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India is home to some of the oldest structures in the world such as Charminar, Ajmer Fort and various Indian temples standing tall for hundreds of years. Built using organic lime mortar, burnt clay bricks or terracotta, Jaggery, black gram, fruit pulp as well as sand and water, these provided strength, acted as natural waterproofing…

Image Credit: TOI Bengaluru/X BENGALURU: A US-returned techie, desperate to raise funds for a new venture, has been arrested on charges of murdering his parents at their villa in Vignan Nagar, near HAL township, in east Bengaluru Wednesday.Naveen Chandra Bhat, 60, a retired navy captain, and his dentist-wife Shyamala Bhat, 55, were residing in Adarsh…

NEW DELHI: Kamruddin, the 72-year-old occultist arrested for allegedly killing three people using poisoned laddoos in a car on Peeragarhi flyover, has been described by cops as a habitual offender — a shadowy figure whose criminal history stretched across Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, leaving a trail of fear and tragedy in its wake.In one of…

NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi accused the govt Wednesday of “completely surrendering” India’s core data, food and energy interests in the trade deal, in a sharp attack in Lok Sabha on PM Modi who, he alleged, had caved in to pressure due to the leverage that country has over him.Participating in the…

‘Border 2’, which kicked off with an impressive bang during the Republic Day celebrations, is now seeing a decline in its box office draw as it enters week three. Despite the stirring performance of Sunny Deol and a hefty total of Rs 316 crore in India, totaling Rs 432.1 crore globally, recent ticket sales reflect…

NEW DELHI: South Block, home to all major decisions in govt for over five decades, will see PMO move out of the British-era building on Friday afternoon and shift to the newly constructed Seva Teerth. PM Narendra Modi will chair the last Cabinet meeting in South Block on that day before the inauguration of the…

NEW DELHI: Bringing to SC’s notice various instances of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s alleged hate speeches, including a recent controversial video featuring him, a group of citizens from Assam have urged SC through a petition to enforce its order in which it had directed that FIR must be lodged in cases of hate speech.Compiling…

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police‘s preliminary investigation into the alleged leak of a pre-print copy of ‘Four Stars of Destiny’, the unpublished memoir of former Army chief Gen MM Naravane (retd), suggests it was not the handiwork of a suspected whistleblower but a coordinated effort to bypass clearance by the ministry of defence, an official said…

NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented step, Supreme Court put on hold an advocate’s two attempts to divorce his wife through talaq-e-hasan and sent them to mediation for an amicable settlement of their marital dispute even though the man had remarried after the first talaq-e-hasan in 2022.Amid duelling interpretations of Shariat, Muslim personal law and its…

NEW DELHI: After a six-day breather, Delhi’s air quality slipped back to the very poor category on Wednesday. The Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 305 at 4pm, up from 271 (poor) at the same time on Tuesday. The last time the city recorded very poor air was on Feb 4, when the AQI was…