Bengaluru: Chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday sought three months’ time to clear long-pending bills worth over Rs 37,370 crore owed to contractors for works executed under various departments.Shivakumar assured the contractors that he would resolve their issues after holding talks soon with officials from the concerned department and the finance department.A delegation from the Karnataka…
More than 13 years after a drunken driving crash in Egmore claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy and injured five others, a Chennai sessions court convicted EMPEE Group scion Shaji Purushothaman for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other offences. The court issued a non-bailable warrant against him after he failed to appear…
Telangana strengthens aerospace push with three new airfields: N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Irrigation Minister Hyderabad: Telangana govt is planning to develop three new aviation facilities across the state, with the foundation stone for the proposed Warangal airfield scheduled to be laid next month, said the minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies, N Uttam Kumar Reddy.Addressing…
Gurgaon: After a largely dry June, Gurgaon is likely to see a significant change in weather over the coming days.India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a sharp increase in rainfall activity from Wednesday, saying conditions are favourable for the southwest monsoon to advance into parts of Haryana within the next three to four days. IMD…
Kolkata: The cyclonic circulation over the north Bay of Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh is likely to trigger the formation of a low-pressure area over northwest Bay of Bengal and its neighbourhood around Friday. With this system set to revive the monsoon flow, the city and parts of south Bengal are likely to get heavy to…
Ghaziabad: In a move aimed at ending years of limbo over who maintains large private townships, UP govt has fixed strict timelines for handing them over to municipal corporations — a shift that could directly affect thousands of residents caught between paying civic taxes and hefty private maintenance charges.The state has issued a new standard…
TNNCalangute: Heavy rain on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday led to water seeping into an underground petrol storage tank at a fuel station in Saligao, resulting in widespread vehicle breakdowns on Tuesday morning.A large number of vehicles, mostly two-wheelers, developed engine trouble shortly after refuelling at the pump. Several of them would not…
Varanasi: Acting on the directions of an Azamgarh court, officials on Monday froze Rs 2.33 lakh in the bank account of a man accused of fraudulently availing govt welfare scheme benefits despite having acquired Malaysian citizenship.The amount, allegedly obtained through forged documents, will now be transferred back to the respective govt scheme accounts.The accused, Mohd…
Ahmedabad: Marking its platinum jubilee, the Chartered Accountants Association, Ahmedabad (CAAA) will host the fourth edition of its Articleship Mela on July 3.The offline placement event, starting at 10am, serves as a trusted platform connecting first-year CA students directly with firms through an online registration and a smart matchmaking system.The mela uses a dashboard-driven process…
To prevent waterlogging, the civic body has prioritised clearing key internal municipal channels, including the Barewal, Dhoka Mohalla, and Domoria Bridge drains. Ludhiana: With the monsoon at the doorstep, the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) is racing against tight deadlines to patch potholes, clear road gulleys, and desilt choked drainage networks. While the civic body missed…
