This week begins on a pleasant note, Virgo, with support close at hand. Your spouse, partner, or someone who stands firmly in your corner can make the start of the week feel easier than expected. There is warmth around you, a more romantic frame of mind, and a practical sense that useful alliances can be…
New Delhi: The registration for the much-awaited Delhi Lakshmi Yojana, which promises Rs 2,500 in monthly financial assistance to eligible women, opened Saturday with chief minister Rekha Gupta launching the portal, www.dly.delhi.gov.in.The scheme “aims at strengthening women’s dignity, financial security, the culture of savings”, Gupta said at a programme in east Delhi. In a cabinet…
Mumbai: An alert policewoman averted a suicide attempt by a passenger at Dadar railway station on the Western line recently. CCTVs captured the incident.On July 30, female police constable AA Narvade was patrolling on platform no. 1. Around 10.52 pm, a Borivali-bound slow local started to move from Dadar station. A passenger suddenly lied down…
Bengaluru: The govt-allotted residential sites lying vacant across Karnataka could soon face scrutiny, with the govt warning that unused plots may be taken back if beneficiaries fail to build homes within the stipulated period.Chief minister DK Shivakumar Saturday said beneficiaries of sites allotted by agencies such as the Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA), Karnataka Housing Board…
Chennai: Researchers at the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) have developed a rapid analytical technique to detect cow ghee adulteration and simultaneously identify and quantify multiple adulterants. The technique could offer a low-cost tool to strengthen food quality checks.The study, published in Food Chemistry, uses Angular Sweep Total Fluorescence Spectroscopy (ASTFS), a fluorescence-based analytical…
A vineyard in Tukkuguda, Hyderabad Grapes farm at Thukkuguda near Shamshabad on Saturday. Pic: Suman Reddy D Hyderabad: Rows of grapevines once stretched across vast vineyards on Hyderabad’s outskirts, from Rajendranagar and Maheshwaram to Tukkuguda and Shamirpet.Today, many of those vineyards end at the compound walls of gated communities, logistics parks and warehouses. The area…
. Author and poet Taslima Nasrin at an event at Rabindra Sadan —— Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: A commotion broke out at Rabindra Sadan on Saturday during an event marking exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin’s return to the city after nearly two decades, when she invited noted Bengali poet Joy Goswami to join her on stage….
Aizawl: Mizoram Police on Friday seized 72.514kg of methamphetamine, worth over Rs 58.01 crore, from a truck at Keifang in Saitual district, in one of the largest drug hauls in the state.Police intercepted the Kolasib-registered truck around 4.30am. The consignment was allegedly being transported from Manipur to Assam, via Mizoram, IGP (headquarters) and state police…
Jaipur: A two-day youth conclave, ‘Push The Envelope’, started at Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Vidyalaya Saturday, where 70 students from across the country participated.The conclave included discussions on National Education Policy, relevance of United Nations, power of social media influencers, among other topics. In the session on NEP, speakers said that stakeholders from the education…
The action followed a seizure of similar counterfeit combat cloth in Bareilly in June this year NEW DELHI: Busting a big racket on counterfeit military uniforms, a joint operation by Indian Army’s intelligence units and Rajasthan police has led to the seizure of nearly 1,000 metres of unauthorised army-pattern combat cloth from shops across the…
