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CHENNAI: A number of flights were unable to land at Chennai airport on Wednesday morning due to dense smoke from Bhogi festival celebrations, officials said. Runway visibility dropped to around 300 metres from 7:00am and remained low until 8:00am, temporarily affecting flight operations. Authorities said conditions were expected to improve later in the day. The…
KOLKATA: A hippopotamus at Alipore zoo, unable to move probably because of a neurological disease or a leg injury, has stayed put in a pool of water in its enclosure for the past fortnight and refused to leave even in the evening for its night sheltera sharp departure from its normal routine.Zoo authorities have set…
FARIDABAD: Two days after she was raped, savagely assaulted and pushed out of a moving van, leaving her with deep trauma injuries to her face, a 25-year-old Faridabad resident has not been able to give her statement to police.With stitches on her face, besides other trauma injuries, she is under doctors’ close watch in hospital….
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of poll rolls, two Booth Level Officers (BLOs) died in Uttar Pradesh. While 46-year-old Sarvesh Singh hanged himself in Moradabad’s Baheri village, a woman BLO named Shobharani died of cardiac arrest in Bijnor.According to news agency PTI, Sarvesh Singh confessed to feeling suffocated and said there…
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Saturday accused the Congress of insulting the people’s mandate and looking for excuses to hide its failure, even as the opposition party charged the Election Commission with partisanship following its massive loss in the Bihar election.The attack from the party came on a day the Congress continued to be in…
While most people want earn more money and be rich, not everyone is able to do so. But, what is it that makes some people successful and richer than others, which sets them apart from the rest? And, can money truly buy happiness or is there more to life?Talking about these issues and what financial…
Sheffield Wednesday is now on -6 points after being hit with the points deduction (Danny Lawson/PA via AP) Struggling Championship side Sheffield Wednesday have entered administration, triggering an automatic 12-point deduction under English Football League (EFL) regulations. The decision leaves the club at the bottom of the table on minus six points, 15 adrift of…
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) faced a downtime earlier today, leaving thousands of users looking to book tickets ahead of Diwali and Chahath Puja, clueless. The website shows a message which said that the server is temporarily unable due to service requests.Nevertheless, the platform is now up and running. IRCTC down: What exactly…
Unable to speak, move 17 yrs ago, now close to doc dream NEW DELHI: When he was one-and-a-half years old, he was fighting for his life in an ICU, unable to move or speak after a severe brain infection left him paralysed on one side and impaired his hearing. Seventeen years later, Vansh Kumar has…
Rising musician D4vd has cancelled tour dates as Los Angeles police continue to investigate the death of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, whose dismembered body was found in a car registered to him.TMZ reports that the 23-year-old artist pulled out of his San Francisco and Los Angeles shows scheduled for this weekend. He had previously cancelled his…
