Govt Tuesday halved sugar stock holding limit for dealers to 2,000 quintals NEW DELHI: Govt Tuesday halved sugar stock holding limit for dealers to 2,000 quintals from Sept 15 till Nov 30, in its bid to ensure adequate availability in the domestic market and prevent hoarding and speculative trading. The move comes as retail prices…
The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in 2021. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) The Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents has officially chosen the historic Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall as the permanent home of the National Museum of the American Latino. The decision ends a long debate over the museum’s location and removes…
Swara Bhasker has responded to the criticism she received after describing the Jauhar sequence in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat as “problematic.” The actress questioned the message conveyed by the scene, particularly its portrayal of women choosing death rather than facing sexual violence.Taking to Instagram Stories, Swara hit back at those who were offended by her…
File Pic – Argentina’s Lionel Messi kisses the trophy after winning the World Cup in 2022. (AP/PTI Photo) It was morning in Miami and late evening in India as Lionel Messi’s announcement through an Instagram post flooded social media. Having seen him light up our lives for two decades, the world suddenly felt strangely empty,…
Some planetary movements change the mood before they change circumstances. Venus entering Libra is one of them.Shukra has been travelling through Virgo, a sign where its natural qualities do not find easy expression. Relationships can become overly analytical, pleasure may come with guilt, and even good things may not feel satisfying enough. This begins to…
New Delhi: To make sure that money paid for public utilities is used only for the dedicated purpose, the Master Plan for Delhi 2047 has provided a ring-fenced mechanism to manage development charges through an escrow account in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects.This means that when a developer pays money to build roads, for example,…
The two got separated during the rush at the station Mumbai: A Wadala resident died after he allegedly leapt off a moving train onto a platform to catch up with a friend he had got separated from at Nagpur station on Monday. Nagpur GRP said Aslam Shaikh, a BJP activist, and his friend took a…
Bengaluru: Bowing to mounting pressure from citizen groups, resident welfare associations, walkers and opposition parties, chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday said the controversial Parks bill will be reintroduced during the Winter session of the legislature, likely in Nov-Dec, giving the opposition ample opportunity to debate it.The Karnataka Government Parks (Preservation) (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which allows…
CHENNAI: Weeks after returning from World U-20 Championships, Tamil Nadu’s Neil Samraj broke the youth national record twice in boys 100m at National Youth Athletics Championships in Ludhiana on Tuesday. The 17-year-old clocked 10.46 seconds in final to bag gold and solidified his position to qualify for the Youth Olympics in Dakar later this year.“I…
Hyderabad: Nearly 69% of Telangana’s registered GST taxpayers are based in Hyderabad, but the city accounted for 91.1% of the state’s GST collections in Aug. Hyderabad’s GST collections grew 20.53% year on year to ₹3,956 crore, while GST collections per registered taxpayer worked out to about ₹98,900, against ₹74,845 for Telangana as a whole.According to…
