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Kolkata: Continuous dry spells helped the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) wrap up the repairs of major roads across the city. Simultaneously, the KMC sewerage and drainage department is making all preparations to combat waterlogging in the event of rainfall during Durga Puja, which starts on Sept 28.The KMC drainage department will keep in touch with…
Karishma Sharma, known for Ragini MMS Returns and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, met with an accident on Wednesday while travelling by local train in Mumbai. Dressed in a sari and heading for a shoot at Churchgate, she panicked when her friends couldn’t catch the moving train and jumped off. The fall left her with a…
In 2013 California, J.C. Penney’s Michael Graves-designed Bells and Whistles kettle billboard sparked Hitler comparisons/ Image: X In late May 2013, a roadside billboard in Culver City, California, advertising a stainless-steel tea kettle for US retailer J.C. Penney unexpectedly became the centre of an online storm. The advert, positioned beside the busy 405 Freeway, featured…
17-year-old boy in the Netherlands temporarily lost the ability to speak his native Dutch after waking from knee surgery/ Representative image When a 17-year-old boy in the Netherlands woke up from routine knee surgery, hospital staff initially noticed something unusual but not alarming. Instead of speaking Dutch, his native language, he was communicating only in…
Pune: An umbrella body of homeopathic doctors’ associations in the state has written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis justifying the registration of the homeopaths, who have completed the one-year certificate course in modern pharmacology (BHMS-CCMP), with the Maharashtra Medical Council. The letter sent on Friday claimed that the Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) objections are based…
More than a dozen employees have walked out of the Heritage Foundation, triggering one of the most serious internal crises in the organisation’s recent history. The departures follow mounting backlash against Heritage president Kevin Roberts after he defended a controversial interview by Tucker Carlson with far-right activist Nick Fuentes, a figure widely condemned for antisemitic…
Thiruvananthapuram: The appointment of retired Justice Babu Mathew P Joseph as the chairman of the professional course fee regulatory authority sparked a controversy. Save Education Campaign Committee (SUCC) chairman and the petitioner in the CMDRF misuse case alleged that the appointment of the retired Lok Ayukta judge was against the rules.In a petition to chief…
Nagpur: As the body of 14-year-old Saanvi Khobragade was lowered onto the metal platform for the final journey to Nara Ghat crematorium, her mother Sonali fainted, overcome with grief. The Khobragade couple stood shattered as the tragedy of their young daughter’s untimely death unfolded before them.Saanvi, a Class IX student, was killed after suffering multiple…
UVB-76 transmitted clustered coded signals in December as NATO–Russia tensions intensified In the second week of December, a Cold War–era Russian shortwave radio station broke from its usual pattern. Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages, including clusters of words, strings of…
Mangaluru: The Palakkad railway division gave in-principle approval for a new LPG siding at Panambur, New Mangalore Port, proposed by AEGIS Vopak. Once completed, the facility is expected to handle one million tonnes of LPG annually, equivalent to two rakes per day. Officials said the detailed engineering scale plan is currently under examination.At present, only…
