MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR), acting on court directives, removed 45 illegal huts near B D Chawl in Wadi Bunder, close to Hancock Bridge, clearing land for a proposed Vande Bharat maintenance depot. The structures, along with a two-storey construction, had encroached upon railway land for years. Following due legal process, CR carried out a coordinated…
Bengaluru: Musfira Begum, a bubbly girl shopping for her seventh birthday over the weekend, never imagined a happy outing would end in tragedy. Accompanied by mother Mubeen Taj and aunt Tabreen Taj, Musfira wandered through bustling streets, choosing new clothes for the May 3 celebration she was eagerly planning.When the wall near Bowring Hospital, Shivajinagar,…
Chennai: Indian Overseas Bank’s annual net profit crossed Rs 5,000 crore for the first time, with the public sector lender reporting FY26 profit at Rs 5,209 crore, up 56% from Rs 3,335 crore in FY25, driven by higher income and lower provisions and tax expenses.The bank’s operating profit also crossed Rs 10,000 crore for the…
Hyderabad: Telangana’s Class 10 students achieved their best SSC results in recent years on Wednesday, with the overall pass percentage rising to 95.15%, up from 92.78% last year.School education minister K Keshava Rao announced the results at the Godavari auditorium on the SCERT campus, along with principal secretary Yogita Rana and director of school education…
Urban planners said the exercise could have far-reaching implications for residential densification policies in the state Gurgaon: Department of Town and Country Planning (DTCP) has initiated a statewide data-gathering exercise on infrastructure capacity, encroachments and fund utilisation following an interim order by Punjab and Haryana High Court on the stilt-plus-four-floor (S+4) policy.In a memo issued…
KOLKATA: Bhowanipore, long known for its quiet polling days and indifferent turnout among its affluent voters, witnessed an unusually charged election on Wednesday, as high drama, heavy security presence and an energised electorate reshaped the constituency’s voting culture.The upscale pockets of the VIP seat – home to upper- and upper-middle-class residents who traditionally treated polling…
Residents whose flats were damaged have been offered temporary accommodation by neighbours Ghaziabad: A fire ripped through five floors of a residential tower at a housing society in Indirapuram on Wednesday morning, burning down eight flats. Fortunately, around 20 people on the affected floors and in the flats were rescued on time. Around 10 people…
Panaji: Censuring cattle owners for releasing their cattle onto the roads, chief minister Pramod Sawant directly blamed them for the loss of lives in road accidents.Pointing out that the state’s roads are much busier than before, Sawant said that if cattle owners do not take responsibility for their animals, then village panchayats need to round…
Varanasi: Tahbarpur cops in Azamgarh district caught a juvenile on Tuesday night on the charges of killing a 22-year-old man during a wedding function on Monday night.Police said the accused asked the man, Suraj Prajapati, to assist him in bringing some disposable utensils. When Suraj went with the accused, the latter hacked him to death…
Ahmedabad: Boosted by unmatched support from the electorate in Gujarat, especially urban voters, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured nearly 60% of all the votes cast in polls for municipal corporations in the state. The saffron party stamped its dominance over the state’s urban landscape, pocketing 59.36% of the vote share.The Congress came in…
