Bengaluru: In a bid to promote healthier eating habits among children, Karnataka govt Friday announced a ban on sale, free distribution, advertisement and promotion of high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) food products within school and pre-university college campuses, canteens and a 50-metre radius around them. The move comes just after Maharashtra issued a similar…
Chennai: To curb tender irregularities and prevent officials from bypassing mandatory approval norms, the Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) has barred urban local bodies from splitting a single project into multiple smaller estimates to evade state govt’s administrative and financial scrutiny.Officials said that for projects above ₹10 crore, the local body must get the approval…
Hyderabad: With only a week left for completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), election authorities have identified 48.3 lakh electors for deletion from Telangana’s voter rolls, accounting for 14.2% of the state’s 3.38 crore electorate. The number could rise further, with nearly 29.5 lakh enumeration forms yet to be digitised. The deadline for SIR…
Gurgaon: A 38-year-old man was found dead in a pond in Sidhrawali on Thursday afternoon, prompting police to initiate inquest proceedings to ascertain the cause of death.According to police, the deceased, Nitin, a resident of Jharsa village, went to visit relatives in Sidhrawali and had been missing since Wednesday night. No missing person complaint was…
Kolkata: The state will prepare a ‘Vision-2047’ document for Greater Kolkata Metropolitan Region for urban expansion and long-term infrastructure planning, including elevated urban corridors and economic growth in MKA and its immediate influence areas for the next 20 years.KMDA is inviting consultancy proposals to finetune the infrastructure upgrade plans, such as developing a Kolkata Metropolitan…
Ghaziabad: Police have arrested a 30-year-old man for strangling and killing his lover after she refused to live with his daughters. A mobile phone with a picture of the woman after she was killed was also found in his possession.ACP (Loni) Ram Kisan said on Thursday, police received a written complaint from the woman’s son…
Panaji: RG’s disciplinary committee has issued a formal notice to former party treasurer Ajay Kholkar, directing him to appear before the committee as part of ongoing disciplinary proceedings. The notice was issued by the disciplinary committee late on Thursday.Given that the party’s central executive committee (CEC) had leveled allegations against 10 suspended members (Aditya Dessai,…
Ahmedabad: A retiree has accused the directors and managers of an investment company of cheating him and several investors of Rs 21.8 lakh by allegedly failing to honour fixed deposit and monthly income schemes after collecting investments over several years.An FIR was registered with Navrangpura police on Thursday against the directors and managers of Unique…
“Brahmos” missile (R) and other Army tanks with other weapons on display at Parliament House in New Delhi Pune: India’s Secretary of Defence Production, Sanjeev Kumar, on Friday said industrial accidents in India’s defence, explosives and propellant manufacturing sector are a result of human complacency, advocating for more automation and digital technology to ensure complete…
Times News Network Due to the rain and winds, an electricity wire was drooping over the bridge they were crossing Surat: Three labourers were electrocuted in Gandevi taluka of Navsari district on Friday morning, when they were among nine persons in a tempo headed to a work site. En route, the tempo carrying them touched…
