Mumbai: Concerns have been raised over a large number of imitation jewellery manufacturing units operating in slum pockets across Mumbai without the requisite licences as well as over their use of hazardous chemicals, such as nitric acid and sulphuric acid.A corporator, who raised the issue at BMC’s general body meeting on Monday, said these toxic…
Bengaluru: A dangling cable from a low tree branch on a footpath could well be the noose you were not prepared for. So are TV cables hanging loose across buildings or poles on narrow streets; worse are black wires on the road left unattended. These could turn fatal in squally weather and heavy-rain evenings when…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday urged former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan to make recommendations and also suggestions regarding the formation of a committee to examine the integration of AI into the curricula of school, higher, technical and medical education in the state.The former RBI Governor remarked that if AI is utilised in…
Gurgaon/Lucknow: Four UP Police personnel and a complainant in a kidnapping case died on Tuesday morning when their Scorpio, headed for a raid of a suspected hideout, crashed into a truck on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway in Nuh during an overtaking attempt.The crash occurred around 10.30am, about a kilometre before Dhulawat toll plaza. Police said the SUV…
Ghaziabad: A local court on Monday sentenced a man to seven years in prison and imposed a cumulative fine of Rs 7,000 for dowry harassment after his wife died by suicide within two years of their marriage.Judge Manish Nigam of the additional district and sessions court convicted Kavinagar resident Rajesh Yadav under sections 498A (cruelty…
Panaji: In a move that may bring relief to residents of Panaji and visitors, state govt on Tuesday banned taxis from parking in the city’s general parking lots.North Goa collector Ankit Yadav issued a notification to this effect on the recommendation of the DySP (traffic), that Panaji, being the capital, sees a heavy influx of…
Varanasi: An accused of abduction, and rape attempt on a minor girl was arrested by Chaubeypur police after an encounter near Singhpur underpass late on Monday night.DCP Varuna Zone Pramod Kumar, on Tuesday, said that the 20-year-old accused took a 6-year-old girl and her younger sister, 5, of a village under the limits of Chaubeypur…
Ludhiana: AI-generated imagery is landing students of this city’s elite private schools in the sights of the cybercrime cell.“Clothes-swapping” apps to sabotage rivals and weaponising deepfake technology to bully and harass classmates are the dark side of the digital classroom. The Ludhiana cybercrime cell has received six complaints in six weeks involving fraudulent social media…
Bathinda: Farmer forum Kisan Mazdoor Morcha’ Punjab Chapter has raised concern over the decision to put on hold a proposal to increase credit limit of farmers in cooperative societies. Morcha leaders on Tuesday stated that the state government some time ago had issued a notification to increase the credit limit, but now that decision has…
Aizawl: A fresh influx of refugees from Myanmar’s Chin state has been reported in southern Champhai district, with 42 people taking shelter in Saikhumphai hamlet along the India-Myanmar border, a local Young Mizo Association (YMA) leader in Saikhumphai said Tuesday.Saikhumphai hamlet, under Vaphai village council, lies on the banks of the Tiau river and is…
