MUMBAI: A controversy has erupted over the alleged diversion of 190.79 million cubic metres (MCM) of water to the Kumbh Mela from the stock that was reserved for areas in drought-hit Marathwada. Representatives of the Marathwada Samnyayi Paniwatap Sangharsh Samiti (MSPSS) met state irrigation offic»»»

Capitec group CIO Andrew Baker Capitec is deliberately keeping open bank accounts it has identified as being used by fraud syndicates, so that criminals can spend weeks working a victim only to find the stolen money held by the bank when it finally arrives. The tactic, which Capitec calls the “ghos»»»

Alexander Schweitzer, who belongs to Germany’s SPD has been appointed as the country’s next labour minister. He will succeed Baerbal Bas, who resigned from his post. Schweitzer currently serves as the head of ​the Social Democrats' parliamentary ‌group in the western state of ​Rhineland-Palatinate.»»»

Kushal Srivastava, who bid the MiG-21 farewell in The Last Salute, poses with one at Janeshwar Mishra Park. “People spoke about that aircraft as if it were a person,” he says of the jet, retired in 2025 (BCCL/Aditya Yadav) For Lucknowite and filmmaker Kushal Srivastava, Operation Safed Sagar is mor»»»