Spread the love Soldiers playing football in No-Man’s Land a year after the Christmas Truce in 1914 (Photo Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images) On Christmas morning in 1914, something happened that no military plan could have predicted and no weapon could have forced. In the middle of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, soldiers laid...
VHT: ‘It was Sachin Tendulkar’ – Shashi Tharoor makes bold Vaibhav Sooryavanshi claim
Spread the love Sachin Tendulkar and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photos) NEW DELHI: India’s cricket world has found a new talking point, and his name is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. At just 14 years old, the young batter continues to stun fans, experts, and former players with performances that feel almost unreal for his age. His latest heroics in domestic cricket have once...
B’day outing turns nightmare: IT manager ‘gang raped’ in CEO’s car; survivor recall horror
Spread the love Representative Image UDAIPUR: A manager at a private IT company alleged that she was gang-raped by her company’s CEO and an executive head’s husband in a moving car, the city police said Wednesday. The manager alleged that the woman executive head was also present in the vehicle when the gang-rape and molestation occurred. All three accused were...
Navi Mumbai airport opens today with 30 domestic flights
Spread the love Navi Mumbai airport opens today with 30 domestic flights (Picture credit: PTI) MUMBAI: Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) opens to commercial operations on Thursday after years of missed deadlines, opening a second gateway for air travel in the Mumbai region.The day will see four airlines operating about 30 domestic flights at India’s newest greenfield airport. The first...
India logs steep decline in TB, malaria and maternal deaths
Spread the love Representative image NEW DELHI: India has recorded steep declines in malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child deaths, signalling what the government calls a decisive, results-driven phase in the country’s public-health journey.Addressing the Advancing Public Health Outcomes Forum 2025 on Wednesday, Union health minister JP Nadda said the gains were based on sustained political commitment, strong scientific capacity and...
Bangladesh unrest: Acted mute to save myself – Indian Tabla player recalls trauma
Spread the love Representative image KOLKATA: Tabla player Mainak Biswas and photographer Kallab Ghosh, who accompanied Sarod player Shiraz Ali Khan for his December 19 concert at Chhayanaut in Bangladesh, found themselves in a precarious situation in Dhaka after the event was cancelled.Recounting 48 hours of intense anxiety they endured before finally managing to return home on December 22, Biswas...
‘My son survived, but he can’t see or walk’: Deadly cough syrup victim’s dad recounts ordeal
Spread the love Representative image BHOPAL: “My son survived, but he returned to me without his sight,” said Tikku Yaduvanshi (36), his voice breaking as he recalled the 116 days his five-year-old son had battled for life after consuming the toxic cough syrup Coldrif in Parasia town, in MP’s Chhindwara district.“He cannot see, he cannot walk properly, and I cannot...
Foreign court divorce binding if one spouse stays abroad, says Calcutta high court
Spread the love File photo (Picture credit: ANI) KOLKATA: Foreign courts can hear divorce and maintenance proceedings of a marriage solemnised in India if one of the spouses resides in that country, the Calcutta high court has said while setting aside a lower court order putting an injunction on a UK district court order in favour of the wife.In its...
India test fires 3,500-km missile from nuclear submarine
Spread the love NEW DELHI: India tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile called K-4, which is designed to hit targets 3,500-km away, from the nuclear-powered submarine INS Arighaat in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday.There was no official word from the defence ministry on the missile test conducted off the coast of Visakhapatnam from the 6,000-tonne INS Arighaat, which is operated...
Isro delivers its heaviest punch as Bahubali puts BlueBird into orbit
Spread the love Isro delivers its heaviest punch as Bahubali puts BlueBird into orbit SRIHARIKOTA: Baahubali sent BlueBird to the heavens. India’s space ambitions gained new heights and heft. Isro capped 2025 with a flawless heavy-lift statement Wednesday, as its LVM3 rocket — nicknamed Baahubali — hurled the US communications satellite BlueBird Block-2 into low Earth orbit, the heaviest spacecraft...
