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Enraged locals chased the vehicle, dragged out driver Govardhan Patra (45) and another occupant, and assaulted them before police intervened Jamshedpur: A five-year-old girl was killed and six others injured after a speeding car hit multiple two-wheelers in a hit-and-run incident on the Subarnarekha river overbridge at Amainagar under Ghatsila police station limits in East Singhbhum late Wednesday night.Police said the car first rammed into two scooters and a motorcycle, injuring three commuters. While trying to flee, the driver allegedly lost control and crashed into another motorcycle carrying a family of four. The impact threw pillion rider Sushmita Sinha (48)…

Accused Threatened To Suspend Bank Account Over KYCTimes News NetworkSurat: A 45-year-old textile businessman from Godadara lost Rs 6.31 lakh after downloading a fake mobile application, or APK file, for a purported bank KYC update from a WhatsApp group. Surat cybercrime police have registered a case in connection with the fraud.According to the FIR, the victim, Rupesh Shah, was added to a WhatsApp group purportedly linked to Bank of India. Members of the group allegedly circulated messages warning customers that their bank accounts would be suspended if they failed to update their KYC details.Believing the messages to be genuine, Shah…

BJP state chief Pankaj Chaudhary in Azamgarh Varanasi: At Azamgarh — the Samajwadi Party’s citadel — Bharatiya Janata Party state president Pankaj Chaudhary targeted SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav over the circulation of an alleged AI-generated insulting image of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, saying, “These acts of insulting seers expose his frustration.”After offering prayers at the Durvasa Rishi temple in Durvasa Dham and attending the fifth death anniversary ceremony of BJP state general secretary Sahajanand Rai’s father, late Adya Prasad Rai, Chaudhary took a dig at Akhilesh, saying people could not be misled through such politics.Regarding claims by the SP chief…

The loan is being sought to meet a major portion of the project cost of Rs 432.57 crore, excluding the cost of land T’puram: Technopark has sought a Rs 350-crore term loan to finance the completion of its ambitious QUAD IT Building project at Technocity, the IT Park’s Phase IV campus at Pallipuram.The loan is being sought to meet a major portion of the project cost of Rs 432.57 crore, excluding the cost of land. The proposed QUAD IT building has a built-up area of 8.97 lakh sq ft and is expected to add substantial new IT infrastructure to Technopark’s…

Kolkata: It’s beendecades since viewers have had the chance to watch Uttam Kumar-starrers, Ajoy Kar’s ‘Harano Sur’ (1957) and Satyajit Ray’s ‘Nayak’ (1966), projected from their original physical prints. As a groundbreaking initiative for the Mahanayak’s centenary, the state govt will bring the two masterworks back in 35mm at Radha Studio, with ‘Harano Sur’ screening on Saturday and ‘Nayak’ on Sunday.At a time when global directors, including Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, are keeping celluloid alive despite the digital boom, this state initiative aligns local cultural stewardship with the worldwide revival of physical film. A digital DCP screening of ‘Nayak’…

Fundraiser for Erin Piacenti, the new mother who was stabbed to death at Times Square, triggered row as an Indian organized it. The fundraiser for Erin Piacenti triggered a massive row on social media, as one Shray Gupta organized it on behalf of the family for Erin’s five-month-old daughter, Madison. One Aman Gupta got trolled as an ‘Indian scammer’ as Aman shared the GoFundMe link from his X handle. “Our family is grieving after the horrific Times Sq attack this week. Please support Madison’s future if you would like to help,” Aman wrote. As people questioned the veracity of the…

She described the impact of her father’s death on her mother Terri and her younger brother Robert, 22. “My mum lost the love of her life; my brother and I lost the greatest dad,” she wrote. “Grief never truly leaves us; we walk alongside it every day.”Bindi also shared details on how her daughter connects with the grandfather she never got to meet.”I have a 5-year-old daughter who watches his documentaries every morning. She feels utterly loved by her ‘grandpa crocodile’ without ever having met him.”Since Steve’s death, the Irwins have continued to run Australia Zoo in Queensland.”My dad left…

Wallace and Gromit became Aardman’s most famous characters after animator Nick Park joined the studio in 1985.But Gromit was not always a dog.”I had this idea of an English guy who builds a rocket, in the basement of his house,” recalled Park.”I was thinking he may have a pet, probably a cat.”The switch was surprisingly simple.”I started modelling the cat, and it was just very difficult, so I thought I’d do a dog instead!”Park was developing A Grand Day Out at the National Film and Television School in London when Lord and Sproxton came to speak to students.”We met him…

The Swiss village of Kandersteg could be destroyed by a landslide due to an unstable mountain rock formation, and scientists are linking the threat to thawing permafrost and glacier dynamics. The 1,300 residents of the village in Switzerland’s Bern canton live in the midst of a charming landscape including sharp peaks, white glaciers, steep green valleys and it is this natural surrounding that could take it over, as per a report by CNN.A mountainside rock formation called Spitze Stei, part of a mountain landscape increasingly affected by thawing permafrost, threatens to collapse the valley in a massive landslide. There has…

John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played Wimbledon’s longest match, lasting 11 hours across three days/ Image: Olympics.com A tennis match that lasted 11 hours and five minutes, stretched across three days, produced 183 games, and eventually broke the electronic scoreboard sounds more like a story written for television than something that actually happened at Wimbledon. Yet that was precisely what unfolded when American John Isner and France’s Nicolas Mahut met in the first round of the 2010 Championships. Their fifth set alone lasted eight hours and 11 minutes, longer than some entire professional matches, while both players repeatedly served to…