Firemen rescue 582 stranded passengers after a Monorail rake got stuck between Bhakti Park and Mysore Colony for two hours on August 19, 2025 Mumbai: The President’s Medal for Gallantry has been announced for 13 fire officials and personnel, including the Chief Fire Officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, on the occasion of Independence Day…
Organ Donation Day commemorated at Nimhans Bengaluru: Since it began functioning as a non-transplant organ retrieval centre in 2018, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans) has facilitated 94 successful organ and tissue donations, according to a report presented Friday to mark Organ Donation Day (Aug 13).The donations enabled the retrieval of 27…
Chennai: A 29-year-old translator employed at a private hospital in Aminjikarai was injured badly after she jumped from the fourth floor of the hospital building.The woman, Swetha Ghosh, was a translator at the private hospital on Nelson Manickam Road for the past seven years. She assisted foreign patients by translating medical information, explaining treatment procedures…
Hyderabad: Reacting to the remarks made by Congress MLA K Rajagopal Reddy, Telangana Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud said party discipline would be strictly maintained and that no one would be allowed to speak publicly against the party line.Earlier, Rajagopal Reddy had said that those who have come from other parties into Congress were dominating…
Kolkata: The BMC has taken up the repair of over 180 stretches at a cost of nearly Rs 62.6 crore. About 63 roads are in Salt Lake and the rest in Rajarhat Gopalpur.Officials said while concrete blocks would be laid at some places, some stretches would be repaired with bitumen mastic and at others, concrete-cast…
Panaji: Ten 53-seater semi-luxury buses were inducted into the Kadamba Transport Corporation Ltd (KTC) fleet on Friday. Chief minister Pramod Sawant, transport minister Mauvin Godinho and KTC chairperson Ulhas Tuyekar flagged off the new buses at the Panaji bus terminus.Private bus operators needed to become part of Goa’s public transport system, Sawant said at the…
Varanasi: Police arrested three members of an inter-district theft gang following separate encounters at different locations in Azamgarh on Thursday night. Two of the accused sustained bullet injuries during exchanges of fire and were admitted to hospital for treatment. Police also recovered yellow-metal items, a motorcycle, illegal firearms, cartridges and cash from their possession.According to…
Ahmedabad: Blood donation camps may save lives, but they don’t qualify for GST relief. Gujarat Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that organising a blood donation camp does not qualify as a charitable activity for GST exemption. In the same order, however, the authority held that organising yoga camps does fall within the definition…
Jind khap councils have moved to suppress marriages within the same village or clan lineage, declaring a social boycott of those involved Jind: The Naugama Khap in Jind, which has recently come into the spotlight over discussions surrounding love marriages, live-in relationships and homosexuality, has now decided to convene a women’s khap mahapanchayat in Ramrai…
Pune: Pune Rural police on Friday registered a case against a man from Pune city on the charge of outraging the modesty of a 14-year-old girl. The girl’s mother lodged a complaint with the police.An officer from the Pune Rural police said the girl had come into contact with the man in June. He had…
