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Former Bombay High Court judge Gautam Patel (File photo) MUMBAI: In what could be an unprecedented court-related event, a death threat was allegedly delivered on June 5 to the London home of the daughter of a former Bombay high court judge Gautam Patel mere weeks after she was physically assaulted on a London street. Speaking…

YouTuber Maridhas (File Photo) CHENNAI: YouTuber Maridhas was arrested on Monday for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay and some state ministers during an interview on a YouTube channel.Police arrested Maridhas from his residence in Kadachanendhal in Madurai at around 8am. He was taken into custody by a team…

TMC leader Jahangir Khan, who famously declared ‘I will not bow down,’ was arrested near the India-Nepal border. KOLKATA: Just weeks ago, TMC strongman Jahangir Khan was at the centre of one of West Bengal’s most talked-about election battles in Falta, projecting himself as a fearless political enforcer who would not bend before authorities or…

Veteran actor Jaya Bachchan has spoken out against the objectification of women in cinema amid the ongoing debate surrounding Janhvi Kapoor’s character in ‘Peddi’. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, Bachchan reflected on an incident from her own career when she resisted a filmmaker’s attempt to portray her in a more sexualised manner.Her comments arrive…

NEW DELHI: A Puducherry consumer commission has held a restaurant liable for serving contaminated food and directed it to compensate the customer along with providing 10 free plates of biriyani after a dead insect was found in a plate of biriyani.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Puducherry, comprising S. Mouttouvel (President), A.S. Suvitha (Member) and…

This bus ticket is an AI-generated image This story is fake as the bus ticket turned out to be AI-generated and circulated on social media. The passenger, identified in the copy as P Damadoran, remains incommunicado despite TOI reaching out to him several times over the phone to seek his clarification and establish the authenticity…

Zooplankton, Copepod, Leptodiaptomus minutus, male| Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons When acid rain swept across parts of Ontario in the 1960s, it had a dramatic effect on freshwater ecosystems.Populations of fish were wiped out, many microscopic aquatic species declined, and vast areas of lakes became far more acidic than they had been in centuries. Amidst the…

A tiny fossil, Saccorhytus coronarius, once thought to be a human ancestor from China’s Cambrian era, has been reclassified. Advanced imaging revealed supposed gill slits were broken spines, excluding it from the deuterostome lineage. Image Credit: Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome Fig 1 There was once an extraordinary little animal…

Afghanistan’s Sediqullah Atal gets bowled by India’s Prasidh Krishna on day two of Test cricket match between India and Afghanistan, in Mullanpur. (PTI Photo) Afghanistan head coach Richard Pybus admitted that his team’s approach in the one-off Test against India showed signs of “naivety”, saying the lack of exposure to red-ball cricket played a major…

The Centre on Monday reduced the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders available annually to beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) from nine to four aligning the support with average household consumption levels, a senior government official said. Under the flagship scheme launched in May 2016, beneficiaries were initially entitled to 12 subsidised…