Month: May 2025

[ad_1] THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Four members of a family, including a father, mother and their two sons were found hanging at their home in Vakkom on Tuesday. Police suspect they committed suicide. Findings of a preliminary inquiry suggest a financial crisis could be the reason for the family taking the extreme step, police sources said.The deceased were identified as Anil Kumar, 55, his wife Sheeja, 50, and their sons Ashwin, 25, and Akash, 22.According to ward member Santhamma S, Sheeja had often spoken about the family's mounting debts. The financial strain began after they took a large home loan from a nationalised bank to renovate a house purchased a few years ago. "Matters worsened in 2019 when Ashwin was seriously injured in an accident, resulting in multiple fractures. He spent six months in the hospital, and the family incurred heavy medical expenses, […]

[ad_1] NOIDA: Two factories in Greater Noida were caught illegally packaging drinking water without a valid license. Following a tip-off, the food department raided the factories on Tuesday and seized 13,092 one-litre water bottles. Officials also took two samples for lab testing to check the water quality. Sarvesh Mishra, assistant commissioner of food, said the raids were part of a summer campaign to ensure safe drinking water. "We are checking if packaged drinking water in the market meets safety norms," he said. Gupta Enterprises, located at K-300, Site 5, Kasna industrial area, was found operating without a valid food licence and packaging water in one-litre bottles under the name of 'Bilseri', which closely resembles the name and appearance of a well-known brand. 6,252 bottles were found at the factory, of which one sample was taken, and the remaining 6,236 bottles […]

[ad_1] Seattle Orcas finished runners-up in the first season of the Major League Cricket and sixth in the second season. (Image: X/SeattleOrcas) New Delhi: Seattle Orcas CEO Hemant Dua believes USA's win over Pakistan in the 2024 T20 World Cup has played a pivotal role in helping cricket get its first foot in the door. The win helped USA cricket take a significant initial step towards achieving a goal, which, in the bigger picture, is to make the sport popular in a country where it is in unchartered territory."Cricket has grown overall. It was always on the straps for very long here, but it was more at the amateur level in the USA. The cricket board has gone through a lot of challenges. I think off late, ICC started investing in it and seeing cricket in the USA as the […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress on Wednesday indulged in a political slugfest after one Sena (UBT) leader vowed to blacken Rahul Gandhi's face for his 'derogatory' comments about freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.Nashik city unit chief of Sena (UBT), Bala Darade, slammed Rahul for calling Savarkar 'mafi-veer' and said that he will pelt stones at Congress leaders' convoy if he ever visits Nashik."We are proud that we live in the birthplace of Swatantrya-veer Savarkar. Rahul Gandhi's statement about Savarkar, calling him 'Mafi-veer', was insulting," Darade told a Marathi news channel on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the Hindutva ideologue."We condemn it strongly. We will blacken Rahul Gandhi's face if he comes to Nashik. If we cannot do that, we will pelt stones at his convoy," he added.Nashik-resident Devendra Bhutada has […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India is set to hold civil defence mock drills on Thursday across four states bordering Pakistan, including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir. The drills aim to test emergency response coordination and civilian evacuation strategies in case of cross-border hostilities or terror-related incidents.Government officials said the exercise would involve local civil defence teams, police, disaster response units, and medical staff. The drill is intended to test emergency response coordination, civilian evacuation protocols, and inter-agency communication in case of cross-border hostilities or terrorist incidentsThe mock drill comes just weeks after India launched Operation Sindoor on the night of May 6–7, a retaliatory strike reportedly targeting terror camps and military infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). The operation was a response to the terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22, which claimed the lives of […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi on Wednesday refuted Assam chief ministerHimanta Biswa Sarma's allegations regarding his British wife Elizabeth Colburn's alleged connection with Pakistan’s ISI, calling it the “plot of a C-grade Bollywood movie.”In his first public statement on the matter, Gogoi clarified that his wife spent only one year in Pakistan in 2013 while working on an international project focused on climate change in South Asia.“About 14–15 years ago, my wife — a well-known expert in public policy — was involved in an international initiative addressing climate change in South Asia. As part of that work, she spent a year in Pakistan and then came to India in 2012–13, where she has been working ever since. In 2015, she took up a new job,” the Congress leader said.“I accompanied her in 2013, about 12 years ago. The […]

[ad_1] CHANDIGARH: The city recorded its first Covid fatality on Wednesday as a 40-year-old patient from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, who was referred from Ludhiana, succumbed to the infection at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32. This marks a concerning development for Chandigarh, which had not reported a single Covid-19 case until now, even as the nation grapples with a fresh surge in infections.Dr. G.P. Thami, Medical Superintendent at GMCH, confirmed the death, stating that the patient, who worked in Ludhiana, was admitted to the hospital two days ago with severe respiratory problems. He tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and passed away early Wednesday morning."We tested him on the second day as he came with respiratory distress and was put on a ventilator," Dr. Thami explained. The patient was immediately placed in isolation within the hospital's Covid […]