NAINITAL: Two Indian Air Force airmen from Pathankot Air Force base drowned in Musatal lake in Bhimtal block, under the Chafi gram panchayat area of Nainital district, on Thursday afternoon while vacationing with six colleagues.Circle officer Pramod Sah said the group of eight, including four women personnel, had gone for an outing when the four…
DEHRADUN/BAGESHWAR: Landslides triggered by heavy and continuous rainfall across Uttarakhand have blocked roads at several places, disrupting normal life and severely affecting the Char Dham yatra. As per data from State Emergency Operation Centre, 113 roads, including two national highways, were blocked on Thursday. Chamoli district reported the highest number of road blockades at 23,…
Gujarat HC has issued a contempt notice to senior advocate Bhaskar Tanna after a video surfaced, showing him speaking on the phone and drinking from a beer mug during a virtual court hearing. The video, which quickly went viral, prompted the court to take suo motu cognizance of the matter, citing concerns over the dignity…
AGRA: Days before his bail plea, the district administration along with police in Mathura on Thursday invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against local builder Sunil Chen, main accused in a case involving an excavation that led to the collapse of five houses, including a multi-storey unit, in the city’s congested Maya Tila area…
JAMMU: A joint anti-terror operation in the densely forested belt of Kuchal-Chatroo in J&K’s Kishtwar district entered its second day Thursday, with security forces intensifying combing in the region to hunt two to three Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists believed trapped within the cordon.The operation was launched late Wednesday based on intelligence inputs about the movement of terrorists…
BENGALURU: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will roll out the first LCA Tejas Mk1A from its new Nashik production line by the end of July, with integration and test firing of the Astra air-to-air missile scheduled for early August, HAL CMD DK Sunil told TOI in an interview.The rollout from Nashik marks a key milestone in…
Several days into their mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the four Axiom-4 (Ax-4) astronauts, including Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla (Shux), are being closely monitored not just for scientific output, but for their own physiological adaptation to life in microgravity.Behind the scenes, a team led by Axiom Space flight surgeons is ensuring that every…
NEW DELHI: Pharma promoters may be competing fiercely in the market, but on Thursday they all rallied behind domestically- manufactured vaccines, including those for polio and Covid-19. Satish Reddy, chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Dilip Shanghvi, promoter and CMD of Sun Pharma, Pankaj Patel chairman and promoter of Zydus Lifesciences, and Torrent Pharma chairman Samir…
NEW DELHI: Odisha BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan was arrested on Thursday evening in connection with the assault on Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahu, Commissionerate Police confirmed.Pradhan, identified as the alleged kingpin in the case, was taken into custody from Jharpada and brought in for a medical check-up shortly after his arrest. With…
NEW DELHI: Are the NDA allies growing wary of Chirag Paswan? Speculation is swirling after Union minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manjhi warned that the Lok Janshakti Party leader would face consequences if he repeated his 2020 assembly poll strategy.Asked whether Chirag was trying to build pressure on the NDA over seat-sharing…