How addictive can watching reels on the mobile get? A nursing student in Ahmedabad was so hooked to it that to avoid writing exams and watch reels, she repeatedly whacked her right hand until it got fractured.Every day she compulsively spent an average 12 hours watching the short video formats.So shaken was she by the…
An Indian-origin man from the US has suggested that all H-1B visas should expire and holders should return to their home countries. Rohit Joy, who made this suggestion while replying to a post by Congressman Dr Rich McCormick on H-1B visas on the social media platform X (earlier Twitter), has faced criticism, primarily from Indians….
KOLKATA: A 45-year-old mountaineer from Bengal went missing on way down after summiting Mount Everest even as two others from the state scaled the world’s highest peak and made it back to their camp late Thursday.Subrata Ghosh probably disappeared in what is referred to by climbers as the “death zone”, near the summit, while descending…
A recent government rule impacted operations of Turkiye’s Celebi at nine Indian airports. Existing ground handling agencies stepped in to manage the workload. GMR Group made alternate arrangements at Goa’s Mopa airport. Over 10,000 Celebi employees were absorbed by other handlers like Bird Group and AISATS. Operations have stabilized with no major disruptions. NEW DELHI:…
NEW DELHI: Pulling the curtain down on a 25-year-old legal battle between the two factions of Iskcon over control of Hare Krishna temple and other assets in Bengaluru, Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Iskcon Bangalore will have control over it and quashed the Karnataka high court order in favour of Iskcon Mumbai.Noting that Iskcon…
P Chidambaram (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress veteran P Chidambaram has expressed concern that opposition INDIA bloc was no longer intact while stressing that an alliance was required to take on the ‘formidable’ BJP machinery that “controls from Election Commission to the lowest police station” — echoing concerns among many players in the anti-BJP grouping…
NEW DELHI: IIT-Roorkee has cancelled its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Inonu University, Turkiye, becoming the third central university after Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia to end academic ties with a Turkish university. Lovely Professional University (LPU), a private university, has terminated six MoUs with universities in Turkiye and Azerbaijan.Signed in Jan…
AHMEDABAD: A day after his arrest by Enforcement Directorate on money laundering charges in a 2023 complaint, Bahubali Shah, 73, director of Gujarat Samachar Ltd and Lok Prakashan Ltd, was granted interim bail until May 31 by a special PMLA court on Friday on health grounds.After ED sleuths brought Shah to VS Hospital for a…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday was irked by successive attempts through PIL to stop alleged deportation of Rohingya Muslims within a fortnight and told senior advocate Colin Gonsalves that he can’t be filing PIL after PIL on the same issue without any new fact to seek modification of SC’s May 8 decision refusing…
JK CM Omar Abdullah (File photo) NEW DELHI: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti may have slammed Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah over his call for reviving the Tulbul Navigation Project, but he has echoed India’s long-term interests, with experts flagging how its implementation will yield socio-economic benefits for the entire UT.The project, also known as…
