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When Flight Lieutenant Abhijit Gadgil died in MiG 21 crash in 2001 in Sutagarh, Rajasthan, his parents Captain Anil Gadgil and Kavita were devastated. But what shocked them was that their son was blamed for the crash and not the plane which even then was called the ‘flying coffin’. Captain Anil Gadgil Spatial disorientation was …

Just like a naming ceremony is organised for a newborn baby, tigers in Tamil Nadu are also given names by the state’s Chief Minister in a special ceremony. However, a five-month-old, male tiger cub at the Vandalur zoo is waiting for the state’s CM to get free from his busy schedule so that he can be assigned a name. Times …

The Travancore Desam Board, which manages the Sabarimala Temple, today told the Supreme Court that it has decided to respect the apex court’s verdict lifting ban on the entry of women to the shrine in Kerala. Making a sharp U-turn, the board said that it supports entry of women of all ages into the hill shrine. The five-judge bench headed …

An anonymous couple made a magnificent landing in Navi Mumbai but one that created a lot of panic among people. Two unidentified persons landed on the ground from a parachute in the Ghansoli area which prompted a probe among agencies. India Today reported that an investigation was, therefore, launched into the suspicious landing and it was discovered a foreign couple …

The interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced his government’s plan of providing an assisted income support to small and marginal farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme as part of the interim budget on February 1. However, it is the farmers who are suffering at the behest of tall promises made by different political parties. Times of India …

A day after his death, in what was initially believed to be an accidental fall, Police now says that IIT Hyderabad student Anirudhya Mummaneni jumped to his death from the seven-storey hostel building on the campus. PTI reported that before he committed suicide, Anirudhya had written an email to his friends hinting that he was ending his life. “The decision …

A man who was trying to smuggle a month-old leopard cub from Bangkok into Chennai via flight was detained on Saturday morning when the Air Intelligence Unit heard faint sounds coming from his luggage. The passenger was handed over to Tamil Nadu Forest Department for further action. The man arrived via Thai Airways and was walking in a suspicious manner …

‘Chalta kya hai masjid ke andar?” It was a question 28-year-old Vikas Gavali had thought of often, but never ended up asking even his closest Muslim friends. “There was always a fear. What if they felt bad,” he says. In December last year, Gavali confronted this apprehension of the unknown, when he visited a mosque for the first time in …

The interim budget is expected to have “interesting features”, possibly including measures to tackle the farm crisis as well as tax benefits for the middle class, as it reaches out to key constituencies ahead of this summer’s general elections. The nature of tax concessions that may be announced on Friday is not clear but sources indicated some of the sops …

We’ve heard stories where politicians or party workers are seen distributing money asking votes but never have we witnessed it for real. But this man from Telangana just shot himself on his foot after a video of his surfaced on social media. The video shows the man allegedly asking voters to return the money he had distributed while seeking votes …