Varanasi: Sindhora police and Special Operations Group-2 raided a house in Sindhora Bazaar late on Monday and seized over 500 kg of finished and semi-finished firecrackers, along with raw explosive materials.Sindhora police station in-charge Pankaj Kumar Pandey said on Tuesday that acting on a tip-off about illegal firecracker manufacturing and storage, a team raided the…
pic only for representation Palghar: A 16-metre-long baleen whale was found dead on the beach near Chikhale Creek bridge in Dahanu taluka on Sunday morning. A forest department team rushed to the spot and collected samples from the carcass. The whale was later buried near the shoreline using an excavator.According to forest officials, the male…
MEA slams US court summons to Doval, RAW ex-chief Goel New Delhi: Govt on Tuesday dismissed a US court civil summons naming national security adviser Ajit Doval and former R&AW chief Samant Goel as a “frivolous lawsuit” driven by “fabricated and malicious” claims, asserting that designated Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s legal maneuvering did not…
Anthropic is planning its market debut under symbol “ANT” Anthropic’s proposed initial public offering (IPO), which could have raised nearly $70 billion, was briefly outlined in a securities filing circulated to banks before the artificial intelligence company retracted the pricing details.An Anthropic representative sent bankers a copy of a filing showing plans to offer around…
Uttar Pradesh has rolled out cylinder refill subsidies for 1.89 crore families, highlighting the Ujjwala Yojana’s impact (Representative image) – Prof. Deepti Taneja, Economist, Delhi UniversityAYODHYA: In an era long past, when Maryada Purushottam Lord Shri Ram returned to his birthplace Ayodhya after completing fourteen years of arduous exile in the forest and vanquishing Ravana’s…
NEW DELHI: Quashing an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) case against a Congress MLA and others, the Karnataka high court said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) “is not a super cop” empowered to investigate anything and everything that comes to its notice.The ruling came in a batch of petitions arising from an ED investigation into alleged…
With just days to go before the worldwide release of ‘Ramayana: Rise of a Legend’, the makers have sent out a special goody box curated to mark the occasion. The hamper features a copy of The Ramayana, alongside other film-themed collectables, while including invitations to be warriors in the world of the upcoming epic. ‘Ramayana’…
Prayagraj: An FIR has been registered against BJP corporator Vinay Mishra and others at Daraganj police station for allegedly slapping a party worker during the party’s Prabudh Mahakumbh at Parade.DCP (city) Sagar Jain told TOI that the complainant, Rohit Tiwari, a resident of Koraon, alleged that Allahapur corporator Mishra and his supporters slapped him when…
NEW DELHI: India is looking to attract at least three large semiconductor equipment makers and five major suppliers of chemicals and gases under Semicon 2.0. Union electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said he would judge the programme’s success by whether India could bring those companies in.He described the target as ambitious, saying the precision…
Mumbai’s mangrove cover has decreased significantly, with a loss of approximately 30.20 square kilometers recorded (Representative image) MUMBAI: The city has lost nearly one-fifth of its mangrove cover in 18 years, raising concerns over the survival of natural fish nurseries that sustain coastal biodiversity and support fishing communities.Between 2006 and 2024, mangrove cover along the…
