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AHMEDABAD: A 22-year-old student from Gujarat was allegedly stabbed to death in Canada’s Niagara region near the US border, leaving her family in Anand district devastated.The deceased was identified as Vidhi Kalpeshbhai Megha, a native of Borsad town in Anand district.Vidhi had been living in Canada for the last four years for higher studies. Along…
TOI correspondent from Washington: In the summer of 1976, a Kanpur-born teenage engineering student from BITS Pilani stood in the lobby of the US embassy in New Delhi after being denied a student visa for the third time. His father, who had accompanied him, refused to leave. He had seen the photo of the consular…
(Image Credits: Pinterest) Picture this. It’s early morning on Bakrid. You’re barely awake, but your house is already running at full throttle. Someone’s shouting down the hallway about a missing dupatta. That heavenly, rich smell of mutton biryani is fighting its way out of the kitchen, mixing with the sweet scent of sheer khurma that’s…
Police remove surveillance equipment from Abhishek’s house KOLKATA: Plainclothes cops knocked on the doors of Shantiniketan — the residence of Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee — on Monday and walked out with a large monitor and hard disks after several minutes of high drama.The heavily guarded residence of Banerjee saw a visible security…
Pakistan on Monday firmly rejected the possibility of joining the Abraham Accords after US President Donald Trump called on several Muslim-majority countries, including Pakistan, to normalise ties with Israel as part of a broader regional agreement linked to ongoing negotiations with Iran.Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Islamabad would not support any agreement that contradicted…
Bangladeshis gather at Hakimpur border crossing on Tuesday (IANS) SWARUPNAGAR/KOLKATA: Hundreds of Bangladeshis without the documents required to stay in India made a bee-line for the Bithari-Hakimpur border exit in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Tuesday, seeking to return home amid an administrative flurry to implement the new BJP govt’s “detect-delete-deport” strategy for illegal immigrants.CM…
Melinda French Gates, philanthropist and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has offered an advice that can help people steer past their difficult times: Keep learning and stay open to change. At first, the words seem pretty straightforward. But sit with them for a moment, and they carry a quiet weight. In a…
Thousands of ancient footprints, spanning nearly two miles at Formby, England, reveal a prehistoric human and animal highway. Image Credit: Gemini Imagine walking on a windy beach, looking down at the wet sand, knowing you are walking exactly where a bare-footed human stood nine thousand years ago. On the coast at Formby in England, huge…
In the aftermath of the February 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing that killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, Indian agencies identified several accused linked to the attack’s planning, logistics and execution. By 2021, some had been arrested while others were killed in encounters.Investigators also identified Arjumand Gulzar Dar, alias Hamza Burhan, alias Doctor, a…
Mark Zuckerberg‘s email landed in 78,000 inboxes on Wednesday morning, just as the first wave of layoff notices began going out in Singapore at 4 a.m. local time. To the roughly 8,000 employees losing their jobs, the Meta chief executive offered gratitude. To everyone else—the people still logged in, still wondering whether next month brings…
