NEW DELHI:The Customs officials at Hyderabad airport arrested three persons in three separate cases for allegedly smuggling 1,633 gram gold worth Rs 99.57 lakh, officials said on Sunday.

PATNA: Two persons died and four others fell critically ill after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on Sunday.

KOLKATA: As the process for installation of CCTV cameras has started in Jadavpur University (JU) amid the recent ragging-related death of fresher on August 10, the victim’s father has said that had this initiative been taken much before probably he and his wife would not have lost their minor son.

MUMBAI: Looks like there are attempts by vested interests to bring the fans wars over stars on to the streets.

LAHORE: Dev Anand was forever on our TV screens. My mother and aunts were huge fans. But my mother also had bundles of Filmfare magazines, and large black discs of gramophones with beautiful covers of Indian actors and actresses.

NEW DELHI: Three-fourth of his 88-year-long life was spent in acting and of these, six and a half decades, over half, had Dev Anand playing the lead (romantic) role, even as his peers and even several of his leading ladies had moved on or out.

NEW DELHI: In the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, while the court granted him one-day exemption from appearance, Delhi Police have said the accused never missed an opportunity to sexually harass women wrestlers.

NEW DELHI: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to distract people from the idea of caste census by triggering controversies through its MPs Ramesh Bidhuri and Nishikant Dubey.

NEW YORK: A team of US scientists has restored walking in mice after paralysis from spinal cord injury.

MUMBAI: Playback singer Suresh Wadkar took a trip down memory lane, and shared anecdotes from when he recorded the song 'Aye Zindagi Gale Laga Le' from the romantic drama film ‘Sadma’.

NEW DELHI: Hero MotoCorp-backed electric vehicle (EV) company Ather Energy’s losses surged more than 2.5 times in the financial year 2022-23.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that the G20 University Connect Programme will be held on September 26, where lakhs of university students across the country will connect with each other. Prestigious institutions like IITs, IIMs, NITs and medical colleges will also participate in it.

ISLAMABAD: In an intelligence-based joint operation, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Federal Capital Police have hunted down two agents of a foreign spy agency and recovered explosive material with arms, ammunition and suspicious documents from their possession, local media reported.

MOGADISHU: At least 20 people, most of them civilians, were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Beledweyne town in Somalia, local officials said.

VIJAYAWADA: Police beefed up security on the border with Andhra Pradesh to stop a car rally of IT employees from Hyderabad to Rajahmundry in support of former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is in judicial custody in the skill development case.

HYDERABAD: BJP’s preparations for upcoming Assembly elections in Telangana are expected to get a boost with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state on October 1.

NEW DELHI: A man, aged around 25-27, was mowed down by an unidentified vehicle in northeast Delhi, an official said, adding that they are scanning CCTV cameras in the area to identify the offending vehicle and its driver.

NEW DELHI: A day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) confiscated the properties of Canada-based ‘designated individual terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, it is learnt that the government has asked the investigative agencies to identify the properties of other terrorists wanted in India sitting abroad.

NEW YORK: An Indian-American policy expert, who is running for Fort Bend County Commissioner in the US state of Texas, has said that he has been receiving hate-filled messages targeting his ethnicity, nationality, and faith on social media.

HANGZHOU: Indian Men's Hockey Team started their campaign at the 19th Asian Games with a massive 16-0 win over Uzbekistan in Pool A match here on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: With just 11 days to go for the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup to begin in India, all ten teams will be fine-tuning their preparation and seeing who are their best personnel in case they are hit by injuries before or during the competition.

ISTANBUL: Exposure to blue light, like that from smartphones or tablets, may lead to early puberty in males, according to a study in mice.

LONDON: Nearly a third of patients showed abnormalities in multiple organs, particularly in the lungs, brain and kidneys, five months after Covid-19 infection, revealed a study looking at the longer-term impact of the infectious disease.

MUMBAI: Singer Navraj Hans performed at actress Parineeti Chopra and AAP leader Raghav Chadha’s sangeet on Saturday night and said it was an “absolute pleasure” and wished the couple a “happy married life”.

LOS ANGELES: Supermodel Gisele Bundchen revealed that she wanted to kill herself at the peak of her modelling career by jumping from the ninth storey of her apartment block.

BEIJING: One person was killed and seven others were missing after their boat sank off Dalian City in China's Liaoning Province, according to local maritime authorities.

NEW DELHI: Indian laws relating to maintenance have always tilted in the favour of the wife, at least that’s the common notion in the society. Everyone is aware that maintenance to the wife is well known and the most common concept in Indian society, but what about the husband’s right to claim it?

LUCKNOW: BJP will now adopt BSP founder late Kanshi Ram’s strategy of using folk songs to mobilise backward classes and Dalits in its favour.

SEOUL: Kia's EV6 GT topped this year's evaluation of electric vehicle models by a leading German automotive magazine, Auto Motor Und Sport, beating Ford Motor's Mustang Mach-E SUV, Hyundai Motor Group said on Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk’s biography by American author-journalist Walter Isaacson saw a robust sale in the first week of its launch, selling 92,560 copies.

SAN FRANCISCO: Following a year of record-breaking inflation and market turbulence, local tech salaries in the US, including those for fully in-person or hybrid roles, have experienced their most significant year-over-year decline, dropping 3 per cent from $161,000 to $156,000, a new report has revealed.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have arrested a 29-year-old man, his brother, and an associate for framing his rival by shooting himself in the leg, an official said on Sunday.

AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad, a city where time seems to stand still, boasts of rich history, culture, and architecture. Cross the Sabarmati River, and you find yourself in old Amdavad, a place where every lane whispers tales of the past.

CHENNAI: UNESCO declares certain properties as World Heritage Sites based on their cultural and natural heritage that is considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.

BHOPAL: 'Bhimbetka', which translates to Bhim's Baithak or lounge, that bagged the UNESCO heritage site tag in 2003, houses more than 750 rock shelters and is acknowledged for earliest traces of human life from the Stone Age.

PORTO NOVO: At least 35 people were killed and more than ten seriously injured in a fire at a petrol warehouse in Benin, the government said.

NEW DELHI: Strategic analysts are writing a lot on the situation in Pakistan in the context of what is happening to Imran Khan in the wake of criminal cases being pursued against him with endorsement from a hostile Army and wondering where that country - clearly in an economic mess - was headed. They are also trying to analyse the implications of all of that for India.

UNITED NATIONS: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called the G20 Leaders’ Declaration adopted in New Delhi this month “objective” about Ukraine and the geopolitical situation.

NEW YORK: US intelligence agencies provided information that led Canada to hold India responsible for Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing, according to Western-allied officials, The New York Times reported.

ROME: Two people died and many hundreds were evacuated after wildfires consumed large parts of northern Sicily, Italy, according to local media reports.