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Few travel nightmares compare to falling ill before a long journey. Stitching a video of a traveller who contracted food poisoning at an airport right before a 10-hour flight, US-based gastroenterologist and health content creator Dr Joseph Salhab shared advice on how travellers can protect themselves against GI distress while on the go. Also read | Falling sick every monsoon? Gastroenterologist shares 5 common digestive problems, warning signs and preventive tipsIn a post shared on Instagram on July 29, Dr Salhab — who specialises in digestion, liver health, pancreas health, and nutrition — unpacked the primary transmission routes of stomach…

Story: Tom Holland’s Peter Parker grows up in Brand New Day, a melancholic, grief-stricken Spider-Man story that trades humour for humanity.Review: Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), New York’s friendly neighborhood hero is no longer a bumbling teenager. With his high school years behind him, Peter Parker enters a new chapter of his life, confronting its defining realities—grief, loss, loneliness, and a profound journey of self-reflection. Having lost Aunt May and the two people closest to him, Ned and MJ, whose memories of Peter have been erased, he is left to navigate adulthood alone. Now a full-time…

MUMBAI: As online shopping increasingly becomes the norm in smaller cities and towns, Amazon and Flipkart are mounting a fee war-they are doing away with commissions or fees charged to sellers for transacting on the platforms. The companies have done it twice since last year for a wide range of products across categories priced within Rs 1,000-lower price points tend to drive a large part of the sales in these regions, pushing up overall volumes for firms.Earlier this month, Flipkart also removed commission altogether for the fashion category. Sellers selling on Amazon and Flipkart typically pay a fee to the…

The two police officers focused first on Lindsay Clancy drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow after jumping from her Massachusetts home’s second-floor window in January 2023. Within minutes, they were racing into the basement after her then husband screamed that all three of their children were dead.“I can’t wake them up – I can’t get them up!” Patrick Clancy frantically told the officers who, along with firefighters and paramedics, gave jurors first-hand accounts on Thursday of the aftermath.The murder trial has centered on Clancy’s mental state at the time. Her lawyers do not dispute that she strangled…

MUMBAI: India’s formal retail credit penetration more than doubled over the past decade, with the share of consumers who accessed credit at least once rising from 35% in March 2017 to 74% in March 2026, even as the credit-eligible population expanded from 79 crore to 89 crore.The expansion was accompanied by a sharp rise in engagement, with the proportion of credit-active consumers increasing from 11% to 28%, indicating deeper participation in formal finance. According to TransUnion CIBIL’s latest report, consumption-led lending has emerged as the primary driver of this growth, with personal loans, credit cards and consumer durable loans becoming…

Complaint Over Expired Beverage Triggers Action Against Thane Railway Stall Thane: The Central Railway has temporarily sealed a multi-purpose stall in the waiting room area at Thane railway station and imposed penalty on its contractor after complaints of unhygienic conditions, officials said on Thursday.The action follows repeated complaints from commuters about poor hygiene at the stall near Platform 2. A recent inspection by members of the Divisional Railway Users’ Consultative Committee (DRUCC) found the complaints to be valid and recommended action against the operator.“We received complaints, conducted an inspection and, after verifying the allegations, sealed the stall and penalised the…

New Delhi: Police have registered an FIR against AAP’s Delhi Cantonment MLA Virender Singh Kadian after a woman who sells flowers told police that the legislator, his son and three of their associates kicked and molested her, beat up her husband and threatened them after they asked for payment for a bouquet they had sold to them.TOI reached out to Kadian for his statement, but no response came from his side.The FIR at Delhi Cantonment police station says the dispute began on July 18 after a bouquet was prepared in the MLA’s name at the flower shop the woman runs…

Bengaluru: All engineering colleges affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) will conduct integrated health camps with special focus on HIV awareness, testing, and counselling under the Mobilisation for AIDS Suraksha (MAS) programme.Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) has asked VTU to facilitate the camps across its affiliated institutions. VTU is the umbrella university for engineering colleges in the state, with more than 220 affiliated colleges and around 3 lakh students.According to KSAPS, an estimated 1 lakh people are living with HIV in Karnataka, of whom nearly 54,000 may be undiagnosed and unaware of their status. The society said expanding HIV…

Hyderabad: Two persons, including a 49-year-old woman and an unidentified man, drowned in separate incidents reported in the city since Wednesday.A 49-year-old labourer drowned in a stream at Pilloniguda village in Shamshabad. The body of the victim, who went missing after going for a temple visit, was found in the abutting stream on Wednesday. Police suspect she might have accidentally fallen into the stream and drowned.The deceased was identified as B Anjamma, a worker from Pilloniguda. According to the family members, Anjamma left home at 3.30pm on July 28 after informing her younger daughter, Srivani, that she would be going…

Chennai: A 33-year-old man from Telangana was arrested by west zone cybercrime police in connection with a ₹12.7 lakh online fraud case. In his police complaint, Jayanthi Babu, 35, of Krishna Industrial Estate, Vanagaram, said he was contacted by a person claiming to help him secure a ₹4 crore tender for the supply of automatic doors to Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.The caller instructed the businessman to pay a security deposit, following which Jayanthi Babu transferred ₹12,70,520 through multiple transactions to a specified bank account. After receiving the money, the caller stopped responding.Police registered a case on March 11 and traced…