Close scrutiny: Investigators after visiting the Air India plane crash site in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Several international investigating agencies have reached Ahmedabad to assist India’s apex body for probing air crashes, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), with the inquiry into last week’s Air India Boeing 787 crash that
New Delhi, Jun 15 (PTI) Unrelenting heatwave across north and east regions has spiked sales of room air-conditioners (RAC) in June, but intermittent rains in several part of the country amid peak demand season have forced the industry players to lower sales projections to 10-15 per cent for this year. The summer, which is the
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NDRF and SDRF personnel at the spot after a helicopter crashed near the Kedarnath shrine, in Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand on June 15, 2025 | Photo Credit: Photo: X/@uksdrf via PTI Following the fatal Ahmedabad Air India crash, which claimed lives of 241 passengers onboard, another shocking air-related incident came to light today (June 15, 2025),
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R. Santhalakshmi, a resident of Palavakkam, steers the wheel of an autorickshaw that treads softly on the planet. It is an e auto. She has been an autorickshaw driver for five years — out of which four and a half years had been spent driving a conventional auto, one fitted out with an internal combustion
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An hour ago, I rushed into the kitchen to inaugurate a gift—the pineapple vendor’s knife. It emerged unwillingly from its newspaper scabbard, still sticky from its last victim. But scrubbed clean, the slender blade glinted with impatience. I hesitated. What, after all, was a pineapple? A brute chunk, managed with a machete. This knife demanded
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President Donald Trump’s pledge to exert US power around the world is being tested in Europe and the Middle East, but this weekend offers him a chance to display that power on American soil. Trump, who’s celebrating his 79th birthday on Saturday, is the driving force behind the parade down Washington’s Constitution Avenue — which
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A serpentine queue of vehicles on the north-western side of Vyttila Junction on S.A. Road, despite traffic reforms. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT With huge traffic snarls continuing at Vyttila Junction and on roads leading to the junction on Friday and Saturday despite traffic reforms introduced jointly by the police and the Motor Vehicles department
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A file image of members of Arambai Tenggol | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Violence returned to Manipur after a brief lull when security personnel picked up Asem Kanan Singh, the self-styled ‘army chief’ of Arambai Tenggol (AT), a radical Meitei group, from one of its strategic units in Imphal on the night of June 7.
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This book, a biography of the Urdu newspaper Pratap, is a ringing reminder for journalists of our times, many of whom seem to have lost their spines. It also hits hard at those who demean Urdu, dubbing it as the language of the invaders. Pratap was founded in difficult times when just the acts of
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Kerala has been punching above its weight for a long time. In the 20th century, it spawned a genre of academic studies based on the idea that it was a model that parts of the developed world should follow. Few other Indian States could boast of such a thing. More anthropologists and economists and sociologists
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