Former Bombay High Court judge Gautam Patel (File photo) MUMBAI: In what could be an unprecedented court-related event, a death threat was allegedly delivered on June 5 to the London home of the daughter of a former Bombay high court judge Gautam Patel mere weeks after she was physically assaulted on a London street. Speaking…

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England Test captain Ben Stokes could step down from the role and may even retire from cricket following the nightclub controversy involving him and teammate Gus Atkinson, according to a report by talkSPORT.The development comes after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) launched an investigation into an incident involving Stokes and Atkinson at a…

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NEW DELHI: A Puducherry consumer commission has held a restaurant liable for serving contaminated food and directed it to compensate the customer along with providing 10 free plates of biriyani after a dead insect was found in a plate of biriyani.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Puducherry, comprising S. Mouttouvel (President), A.S. Suvitha (Member) and…

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Zooplankton, Copepod, Leptodiaptomus minutus, male| Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons When acid rain swept across parts of Ontario in the 1960s, it had a dramatic effect on freshwater ecosystems.Populations of fish were wiped out, many microscopic aquatic species declined, and vast areas of lakes became far more acidic than they had been in centuries. Amidst the…

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A tiny fossil, Saccorhytus coronarius, once thought to be a human ancestor from China’s Cambrian era, has been reclassified. Advanced imaging revealed supposed gill slits were broken spines, excluding it from the deuterostome lineage. Image Credit: Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome Fig 1 There was once an extraordinary little animal…

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This bus ticket is an AI-generated image This story is fake as the bus ticket turned out to be AI-generated and circulated on social media. The passenger, identified in the copy as P Damadoran, remains incommunicado despite TOI reaching out to him several times over the phone to seek his clarification and establish the authenticity…

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Afghanistan’s Sediqullah Atal gets bowled by India’s Prasidh Krishna on day two of Test cricket match between India and Afghanistan, in Mullanpur. (PTI Photo) Afghanistan head coach Richard Pybus admitted that his team’s approach in the one-off Test against India showed signs of “naivety”, saying the lack of exposure to red-ball cricket played a major…

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The Centre on Monday reduced the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders available annually to beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) from nine to four aligning the support with average household consumption levels, a senior government official said. Under the flagship scheme launched in May 2016, beneficiaries were initially entitled to 12 subsidised…

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All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Kalyan Chaubey, and Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya NEW DELHI: Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday assured the Indian Super League (ISL) clubs that the upcoming 2026-27 season will go ahead as planned. But in a major development, the club proposal has been finalised for the next four…

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Damadoran posted the ticket in social media that went viral, evoking sarcastic comments. KRISHNAGIRI: Call it an error of the electronic ticketing machine or on the part of the Tamil Nadu State Trasport Corporation bus conductor, a passenger was shocked to get a ticket to Dubai with a fare of Rs 10,000 at Bhavani on…

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