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6 low-water plants that can handle brutal sidewalk heat. Image credit – Gemini The small area near the sidewalk might be one of the most challenging areas for gardening. Hellstrips are the areas located between streets and sidewalks that reflect high temperatures, dry up quickly, and usually feature compacted soil. However, just because gardening is…
KOLKATA: For 50-year-old Benji, the anguish of disenfranchisement has brought with it the heartbreak of being orphaned again.An orphan from Kerala, his home for the past 27 years has been his employer’s family in Beleghata. But the Election Commission’s diktat has severed his ‘formal’ link with octogenarian Padmarani Baral, who he considers his mother. During…
Benji busy preparing a dish at his adoptive family’s eatery in Kolkata KOLKATA: Born into loss in Kerala, raised without memory of parents, and finding a home after decades of drift, 50-year-old Benjamin – “Benji” in Kolkata’s Beleghata – says the state has made him an orphan again. EC’s SIR of electoral rolls has struck…
PATNA: In a suspected case of suicide, four Jain pilgrims from Karnataka— a woman, her two daughters and a son — were found dead under mysterious circumstances at a Jain ‘dharamshala’ at Rajgir in Nalanda district on Friday morning.The bodies were found inside their room that had been locked from inside. Patna: 1409 Special Trains…
Aryna Sabalenka (L) and Nick Kyrgios attend a press conference prior to the Battle of the Sexes match between Nick Kyrgios of Australia and Aryna Sabalenka at Atlantis The Royal on December 27, 2025 in Dubai, UAE. (Photo/Getty Images) Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios will meet in the “Battle of the Sexes” on Sunday, but…
King Charles boots Prince Andrew out of Windsor home, strips all titles Britain’s King Charles has taken the extraordinary step of stripping his younger brother, Prince Andrew, of all his remaining titles and honours and ordering him to vacate his Windsor residence, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday.The decision came after weeks of pressure on the…
NEW DELHI: Chaos broke out when a 24-year-old man arrested in an arms smuggling case stripped and began singing and dancing obscenely inside a police lockup in south Kolkata, police said Wednesday.The incident took place at the Ekbalpore police station, where the accused, Mohammad Shahbaz, was being held after his arrest on Monday.“His actions last…
