T’puram: Kundara police arrested a 26-year-old man accused of trespassing into houses and sexually assaulting women in various parts of the region.The accused, identified as Gokul Krishna of Umayanalloor, was nabbed from Kottiyam police station limits with the assistance of locals after he allegedly attempted to evade arrest.Police said the arrest was made in connection…
By late June, the heat has a way of changing how a prayer feels. A glass of water looks different. A mantra sounds different. Even the simple act of sitting before a diya, the oil lamp, can carry more weight when the day itself asks for restraint. That is part of what makes the 2026…
Times News NetworkKanpur: A camphor businessman’s son residing in Balaji Dham Apartment, within the Pheel Khana police station jurisdiction in the city, succumbed to injuries on Tuesday morning at Lala Lajpat Rai (LLR) Hospital. He had been stabbed by his wife a few days ago. Following completion of the investigation, police have dispatched the body…
On some June mornings, the question arrives before the tea does. Is Adhik Maas over today, or tomorrow? Can we restart postponed family work now? And if Mithuna Sankranti falls the same day, which custom takes priority at home?That confusion is familiar because this is one of those calendar moments where a sacred extra month,…
The habit returns in small ways first. A family WhatsApp group that had gone quiet on wedding dates begins buzzing again. Someone asks the pandit for a griha-pravesh, the house-entering rite. Someone else reopens a notebook where possible engagement days were pencilled in and then crossed out during Adhik Maas, the extra lunar month set…
Kanpur: Two eight-year-old cousins drowned in the Pandu river near Purwa Bhawan village under the Bela police station area in Auraiya on Sunday. The children, Vishnu and Ansh, had accompanied family members to graze goats along the riverbank and entered the river for a bath when the tragedy occurred.According to family members, Vishnu was the…
Standing in the courtyard of the Qutb complex in Delhi, the Iron Pillar is one of the most extraordinary achievements of ancient Indian metallurgy. Forged during the Gupta period around the 4th or 5th century CE, the monument has stood beneath the open sky for nearly 1,600 years while showing remarkably little corrosion. Historians widely…
There is a certain hush to an Ekadashi morning. The kitchen is more peaceful, the tea routine shifts the ringing of a bell coming from the puja area seems to reverberate further. In homes that maintain the vrat, one person is already washing the tulsi leaves, while another is examining the panchang and the day…
In many homes, the question arrives before sunrise and before tea. Is this a nirjala fast, waterless, or can we keep phalahar, a fruit-based fast? Does Dwadashi, the twelfth lunar day, break early where we live? Why does one calendar show June 11, whereas a relative insists on a date that is different? Parama Ekadashi…
Both men work as labourers and returned home in the evening to find their children absent Gurgaon: At 10.30pm on Saturday, Lalit, a resident of Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, reached Manesar police station after discovering that his four-year-old son — Veer — was missing. Around the same time, Vishnu, a resident of Etah in Uttar…
