Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 22:50 IST Lebanese army soldiers stand guard as an ambulance rushes wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on September 17. (Image: ANWAR AMRO/AFP) Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the model of pagers used in the attack against Hezbollah were made by Budapest-based BAC Consulting, adding it … Read more
Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 14:33 IST The incident took place in eastern China’s Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. (Representational/ File Photo) A 55-year-old food delivery agent, identified as Yuan, often used to work reportedly from 6 AM till 3 AM. A 55-year-old food delivery agent in China passed away while napping on his bike … Read more
NEW DELHI: After days of impasse over distribution of department-related parliamentary standing committees, parties are learnt to have reached a consensus with Congress likely to head four key panels including external affairs, education, human resource development and agriculture.Sources said a notification in this regard is expected shortly. In 2014, with the Congress tally at just … Read more
Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 22:53 IST Israeli troops and armoured vehicles operate on the ground in the Gaza Strip amid the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Image: AFP) Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), including military equipment and war weapons, a 10-fold increase from 2022, … Read more
Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 15:12 IST Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati India Tour will begin on October 26. The tickets to his concert were sold out in minutes. (Photo Credits: Instagram) Delhi: A man duped a woman and her friend of Rs 21,000 in ticket scam for Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Dil-Luminati Tour’ in India. The woman has since … Read more
NEW DELHI: SpiceJet is now looking at a lifeline with its crucial fundraising exercise learnt to be finding favour with investors. The airline’s Rs 3,000-crore QIP has been oversubscribed, say sources. The likely investors include institutional funds like Tata Mutual Fund, Bandhan Bank, Discovery Fund, Plutus, Jupiter Fund Management and Think Investments.Family offices of ace … Read more
Nine people were killed in fresh blasts in Lebanon a day after deadly pager blasts blamed on Israel ripped through the country. Lebanon’s health ministry also reported “more than 300 wounded” in “a new wave of walkie-talkie blasts” on September 18. Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah reportedly detonated across southern Lebanon and in Beirut’s southern … Read more
Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 15:14 IST John Wayne Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994. (Photo Credits: YouTube) According to CBS, this knotting method was found on the ropes around the necks of victims discovered at his home on Summerdale Avenue, Norwood Park Township. An old chilling clip on YouTube, uploaded about eight years … Read more
MUMBAI: TISS has revoked its ban on Progressive Students’ Forum (PSF), Left-leaning students’ collective, and modified its honour code to remove a mandatory pledge from students against “indulging in any political, anti-establishment, unpatriotic discussions, demonstrations, dharna or any form of activities that disturb the academic environment of the institute”.The ban, imposed on Aug 19 after … Read more
As mobile phones became the world’s main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make to notify users about incoming messages, were largely rendered obsolete, with demand plunging from their 1990s heyday. But the tiny electronic devices remain a vital means of communication in some areas – such as healthcare … Read more