VS Rathanvel, India’s 99th Grandmaster NEW DELHI: Last July, the congratulations arrived all at once. Reports and chess pages across India carried the same news that VS Rathanvel, a 25-year-old from Coimbatore, had crossed 2500 at the Guwahati Smart City International Open and become the country’s 99th Grandmaster (GM). It looked as if his four-year…
LDA enforcement team demolished parts of the house on Thursday Lucknow: A gun, one country-made firearm, one pistol, one rifle, a revolver and 20 live cartridges were recovered during a demolition drive carried out by the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Thursday at the residence of Rishabh Shukla, the prime accused in the Oct 26…
Several factors are working to drive the current rally, the most important one being expectations of relief on long term capital gains (LTCG) tax for investors. Indian equity markets recorded their sharpest single-day rise in seven months on Thursday, supported by a decline in oil prices following the Democrats’ sweeping victory in the US midterm…
General:The Moon positioned in Virgo within your eighth house shapes the entire day, indicating Chandrashtama and encouraging a steady, measured approach. Allow some flexibility for possible delays instead of cramming a packed agenda. Meanwhile, your ruler Saturn, retrograde in Pisces in the second house, signals the concluding stage of Sade Sati. This extended phase calls for…
What Is a Planetary Station in Astrology? Meaning, Types and Effects Explained Tuesday digs below the surface. The Moon enters Scorpio, its sign of debilitation, where feelings run deep but rarely come out cleanly. The post-festival calm may break with an unexpected confession, a forgotten debt, or a family matter kept quiet for years. Debilitated…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party’s Maan Singh Yadav recorded the highest victory margin among the 11 constituencies in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council biennial elections, defeating BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rathore by 27,663 votes in the Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ constituency, according to the final results released by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday. Yadav secured…
New Delhi: Delhi University’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) has discharged an assistant professor with immediate effect following a nearly two-year inquiry into allegedly objectionable content in political science study material prepared and reviewed by him.The inquiry flagged references to beef consumption, Manusmriti and Apastamba Dharmasutra in the context of untouchability, besides derogatory…
A 37-year-old man died of electrocution while trying to retrieve a T-shirt that had fallen onto the balcony of a building opposite his apartment in Vijay Nagar, Nalasopara East Nalasopara: A 37-year-old man died of electrocution while trying to retrieve a T-shirt that had fallen onto the balcony of a building opposite his apartment in…
A tragic fire erupted at a shoe factory in Mangolpuri on Friday night, ensnaring several employees within its flames; family members at hospital in Delhi NEW DELHI: Friday, 9.20pm. The second shift was about to start. Six labourers at a shoe factory in Mangolpuri were working overtime as they had been for the past few…
Rahul Gandhi does not travel abroad to seek foreign intervention or disparage his homeland, Pitroda said NEW DELHI: Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) chairman Sam Pitroda on Wednesday hit out at the BJP over its criticism of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi‘s foreign visits, calling it a “worn-out political bogey”.“Every single time Rahul Gandhi steps outside India,…
