The man had previously been charged with rape and sodomy of a drugged victim. An illegal immigrant working as an agricultural labourer in Southern California has been arrested after US border authorities said he had previously faced multiple serious criminal charges, including rape and sodomy of a drugged victim.US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) El…
Indian Bank has identified 725 branches as Gold Shoppe branches with dedicated staff and enhanced customer service facilities. The bank has added 982 empanelled appraisers in the past six months, taking the total to 3,538. CHENNAI/MUMBAI: Banks are strengthening branch-level gold loan capabilities by adding appraisers, investing in testing equipment and digitising processing as demand…
A river otter dragged a toddler into the water and bit his mother at Bremerton Marina in 2024. The family has now reached a $350,000 settlement with the Port of Bremerton. (representative image) A Washington family has reached a $350,000 settlement after a rare river otter attack at Bremerton Marina left a toddler injured and…
MCC NEET UG counselling 2026 schedule revised The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has revised the NEET UG Counselling 2026 Round 1 schedule, on the official website, mcc.nic.in. The revised timeline covers registration, fee payment, choice filling, choice locking, seat allotment and reporting at allotted medical and dental colleges.Under the updated schedule, the NEET UG Counselling…
Ayurveda experts and education leaders to gather at Pune’s ‘Conversation with Legends’ programme PUNE: Prachin Sanhita Gurukul will organise ‘Conversation with Legends’, an interactive programme conceptualised by Vaidya Dr Harish Patankar, on July 19 from 5 pm to 9 pm at Shri Ganesh Hall, New English School, Tilak Road. The event will feature interactions with…
“I’ve never experienced anything like this. The images are still burned into my mind.” For Laotian tourist Kan Kutirat, the horror unfolded in minutes as flames and thick smoke engulfed a packed Bangkok pub. He managed to carry one woman to safety and later wrote on Facebook: “I could only get one person out. I…
Sonakshi Sinha loses cool at paparazzi outside event, says ‘jab tak aap nahi jaoge, main car me nahi baithungi’ Sonakshi Sinha has once again voiced her displeasure over intrusive paparazzi behaviour. After attending Akansha Ranjan and Sharan Sharma‘s wedding reception in Mumbai, the actress firmly asked photographers to stop following her as she made her…
Amitabh Bachchan’s life-threatening accident during the filming of ‘Coolie’ in 1982 remains one of the most unforgettable moments in Indian cinema. The actor sustained a severe abdominal injury and a ruptured spleen after a mistimed action sequence with co-star Puneet Issar. He was briefly declared clinically dead before doctors performed emergency surgeries that saved his…
Educationist and activist Sonam Wangchuk NEW DELHI: Scientist and activist Sonam Wangchuk on Tuesday received permission from the Delhi high court to be shifted from Safdarjung Hospital to a private hospital, amid his prolonged hunger strike over the alleged NEET paper leak.The court’s decision came after Wangchuk’s wife, Gitanjali Angmo, challenged a Single Judge’s order…
NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Chandigarh has ordered IndiGo Airlines and Turkish Airlines to jointly pay over Rs 1.6 lakh to a man after finding that he and his son were left stranded in Delhi because of a disruption in their codeshare flight, forcing them to buy expensive last-minute tickets to the US…
