For years, villagers in a drought-prone region of Central Java believed Mbah Sadiman was wasting his life. While the hills around Wonogiri remained dry and damaged by deforestation, the elderly farmer quietly spent decades planting banyan trees across barren slopes. To continue buying seedlings, he even sold his goats and used much of his own…
Image used for representative purposes Hamas’s armed wing on Wednesday confirmed that its military chief, Mohammed Odeh, was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza a day earlier, after Israel had announced his death on Tuesday.In a statement identifying him as the “Chief of Staff of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades”, Hamas’s armed wing said Odeh…
NEW DELHI: The Rajasthan high court has dismissed a husband’s plea seeking narco-analysis, polygraph and DNA tests on himself and his wife in a pending divorce case, holding that the application was filed too late and was not necessary to decide the dispute.Justice Sanjeet Purohit, sitting as Vacation Judge, upheld an order of the family…
Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans become top landing spots for $120M San Francisco 49ers’ star.(Image via X) The San Francisco 49ers’ star player Brandon Aiyuk has found himself in a mess as the team voided his $27 million in contract guarantees and placed him on the reserve list. While the Washington Commanders have been…
G Parameshwara is set to become Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister as Congress finalizes its cabinet. BENGALURU: Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara is set to be appointed Deputy chief minister in the new Karnataka government headed by chief minister-designate D K Shivakumar, sources said on Tuesday.The decision emerged after a series of high-level meetings in New…
The Trump administration is awarding grants to a group of quantum computing companies, including IBM, in exchange for equity stakes in some of them, deepening Washington’s push to support sectors viewed as critical to domestic supply chains and technological competitiveness, Reuters reported.The move expands the administration’s strategy of taking ownership positions in companies considered strategically…
In the darkness, a black Mercedes-Benz and escort vehicles moved across the tarmac of Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Moments earlier, Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft had landed after a long flight from Israel, carrying commandos tasked with freeing hostages held thousands of kilometres away from home.Ahead of them was a guarded airport terminal. Behind them…
Bengaluru: Snabbit has raised $56 million as it looks to consolidate its position in India’s fast-growing on-demand home services market. The round was co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investments, and Bertelsmann India Investments. The funding values the startup at about $390 million, sources told TOI. Founder and CEO Aayush Agarwal declined to…
Beauty parlour owner Manisha Waghmare, arrested earlier in the NEET-UG paper leak case, is also a resident of Ganga Osian Park society at Sukhsagarnagar near Katraj in Pune A CBI team on Saturday carried out searches in college teacher Manisha Gurunath Mandhare’s flat in Ganga Osian Park society at Sukhsagarnagar near Katraj in Pune Beauty…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday directed the Delhi Gymkhana Club in Lutyens’ Delhi to vacate its premises by June 5, stating that the 27.3-acre land parcel is required for strengthening and securing defence-related infrastructure. The order was issued by the Land and Development Office (L&DO) under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, which…