Kolkata: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) has sent an urgent appeal to the West Bengal chief minister, urging the govt to replace horse-drawn tourist carriages used for joyrides around Kolkata’s Maidan and Victoria Memorial with heritage-style electric carriages after three new horse-cruelty FIRs and the recent death of Indian tourist…
There’s no denying that with age human memory often fades away, and it is no less than a riddle for medical science to understand: Why does Alzheimer’s completely destroy one person’s memory while leaving another person totally sharp? It is a well-known fact that two people can have the exact same amount of physical disease…
The chief minister was also briefed on proposals to establish dedicated tourism special economic zones Visakhapatnam: Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu reviewed the proposed Visakhapatnam Economic Region (VER) from Amaravati on Monday. The VER is being planned with Visakhapatnam as its hub, based on proposals from NITI Aayog and the recommendations of the state govt.VMRDA…
NEW DELHI: India is likely to face a greater impact on its energy system from this year’s El Nino than any other country, according to a new report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).The report said the transition from La Nina to El Nino between July 2026 and June 2027…
Delhi-Doon eway suffers fresh damage as embankment near Gangnauli village in Baghpat caves in. Baghpat: Days after two alloy-wrecking potholes on the newly inaugurated Rs 12,000-crore Delhi-Dehradun Expressway left authorities red-faced, a fresh damage to an embankment of the busy highway near Gangnauli village in UP’s Baghpat has sparked another major row.A cavity developed near…
S Valli and her husband are one of several thousand homeless in Chennai, who live under bridges and flyovers; most are either street performers or guest workers Muskaan.Ahmed@timesofindia.comEvery few minutes, a train rattles past Velachery railway station as passing vehicles kick up clouds of dust into S Valli’s “home”. The 40-year-old lives under the flyover…
CHENNAI: AIADMK leader KBS Raja, a cousin of party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami, resigned from the party along with his supporters on Monday.Raja, who served as the deputy general secretary of the party’s MGR Manram, claimed he had worked for the AIADMK for 30 years but was denied an Assembly election ticket on two occasions….
Mumbai: Within two hours of forgetting his bag full of cash in an autorickshaw, a man got the money back thanks to the Dahisar police.On July 4, Borivli resident Pravin Javale was travelling in an auto from Dahisar to Andheri. He was carrying a bag containing Rs 10 lakh in cash. He forgot the bag…
Five idols stolen from TN temples recovered in Karaikal, two heldTNNPuducherry: The Karaikal town police have arrested two people and recovered five ancient idols from their possession that were stolen from temples in Tamil Nadu. Police seized their car used for transporting the stolen antiques and their mobile phones.Acting on a tip-off, a special police…
Foundation seeks CM’s nod for Baba Gouda statue, university renamingHubballi: The Raitashree Baba Gouda Patil Agriculture Foundation-Karnataka has urged the state government to fulfil several of its demands ahead of Farmers’ Martyrs’ Day. Speaking to reporters in Hubballi on Monday, foundation Dharwad district coordinator B.C. Patil said a statue of freedom fighter and farmers’ leader…