Hyderabad: Chief minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday announced a slew of women empowerment schemes, assuring that the govt would provide land to women members of self-help groups (SHGs) to establish supermarkets, logistics parks, godowns, petrol bunks and rice mills. The govt will also facilitate bank linkage loans at zero per cent interest for these…
Gurgaon: More than 42,000 people received anti-rabies vaccines at govt health facilities in the city in 2025, indicating that animal bite and exposure cases remain alarmingly high.According to data accessed by TOI, 42,613 people were administered anti-rabies vaccines between Jan and Dec 2025 — around 117 cases every day, or nearly five people every hour….
Kolkata: A proposed metro line between Baranagar and Barrackpore stuck for nearly 16 years got a fresh push on Monday after Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), the implementing agency for the corridor, met civic officials at Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters to iron out the issues plaguing the project.The 12.5-km Pink Line was sanctioned in 2010…
Eyewitnesses said the fire engulfed the shanties within minutes Noida: A fire broke out near Kherli Hafizpur village next to Dankaur railway station on Monday, destroying around 25 shanties and leaving several families homeless. The blaze spread rapidly through the cluster of temporary shanties, forcing residents to run for safety along with whatever belongings they…
Panaji: RG MLA Viresh Borkar broke his silence on the turmoil within the party and said that founder president Manoj Parab’s resignation saddened him. Borkar quashed suggestions that he wanted to “take over” the party. He also reiterated that he will contest the St Andre seat again as RG candidate.Borkar, who claimed to have travelled…
Varanasi: A man accused of repeatedly raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl and forcing her to take abortion pills was shot in the leg and arrested after an encounter with Karanda police in Ghazipur early Monday.CO (Sadar) Shekhar Sengar said a case was registered on Sunday after the girl became pregnant and was allegedly given…
Gandhinagar: The state govt has initiated intensive screening of passengers arriving at the Ahmedabad airport from African countries like Uganda, Congo and South Sudan in view of the Ebola outbreak in these countries. While there have been no suspected cases in Gujarat yet, state health minister Praful Pansheriya on Monday said that following the Centre’s…
Ludhiana: A 16-year-old boy has died in hospital four days after being ambushed and hacked by a gang of armed juveniles while running errands in the city.Sahil, had recently finished his Class-X examinations and was travelling by motorcycle with his cousin to purchase vegetables on May 21. When the pair neared a govt service centre…
Chandigarh: Leader of the opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Monday accused the AAP govt and the assembly speaker, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, of the “systematic destruction of democratic safeguards and constitutional conventions” through the appointment of ruling party MLAs as heads of crucial House committees.Bajwa expressed displeasure over the appointment of…
Pune: Several districts, including Pune, Navi Mumbai and Nagpur, may now have to rely on reserve staff for the ongoing house-listing exercise for Census 2027 after Bombay high court’s vacation bench stayed the state govt’s move to deploy teachers and non-teaching staff from private unaided schools for compulsory census duties.The stay order, especially during the…
