In Hindu mythology, mortals prayed and performed elaborate rituals to please Indra, the god of rain. Legend has it that musician Tansen’s melodious voice could summon showers from cloudless skies. Ordinary mortals, however, have neither the Ashvamedha yagna nor Tansen’s tenor. In modern India, a new kind of rainmaker relies on science, not song to…
NEW DELHI: With the resumption of direct flights between India and China, both countries are looking to resume the high-level mechanism for cultural and people-to-people exchanges early next year. The mechanism chaired by the foreign ministers has met twice so far – in 2018 and 2019 – and its resumption is key to advancing cooperation…
Venkatesh Garg & Bhanu Rana NEW DELHI: Indian security agencies have achieved a big breakthrough in their operations against criminals, with the detention of two of most-wanted gangsters -Venkatesh Garg and Bhanu Rana – operating from foreign soil. The detentions were made in Georgia and the US, marking a major success in the effort to…
Single-engine helicopters for four passengers cost around Rs 1.5 lakh an hour while twin-engine models come for Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4 lakh PATNA: Rotor blades beat over Bihar for weeks. Sky turned battleground. By Sunday evening, the helicopter armada fell silent as campaigning for the second phase of assembly elections shut down after…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday responded to the resignation of Tim Davie as Director‑General of the BBC. The MAGA chief thanked The Telegraph for “exposing corrupt journalists.“ On his social‑media platform Truth Social, he posted: “The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’…
SERAMPORE: A 27-year-old homemaker in Bengal’s Hooghly district consumed pesticide along with her six-year-old daughter in a suspected suicide attempt amid claims she did so as she was not given SIR forms and feared being struck off electoral rolls. Asha Soren was married eight years ago but had been staying with her parents in Kananadi…
Tim Davie resigned as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) director-general on Sunday as pressure mounted over a Panorama programme accused of cutting together Donald Trump’s words in a way that misled viewers, triggering one of the broadcaster’s biggest rows in years.Deborah Turness, the BBC’s CEO of News, has also resigned as anger grew inside the newsroom….
Five people were killed after a Russian Ka-226 helicopter crashed near the village of Achi-Su in the Republic of Dagestan on Friday. Footage circulating on social media shows the helicopter hitting the ground along the Caspian Sea’s shore, causing its tail to break off. The pilot apparently tries to regain control of the damaged aircraft…
NEW DELHI: A mob in Bihar’s Gopalganj set a police vehicle on fire after rumours claimed a bike rider was killed by a speeding car. The officer said three boys were riding a motorcycle when a Scorpio approached from the opposite direction. To avoid a collision, the bikers swerved and met with an accident. They…
NEW DELHI: The Army on Sunday said it successfully carried out Exercise Brahma Shira in the Rann and Creek Sector as part of the ongoing Tri-Services Exercise Trishul.In a post on X, the Army’s Additional Directorate General of Public Information (ADG PI) said the exercise brought together the Army, Navy, Air Force, Indian Coast Guard,…