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The Bengaluru police Thursday said they took into custody a robotics engineer based in Chennai and questioned her in connection with hoax bomb threat emails to schools. Rene Joshilda, 30, was earlier arrested by the Gujarat cyber police after she allegedly sent an email which suggested that she was responsible for the June 12 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed 241 people on board and others. The Bengaluru police took Joshilda into custody on October 28 and handed her back to the Gujarat police after questioning. In Bengaluru, Joshilda faces six cases of sending hoax bomb threats, including…

Patna/Mahua/Muzaffarpur: It’s an hour to midnight, and Patna is nowhere close to calling it a day.The newly-built Ganga riverfront — which the Bihar capital calls its ‘Marine Drive’ — is bustling with activity. Groups of youngsters are sipping chai and making reels on their smartphones. It’s their only reprieve. They spend days and months buried in books to clear competitive exams. “Youth toh sabse pehle rozgaar chaahta hai, chaahe koi bhi ho (the youth wants jobs, more than anything, no matter who it is),” Ankit Kumar, a student preparing for the Teacher Recruitment Examination (TRE) organised by Bihar Public Service Commission, told…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Voter turnout for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, held on Thursday, has surpassed expectations, with 60.13 per cent of eligible voters casting their ballots by 5 PM, exceeding the turnout of the previous election. In the 2020 election, voter participation in these 121 constituencies was 55.81 per cent, marking a significant improvement from the previous election. In 2020, the overall voter turnout for the 243-seat Assembly was 58.7 per cent, while the 2015 elections recorded 56.9 per cent. In this first phase, voters from 18 districts…

The BJP will be upping its “vote jihad” campaign in Maharashtra as a response to the Opposition’s allegations regarding electoral lists in the state ahead of the local polls, with Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi’s ‘H-Files’ press conference on Haryana Wednesday expected to give them a fillip.“We took the anti-Constitution narrative of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) lightly in last year’s Lok Sabha polls and paid a heavy price. It served as an eye-opener. Now, we are determined to counter every issue effectively, with our ‘vote jihad’ campaign,” a BJP poll manager told The Indian Express. The BJP…

A team of U.S. researchers has recovered what may be the oldest sample of Earth’s atmosphere ever directly observed—air sealed inside Antarctic ice dating back more than 5 million years. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide new insight into atmospheric conditions during the late Miocene to early Pliocene, long before the onset of Earth’s modern ice ages. The breakthrough came from East Antarctica’s Allan Hills, a site already known for preserving ancient ice. There, wind and glacial movement expose deep layers of ice near the surface, offering rare access to prehistoric climate data…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom As the first phase of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 unfolded on Thursday, tensions escalated in Lakhisarai constituency after Deputy Chief Minister and BJP candidate Vijay Kumar Sinha alleged that RJD MLC Ajay Kumar Singh and Congress leader Sujeet Kumar tried to capture a polling booth at Nadiawan village with the help of the local administration. Later in the day, chaos erupted as slippers and stones were hurled at Sinha’s car, prompting the Election Commission of India (ECI) to order strict action against those involved. Sinha, who had gone…

Sonja Flemming/CBS Contains spoilers for “NCIS” Season 23, Episode 4 — “Gone Girls” Tim McGee (Sean Murray) is a bit of a renaissance man — father, husband, NCIS member, cybersecurity expert, and author. During Season 23’s “Gone Girls,” a chunk of his past comes back to haunt him when he’s recognized as his mystery thriller writing alter ego Thom E. Gemcity (which is an anagram from Timothy McGee) by a book club member. McGee is shocked to be noticed, though it’s not a wholly pleasant experience, as the person in question…

In a rare case of metal-induced preservation, scientists in Italy have uncovered the near-complete mummified remains of a teenage boy whose body was naturally preserved and turned green by prolonged exposure to copper. The burial, dated between 1617 and 1834, is now considered the most comprehensive example of copper-driven mummification known to date. The body was discovered in Narzole, a town in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, inside a wooden coffin lined with copper alloy plates. Over time, the copper corroded and interacted with the surrounding organic material, significantly slowing decay and transforming the remains into a green-hued, partially…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom A high-voltage drama unfolded in Bihar on Thursday, where voting is underway for the first phase of the assembly election, as Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha’s convoy was allegedly attacked in Lakhisarai.  Sinha blamed the Rashtriya Janata Dal for orchestrating the attack, saying the incident was “proof that once in power, the RJD would usher in jungle raj in the state”. “Slippers and cow dung were flung at my convoy,” Sinha alleged in his complaint, as he charged the local administration with inaction. “Stones were also thrown. The…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom As the first phase of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 got underway on Thursday, the election campaign for the second phase reached fever pitch, with both the NDA and Mahagathbandhan holding high-voltage rallies across the state. Top leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh campaigned for the NDA, while Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the charge for the Opposition alliance. Sharp political barbs and charged rhetoric dominated the trail as both sides sought…