Prashant Kishor met NCP leaders Sunetra and Parth Pawar after his recent election victory. MUMBAI: Jan Suraaj party founder and prominent political strategist Prashant Kishor, who won the Bankipur bypoll in Bihar this week after defeating the BJP, called on the deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar from the NCP and her MP son Parth Pawar,…
A file photo of Flybus operated by the state-owned Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Bengaluru: Air travellers heading to Kerala will soon have a direct overnight bus option from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), with Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) launching a new Flybus service between the airport and Kozhikode from Aug 15.Designed primarily…
Hyderabad: Telangana has extended the Centre-developed framework for fertiliser sales (FFS) to 10 more districts, expanding a digital system aimed at bringing greater transparency to fertiliser distribution and ensuring farmers have real-time access to stock availability.Reviewing the implementation of the programme, agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao said the FFS platform is now operational in Nizamabad,…
Kolkata: A young woman who allegedly attempted suicide at her Behala home on Sunday, was rescued by her father and police and admitted to hospital.During questioning, she alleged she had endured nearly 29 months of repeated sexual assault, forced recording of intimate moments, a forced abortion, extortion and repeated acid attack threats by a man…
Panaji: With fissures emerging within the opposition parties, environmentalists and civic activists have laid out six demands for the opposition parties. Reiterating that a divided opposition gives the current BJP-led govt an advantage, the activists working together under the Priority Goa group said that the six demands will act as “boundary lines” for the opposition…
Cloudy weather in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: After days of relative quiet following July’s heavy downpour, it may be time to bring out the raincoats and umbrellas again. After dealing mostly with overcast skies and the occasional stray drizzle, the city is likely to see light showers on Saturday and Sunday as a fresh spell of rain…
Mohali: Amid mounting complaints over garbage accumulation across the city, Mohali mayor Sarabjit Singh Samana Thursday announced the formation of special teams to identify those involved in illegal waste dumping and promised that all Resource Management Centre (RMC) sites would be cleared of accumulated garbage by Aug 15.The mayor said unauthorised dumping along roadsides and…
Sanitation workers are expected to get raincoats among other facilities Pune: The standing committee on Thursday approved a Rs 8-crore proposal to provide facilities to conservancy staff handling domestic waste. The funds will be utilised to provide 42 facilities, including raincoats to sweepers and waste collectors. The committee’s chairman Shrinath Bhimale said the funds will…
Lucknow: Three people, including a Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) sanitation worker, were injured in separate stray dog attacks across the city over the past two days, raising fresh concerns over the worsening stray dog menace.A day after a woman sanitation worker was bitten by a stray dog in Jankipuram Extension, two more residents were attacked…
Family members opposed shifting the body from the MCH to the mortuary, stood in front of the stretcher to stop it, and a large crowd gathered on the hospital premises 19-year-old woman, Lalita Meena Family members opposed shifting the body from the MCH to the mortuary, stood in front of the stretcher to stop it,…
