Barry Chaudhary

Coimbatore: A 26-year-old man , who was working as a cleaner of a truck carrying vegetables from the Mettupalayam market here to Alappuzha in Kerala, died of injuries he suffered after miscreants pelted stones at the vehicle while it was passing through Kanjikode in the early hours of Monday.The victim was identified as Mubarak Basha of Vadakkalur near Annur in Coimbatore. He began working as a cleaner only a few months ago, truck driver B Noorullah of Mettupalayam told TOI.

BERLIN: Britain's top diplomat warned on Monday that the country could crash out of the European Union next year without an agreement on future relations with Brussels because of the hard line taken by EU negotiators.Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt told reporters in Berlin after meeting German counterpart Heiko Maas that "there is now a very real risk of a Brexit no deal by accident." "This is because I think that many people in the EU are thinking they just have to wait long enough and Britain...

JALALABAD: Standing in a field of roses in eastern Afghanistan, former poppy grower Mohammad Din Sapai quickly but carefully plucks the delicate petals that will be turned into rose water and oils for sale around the world.The sweet smelling crop is providing farmers in Nangarhar province with a viable alternative to growing opium poppies, the sale of which has fuelled the conflict raging across the country."I am very happy with this harvest of flowers," Sapai tells AFP as he stands among...