Kalpana Tiwari and children with husband Vivek Tiwari (38) LUCKNOW: Nearly eight years after Apple area sales manager Vivek Tiwari (38) was shot dead by a police constable in Lucknow, a sessions court on Monday sentenced constable Prashant Kumar Chaudhary to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.Sessions Judge Malkhan … Read more
Congress convoy ‘attacked’ in Assam NEW DELHI: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Monday alleged that a convoy of party leaders, including himself, was pelted with stones in Assam by people he described as “BJP workers.”Gogoi, who is from Assam, said former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and Sivamoni Bora, the party’s candidate for the upcoming … Read more
Employee’s bond with security guard at new workplace wins hearts Not every memorable workplace connection starts with a long conversation. Sometimes, it begins with a small act of help and grows through the everyday moments that follow.That is what happened with Komal Kothawale after she moved to Pune for work. She recently shared the story … Read more
PC: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Discarded oyster shells are being given a second life along the Texas coast, where researchers used them to rebuild reefs. A final report describes how the ‘Sink Your Shucks’ programme collected more than 650,000 pounds of shells from restaurants and oyster farms during the period. Reclaimed shells, once quarantined, … Read more
Bitcoin prices reached their highest level since January as cryptocurrency market watchers question whether this is the end of the “crypto winter” and the start of a “crypto spring.” Bitcoin surged more than $4,000, or about 5 percent, to above $85,000 before the opening bell to kick off the trading week. The digital token has … Read more
The entire 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail corridor is scheduled to be completed by December 2030. Even as it builds the country’s first high-speed train set for the first time, Indian Railways has already set the ball rolling for another set of bullet trains that will run at 350 kmph.India is planning to develop and manufacture … Read more
CANDID MOMENT: Double silver medallist Elavenil Valarivan takes a selfie with India’s men’s 10m air rifle medal-winning trio. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s wait for a gold medal continued on Day 2 of the Asian Games 2026, but four more podium finishes lifted the country’s tally to six as shooting once again led the charge … Read more
Quote of the day by Agatha Christie: ‘Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more,’ a life lesson on prioritising self-preservation from the ‘Queen of Crime'(Photo: X/@agathachristie) Agatha Christie is one of the world’s most well-known authors. … Read more
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister and MLA from Kunda in Pratapgarh, Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, received relief on Saturday after a special CBI court in Lucknow accepted the agency’s closure report in the 2013 murder case of deputy superintendent of police Zia-ul-Haq, who was then serving as … Read more
UP minister OP Rajbhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh minister Om Prakash Rajbhar has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured him that the state would be divided into four parts, reviving a nearly two-decade-old debate over dividing the country’s most populous state.Rajbhar, who heads BJP ally Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), claimed that … Read more