Men gather on a street in R K Nagar, where residents say public drinking after 6.30pm has led to safety concerns Chennai: Every evening after 6.30 pm, Kesavan Street, 10th Cross Street, and VOC Market Road in R K Nagar turn into public drinking hotspots, leaving residents anxious about their safety. Around 15 to 20…

Annu Kapoor plays a Vastu-believing physics professor in Uttar Da Puttar, a role that contrasts sharply with his personal beliefs. Calling himself an atheist, the veteran actor says respecting every religion and portraying characters with opposing worldviews are not contradictory but an integral part of an actor’s craft. Annu Kapoor believes an actor’s personal beliefs…

Wealth is one of life’s necessities. But it is not life’s goal. If wealth is necessary to fulfill life’s material requirements, then it must be acquired as the mainstay of human existence. But if wealth is projected as life’s goal and its ever-increasing acquisition is considered the most important task, then it can become a…

Dhanbad: Former Jharkhand minister, senior Congress functionary and former Dhanbad MLA Mannan Mallik passed away on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Ranchi, four days after being convicted in the high-profile 2011 Matkuria firing case.Chief minister Hemant Soren, including scores of political functionaries cutting across party lines, offered their condolences. Soren, along…

NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government on Tuesday withdrew its appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta high court’s May 2024 judgment that struck down the inclusion of 77 communities, including 75 Muslim communities, in the state’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.The Supreme Court allowed the withdrawal after the state informed the court that…

Sonu Kumar Gupta from Gopalganj died after two UAE-linked tankers came under a missile attack in the Strait of Hormuz Patna: A marine engineer from Bihar’s Gopalganj district was killed after two UAE-linked tankers came under a missile attack near the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE ministry of defence confirmed.Sonu Kumar Gupta, a resident of…

Tasmanian devils face extinction due to contagious cancers and shrinking genetic diversity. Scientists are mapping genetic diversity to identify natural resistance in the species. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons For the Tasmanian devil, time is running short as the species faces shrinking genetic diversity. As the largest living carnivorous marsupial, the species has spent three decades…

Patna: Training for officials and personnel engaged in Bankipur assembly byelection began at the collectorate here on Tuesday, with election authorities conducting the first phase for master trainers on the operation of electronic voting machines (EVMs), voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) units and other polling procedures.The training for master trainers will continue till Wednesday. They…