In a tragic incident, an Indian man working at the Kuwait Airport was run over by an empty Boeing 777 aircraft while it was being towed away. The freak accident happened on Monday after the tow bar used to tow the empty Boeing 777 from the airport yard to the terminal snapped. The victim, identified …
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It took Uttar Pradesh Police six months to realize that one of its constables who had gone missing following a month-long leave in November last year was, in fact, a convict in the infamous 1987 Hashimpura massacre serving a life sentence. Kanwar Pal Singh, a 55-year-old constable posted at Bijnor’s Badhapur police station last, was finally terminated on Friday following …
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Keshav Chandra will turn 19 in three days. This birthday will be even more special as he will celebrate scoring 96 per cent marks in his 12th exam with 100 marks in legal studies. Chandra, who lives with cerebral palsy, tells a tale of courage, emotions, learning and everything a human aspires to have in order to rival the gods. …
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Exam results of both CBSE and ICSE boards have been announced and several students have managed to score extremely well. It’s a rarity that students manage to get ent per cent marks in their board exams but two students who appeared in the ISC exam managed to score 100 per cent marks. Kolkata’s Dewang Kumar Agarwal and Bengaluru’s Vibha Swaminathan …
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A ‘royal’ tiger housed in captivity at the city’s National Park died of old age early on Friday. The park’s only surviving white tiger, Bajirao, who was 18 years old, was unable to walk due to long-standing arthritis. Bajirao had been afflicted with ‘chronic senile generalised arthritis’ for four years. The condition is akin to an aged human’s inability to …
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A charter plane carrying with 143 people on board had a narrow escape ended up in a river at the end of a runway. The plane travelling from Cuba to north Florida had overrun the runway due to reasons still unknown and thankfully no critical injuries were reported. Officials say a charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba …
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Karishma Arora, 18, student of a Muzaffarnagar school, topped the country in the recently declared CBSE results by scoring 499 marks out of 500. But she is the topper with a difference. Fond of dancing, Karishma travels to Delhi along with her father every week to receive training in Kathak from famous Kathak dancer Gitanjali Lal. During spare time, she …
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly all set to send microchips embedded with human cells or human organs as they are called. The objective is to find out travel to space affects human body. “The organs on a chip replicate human physiological function at the cellular level and have been designed to study those processes easier than in actual humans,” reads …
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Food from one’s city or town has a distinct flavour. At a new place, craving and nostalgia take place of the real taste that once was the part of daily cuisine. But sometimes, one gets really lucky to find some places, where they can get authentic home food ingredients that satiates their palette and makes possible the preparation of their …
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Business tycoon Ness Wadia, heir to the Wadia Group and co-owner of Kings XI Punjab has been sentenced to a two-year jail term in Japan over possession of drugs. The Financial Times, quoting Japan’s national broadcaster NHK reported that Wadia was arrested in March at New Chitose Airport in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido while on a holiday after …
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