Spread the love NEW DELHI: Bribes.fyi began as a side project and, within 48 hours, clocked 5 million requests and 2 lakh new users. It shut down as suddenly as its meteoric rise took social media by surprise.Built by 20-year-old Delhi BTech student Aryan Nishad, it displayed a neon-red map of India for anonymous reports of alleged bribe demands. By...
Meet Caden Pohlkamp, 7th grader who built an underwater robot to test ponds
Spread the love Caden Terence Pohlkamp (7th Grade, Brookside Intermediate School, Friendswood, TX) A Texas seventh-grader has built a remote-controlled underwater robot to test water quality in 12 suburban neighbourhood ponds, finding that artificial fountains can help create healthier aquatic ecosystems. Caden Terence Pohlkamp, a student at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas, designed and used the submersible device...
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sworn in as Bangladesh’s 23rd President
Spread the love Alamgir visited the graves of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman and former PM Khaleda Zia before the ceremony. He has been a close political ally of Khaleda Zia, the former BNP chief. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was sworn in as Bangladesh’s 23rd President on Friday, taking charge as the country’s head of state after defeating his lone rival...
US seized California island ranch after $4m offer; jury awarded family $12.7m
Spread the love Santa Cruz Island A federal jury in Los Angeles ordered the United States government to pay $12.7 million (£7.8 million) to a California family after it seized their 6,300-acre ranch on Santa Cruz Island. The verdict, delivered in February 1999 after a three-week trial, ended a decades-long property dispute between federal park officials and attorney Francis Gherini,...
FDA shuts Radio Club, Khar Gymkhana, McDonald’s Colaba kitchens over hygiene violations
Spread the love Large-scale infestation of live flies was found in various areas of the kitchen. MUMBAI: The FDA suspended the food business licence of The Bombay Presidency Radio Club and the registration certificate of Khar Gymkhana over severe hygiene, structural and food safety violations.Both establishments had failed to ensure proper waste management and pest control and had not maintained...
‘Being Pullela Gopichand’s daughter is a big baggage’: Coach B Sumeeth Reddy
Spread the love India’s Treesa Jolly, front right, and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela, left, celebrate with the latter’s father and their coach Pullela Gopichand after winning a women’s doubles quarterfinal badminton match against China’s Jia Yi Fan and Zhang Shu Xian, unseen, at the BWF World Championships, at IGI Stadium, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: For B Sumeeth Reddy,...
‘FIR only after Shah’s OK’: Rahul on case lodged over protester’s pellet injury
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the FIR registered over student protester Sahil Lochab’s alleged pellet-gun injury during the July 20 march is the “first step towards justice”.Showing a copy of the FIR, the Congress leader claimed that the “final okay” for registering the case had to come from home Secretary...
1 dead, 3 injured after building collapses during demolition work in Karol Bagh
Spread the love The incident occurred on Pyare Lal Road in Regarpura, central Delhi at around 11.15am, when labourers were demolishing an old structure. (IANS) NEW DELHI: A labourer died while three others suffered injuries when a two-storey building collapsed during demolition work carried out by a private contractor in the Karol Bagh area on Friday, news agency PTI reported.As...
India new ‘swing supplier’ for refined oil products. Can it sustain?
Spread the love Oil products now account for a much larger share of India’s exports to several destinations. India’s oil-products export map is expanding and the country is fast emerging as an important ‘swing supplier’ in the world’s refined fuel markets as the Middle East crisis continues to disrupt flows.As TOI recently reported, Singapore has become India’s third-largest goods export...
‘A border state’: Akali leader fuels buzz over SAD-BJP reunion, gives this reason
Spread the love BJP-SAD alliance buzz has grown ahead of next year’s assembly polls. NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday said that people in Punjab want his party to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party for the upcoming polls.Majithia cited Punjab’s status as a border state and the need to protect social harmony...
