked to more than...
