Pradeep Purnekar, a functionary of Shiv Sena (UBT), was shot outside his party office on Tuesday night. THANE: Shiv Sena (UBT) functionary Pradeep Purnekar was allegedly shot twice outside his party office in the Manpada area of Ghodbunder Road on Tuesday night, sending shockwaves through the area.Purnekar sustained serious injuries in the firing and was…
T’puram: Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) on Wednesday launched Cyber Jagratha SafeTech campaign, an initiative aimed at improving cyber awareness, digital safety and responsible use of technology among citizens.The campaign, launched by the IT department, will initially train 1,000 academic ambassadors and 1,500 community ambassadors. They will take cybersafety awareness programmes to one lakh students…
KARACHI: Pakistan’s consumer price index for February was up 23.1% from the same month last year, marking the slowest rate of annual inflation since June 2022, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. The country has been struggling with soaring inflation, which last May hit an all-time high of 38% on an…
The festive lights of Tihar, Nepal’s festival of joy and renewal, burned dim in Mahendranagar, a quiet town in the far-western plains of Nepal. The air that would normally echo with songs and laughter was heavy with grief. Hundreds gathered as the body of Bipin Joshi, a 23-year-old student who died in Hamas captivity, returned…
Kingstown Road and Scotland Road form one of the main routes into Carlisle, and by autumn 2017 they had a new skin. Some of the bitumen holding the asphalt together had been replaced with pellets made from waste plastic.Cumbria, an area in England, wanted to make roads the better way. Roads that are environmentally friendly….
In February 1945, the British submarine HMS Venturer sank the German U-boat U-864 off Norway’s Fedje island, killing all 73 people aboard. More than eight decades later, the wreck has become the centre of a very different problem: a potentially massive mercury cargo that remains on the seabed. In June 2026, Norwegian authorities recovered 22…
Quote of the day by Li Ka-shing (AP photo) There are moments when people quietly blame circumstances for the way things turn out. Luck, timing, family background, money and simple chance can all appear to have a genuine say in where a person actually ends up. Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, took…
Seven members of a family and two others were killed in a two-vehicle road crash in Saudi Arabia/Image: Representative Image Seven members of a family and two others were killed after two vehicles collided on the Al-Uqair-Al-Uyun road in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, Saudi Gazette reported.The crash took place in Al-Ahsa governorate. The seven family…
Pink lakes within the New South Wales national parks estate will be protected for the first time after the NSW and Australian governments jointly purchased Pulgamurtie Station, a 74,000-hectare property about 235 kilometres north-east of Broken Hill. This landscape is home to more than 70 threatened species, including the iconic brolga, pink cockatoo and slender…
Guns, gold and tolls How Congo’s militias and guerrillas profit from the M23 war In a remote mining village in the Democratic Republic of Congo, teenagers carrying Kalashnikovs guard a gold mine while claiming to fight for their country. But behind the language of patriotism lies another reality: a growing militia economy fuelled by war,…
