New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta Wednesday said ensuring women’s safety cannot be reduced to imposing restrictions on girls and called for greater focus on the behaviour and upbringing of boys. She also stressed the responsibility of the police, civic agencies and courts in making the capital safer.Addressing the diamond jubilee celebrations of Maitreyi College,…
Picture for representation Mumbai: A 21-year-old man, Aniket Padiya, was injured after a tree fell on him in Unit No. 3, Aarey Colony, Ektanagar, Goregaon (East) at around 11 pm on Tuesday. According to civic officials, complaints of falling trees/branches were received from citizens from a total of 91 locations in the city, and the…
A file photo of Karnataka Energy Minister KJ George during the launch of the Gruha Jyothi scheme, one of the Congress government’s five guarantee schemes. Bengaluru: With the deadline to weed out ineligible beneficiaries of the Gruha Jyothi free-power scheme already over, Bescom has sought one final 15-day window for thousands of consumers who have…
CHENNAI: Greater Chennai Police commissioner A Amalraj on Wednesday directed police personnel to clear 58 grievance petitions which he received from the public during the weekly public grievance camp held at his office in Vepery.The commissioner directed the police officers concerned to take swift and appropriate action and ensure that the grievances were addressed at…
Hyderabad: As Telangana’s former Maoists seek a role in mainstream politics, emerging ideological and organisational differences have led them down separate paths. While former Maoist leader Lanka Papi Reddy has launched the Jana Telangana Party with an eye on electoral politics, other prominent former rebels have chosen to build a broader social and political front…
The approval ends a wait of nearly two months for the Phase 2 tender, which had raised concerns over the project’s 2029 completion target Gurgaon: Haryana govt has approved the proposal for civil works on the second phase of the upcoming metro corridor between Millennium City Centre and Cyber City. The project will now move…
‘Rewarding can motivate students’ Kolkata: Principals and faculty members of affiliated colleges welcomed Calcutta University’s decision to reintroduce marks for attendance in undergraduate classes, aimed at bringing truant students back to classrooms.Syndicate, CU’s highest decision-making body, on Tuesday gave the approval to award 25 marks for internal assessment to UG students, among which 5 marks…
Noida: An additional sessions court has sentenced three brothers to a life term in prison for killing their sister’s boyfriend and disposing of his body in a canal in 2022. The court held that the case did not fall in the “rarest of the rare” category and awarded life terms instead of capital punishment.It, however,…
The high-level meeting, chaired by chief minister Bhupendra Patel and deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi, focused on implementing the ‘One Border-One Picture-One Chain of Action’ approach Gandhinagar: The state govt on Wednesday reviewed its four-pronged security grid for the state’s border districts, with the state and central agencies deciding to strengthen an integrated framework to…
Bathinda: Punjab tops the crop residue burning cases in the early harvesting season, with the state recording 59 stubble burning incidents between Sept 15 and 30.Of 114 crop residue burning cases recorded so far across six states, Punjab accounts for more than 51%. Uttar Pradesh reported 32 cases, Madhya Pradesh 17, Haryana 3, Rajasthan 2…
