Ankit Kumar, one of the four accused arrested in the Hapur road rage death case. MEERUT:Nearly two weeks after 24-year-old pickup driver Mohd Azim died following an alleged assault by a group of kanwariyas enraged by a road accident on NH-9 in Hapur, police have added murder charge to the FIR and arrested four accused … Read more
Kolkata’s vexillologist, Sekhar Chakrabarti, sheds light on the city’s deep-rooted connections to the Indian national flag KOLKATA: As the Har Ghar Tiranga initiative renewed public focus on the national flag, Kolkata-based vexillologist Sekhar Chakrabarti dug into his years of research to highlight the city’s lesser-known links with the evolution of the Tricolour.Chakrabarti, a retired engineer … Read more
No injuries were reported after the train flipped on its side (Representative image) A passenger train derailed and flipped to its side near Lewes in East Sussex, southern England, on Thursday, disrupting several rail routes in the area.Network Rail said a Southern service came off the tracks in the Lewes area shortly before 4 pm … Read more
When Lauren Iraeta and her husband bought an old waterfront house, they expected to spend their weekends repairing timber and replacing outdated plumbing.Instead, after a 10-month renovation, the 44-year-old real estate agent became a historical investigator. She began researching the people who had lived in the house and reconnecting their descendants with forgotten family items … Read more
AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal Guwahati: Opposition unity in Assam suffered yet another setback as AIUDF rejected Congress’s alliance call for the Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll.AIUDF president Badruddin Ajmal announced former All Assam Minorities Students’ Union leader Rejaul Karim Sarkar as the party’s candidate for the bypoll, likely to be held later this year.Earlier, Congress leader … Read more
The damaged statue of Netaji in New Alipore Kolkata: Tension erupted in New Alipore on Thursday morning after a bust of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was found vandalised at the Battala three-point crossing, near Tollygunge Circular Road and around 300 metres from the New Alipore Circle petrol pump.Local residents discovered the damaged statue in the … Read more
Manvith, a class V student of Zilla Panchayat Higher Primary School, Narikombu in Bantwal Mangaluru: A class V student of Zilla Panchayat Higher Primary School, Narikombu in Bantwal has earned praise for his presence of mind after his swift action helped prevent a potentially serious accident involving a midday meal worker.The incident occurred around 9am … Read more
Scarlett Tiani and her amazing journey from a 5th-grade Invention Convention project at Tracey Magnet School to the national stage A pet safety system created by a Connecticut middle school student to protect postal workers, delivery drivers, neighbours, and pets has received national recognition and legal support for a US patent application.Scarlett Tiani, a sixth-grade … Read more
View of Ford Cove where shoreline restoration is underway. Credit: InSite Design Studios, Inc. A major environmental restoration project is removing decades of artificial concrete shoreline defences along Michigan’s Lake St. Clair and replacing them with natural wetlands, living shorelines and fish habitat.The $7 million project at the historic Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate is … Read more
MUMBAI: Parle Products retained its position as India’s Most Chosen In-Home FMCG brand for the 14th consecutive year, while Britannia once again topped the Out-of-Home rankings, showed the annual Brand Footprint India report published by Worldpanel by Numerator on Thursday.The study tracks Consumer Reach Points (CRP), a measure combining how many consumers buy a brand … Read more