An Eithad flight from Abu Dhabi to Jakarta had to be diverted to Mumbai on Wednesday after an Indonesian flyer went into labour. Flight EY-474 departed from Abu Dhabi at 3.38am and was scheduled to land in Jakarta at 3.05pm (both local time). According to data from flightradar24, a live flight tracking app, the A330 …

Staring at his ex-wife at a garba in Vadaj got a man into trouble on Saturday late in the night, as the woman’s current husband took it as an affront and thrashed him. At least four persons suffered injuries in the brawl that ensued. Haresh Lalwani, 29, an autorickshaw driver and resident of Sohrabji compound in Vadaj, filed a complaint …

A group of farmers in Beed, called Shetkari Sangharsh Samiti, has threatened to lock the Met office in the city on Monday in a letter to the India Meteorological Department for getting the monsoon forecast wrong this year. The letter alleged that the India Meteorological Department (IMD) conspired with seed and pesticide manufacturing companies and wrongfully inflated the monsoon rainfall …

For the first time in 235 years, Ramlila at Ramnagar was put on hold for a day after four actors playing the characters of Lord Ram, Laxman, Bharat and Shatrughan were admitted to Lal Bahadur Shastri government hospital with symptoms of diarrhoea. The 45-day-long Ramnagar Ramlila was recognised as an intangible world cultural heritage by Unesco in 2005. On Wednesday, …

Nine people, including four minor boys, were arrested by police on Monday on charges of a gang rape of a class X girl student of a boarding school at Sahaspur on the outskirts of the city. The minors were presented before the Juvenile Justice Board, while the five others – who are officials of the boarding school and its staff …

Burglars, possibly afraid of police dogs, returned the gold jewellery worth 16 lakh they had stolen from a 40-year-old woman a week after the theft. Imthiyas Aboobacker of Chinnasamy Street in Perambur had stepped out with her children on August 26. When the family returned around 10:30pm, they found the door broken open and valuables missing. Aboobacker immediately lodged a …

Doctors are slowly losing hope of his recovery. But Mehsana’s beggar Khimji Prajapati, who has won millions of hearts by donating all his alms for social causes, is not deterred by his life-threatening condition. Prajapati, who was detected with stomach cancer three months ago, has donated Rs 5,000 — an amount that he could have well spent on his treatment …

Soon, the compost made from household waste may be available online for sale. The state’s horticulture department is all set to become the first and major customer by purchasing tonnes of compost made out of waste. The department would in turn save Rs 16 lakh every year by purchasing compost from the local bodies instead of other private sources. It …

It’s Cupid for people with HIV. A website, launched at IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) by Surat-based organizations Sri Rama Krishna (SRK) Group and Gujarat Sate Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GSNP+), will connect persons with HIV/AIDS across the globe. An initiative of GSNP, the website has financial support from SRK Knowledge Foundation and technical support from IIM-A. IIM-A director Errol D’Souza …

After some days of acting strangely, seeking isolation and refusing to speak to his parents, a nine-year-old student of a private school in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar finally told his mother and sister that he was being sexually molested by older students during their ride home in the school bus. The child claimed that he had even complained to the …