Chennai: State govt will distribute single-spread (four-muzham) veshtis and zari saris through ration shops for Pongal 2027, instead of the double-fold veshtis distributed under the scheme for the past 12 years, handlooms minister Vijay Balaji told the assembly on Monday.Responding to a calling attention motion moved by DMK’s Austin and KMDK’s K Nithiyanandhan on the…
Hyderabad: In a freak road accident, an unidentified person died in a road accident after he was hit by two different cars at Khajaguda on Monday. Police said two more persons suffered injuries in the accident.At 4.15 am, a 35-year-old pedestrian was crossing the road at Khajaguda when an SUV hit him. The car was…
Gurgaon: A man died during treatment on Sunday, a day after being hit by a speeding car on Golf Course Road in Sector 54. The victim, Sundar, a resident of Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, was hit by a car at around 9.10am on Aug 29.According to a complaint lodged by Sundar’s brother-in-law, Ashok Kumar, at…
A woman mourns the loss of her son outside a cremation ground, in Chitwan, Nepal Kolkata: Six days after the devastating flash flood in Nepal, families of the 37 Bengal tourists still missing in the disaster zone are getting around to confronting questions they had until now been afraid to even articulate: What if their…
Sanctioned at a cost of Rs 48 crore, the four-lane overbridge was to be completed within two years Ghaziabad: A rail overbridge connecting Modinagar and Hapur Road, proposed to ease congestion at a busy railway crossing, remains incomplete two years after work began, affecting around one lakh residents and commuters in the area.The project was…
The nightclub after the fire Panaji: Supreme Court on Monday upheld Bombay high court’s order cancelling bail granted to Birch by Romeo Lane co-owners Gaurav Luthra, Saurabh Luthra, and Ajay Gupta in connection with last year’s Arpora nightclub fire that killed 25 people.“We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and order of…
The stranded shepherds and sheep Varanasi: Twelve shepherds and more than 2,000 sheep, stranded after a sudden rise in the Ganga’s water level turned an area near Duhia Saraiya village in Ghazipur into an island, were safely rescued after a nearly six-hour-long operation by the PAC flood company, police and local boatmen late on Sunday.The…
Ahmedabad: For 17 years, Sangeeta Marwadi’s family was haunted by one agonising question: who had raped and killed the seven-year-old? The clue may have been lying in the child’s clothes all along, preserved as part of the evidence from the 2009 case. It took a fresh examination of the old evidence for cops to find…
PAU scholar Aastha Sood presents her research at the University of Oxford, UK Ludhiana: A Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) PhD scholar showcased research on digitalisation and productivity in India’s food manufacturing sector at the University of Oxford, UK, highlighting the university’s growing presence in international academic forums.Aastha Sood, a scholar in PAU’s department of economics…
Chandigarh: Haryana Police is set to institutionalise artificial intelligence (AI) in policing, with an IPS-led AI Task Force driving technology-based investigations, particularly in cybercrime and financial fraud.The initiative comes amid the growing use of technology by criminals and increasing volumes of digital evidence, banking transactions, mobile records and online activity that investigators have to analyse.DGP…
