Maharashtra Health Minister Prakash Abitkar has assured a thorough probe into the egg-donation racket exploiting poor women in Thane district and warned of strict action against the guilty. Police recently busted the racket, wherein victims were offered ₹25,000 to ₹30,000 per cycle and repeatedly used as egg donors, resulting in physical exploitation. “They were taken...

1 min readNew DelhiFeb 23, 2026 10:54 AM IST Amazon’s cloud unit AWS had suffered an outage impacting a cost-management feature in December, a spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. The Financial Times reported earlier that the service suffered ⁠two ​outages in December stemming from errors involving its own AI tools, citing people familiar with the...

The Special Task Force (STF) of the West Bengal Police has arrested two persons from Murshidabad for allegedly operating an illegal One-Time Password (OTP) sharing racket with suspected cross-border links, officials said. The accused, identified as Juhab and Suman, are alleged to have supplied OTPs and SIM-linked digital access to handlers based in Pakistan and...

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The Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said that the well-marked low-pressure area over the southwest Bay of Bengal recurved northeastwards gradually and lay over the same region at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday. It is very likely to continue to move further northeastwards over southwest Bay of Bengal during the next 36 hours. It is expected to...

Written by: Former railway minister and once TMC number two, who defected to BJP and returned – Mukul Roy passed away Ravik Bhattacharya 3 min readKolkataUpdated: Feb 23, 2026 06:43 AM IST Former Railway Minister and once Trinamool Congress number 2 Mukul Roy passed away on Monday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Roy, 71, was admitted...

A young woman studying physiotherapy at a medical college in Telangana’s Siddipet died by suicide recently. She has been identified as a fresher who hailed from the Peddapalli district of the state. The woman was a student at the Surabhi Medical College located in Mittapalli. She was found hanging from a ceiling fan inside a...

NEW DELHI: Aviation authorities have begun the process of determining how many flights — both domestic and international — will operate this summer. DGCA will weigh in pilot availability while approving summer schedules, effective March 29 to avoid a crisis like the one seen by IndiGo two months ago.Determining pilot availability, however, is proving to...

A team of scientists from the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has developed a wave propulsion-based vertical profiler (WVP) record conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) data in real time. The trial was conducted for a week off the city coast recently. “The U.S. has a similar system, which they call the wire walker. But...

Excel Entertainment, Chalkboard Entertainment and Suitable Pictures’ critically acclaimed movie Boong won the Best Children’s & Family Film award at the 79th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO The Manipuri-language film beat Zootopia 2, Arco and Lilo & Stich to win the award in the Best Children’s & Family Film category....