New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta has sought ₹100 crore from centre to accelerate the implementation of PM-UDAY scheme, providing property rights to residents of 1,511 unauthorised colonies in the national capital, according to a CMO statement Sunday.In a letter written to union minister for housing and urban affairs Manohar Lal, CM pointed out that…
Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai Mumbai: India made a clean sweep at the 56th International Physics Olympiad, with all five students in its contingent winning gold medals and placing the country jointly at the top of the medals table.The olympiad was held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5-12. The gold medallists are Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai,…
Food delivery firms are redesigning pricing, discounts and menus to turn occasional office orders into an everyday lunchtime habit Bengaluru: The bill had to work. And it did. It was reason enough for a group of Bengaluru officegoers to band together and create a separate WhatsApp group just for meal orders.“The other day, eight wraps…
VCK president Thol Thirumavalavan Chennai: VCK president Thol Thirumavalavan on Sunday blamed DMK’s handling of its allies for the debacle and the subsequent disintegration of the alliance.“If DMK had promised a share in power, allotted more seats to alliance parties and accommodated their seat preferences, it would not have suffered such a setback in the…
Stench & waste haunt Punjagutta Metro walkway Hyderabad: A narrow stretch beneath the Punjagutta Metro station has become an open dumping site, with small heaps of dry and wet waste, food leftovers and empty liquor bottles scattered across the area. Despite repeated cleaning drives by civic authorities, the stench, coupled with swarms of mosquitoes and…
With the SIR phase 1 deadline on July 14, around half of voters in the city are yet to be enumerated Gurgaon: A combination of inaccessible gated communities, demanding work schedules, complicated documentation requirements and technological limitations has slowed the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in one of Haryana’s most urbanised districts.Hoping to…
Kolkata: Scottish Church College has been granted a No Objection Certificate (NoC) by Calcutta University (CU) to apply for autonomy status from the University Grants Commission (UGC). While the college had applied to the UGC for autonomous status in May, it simultaneously requested the necessary certificate from the university. Following this appeal, the university issued…
A two-storeyed building which was being built on land proposed for the Tappal-Bajna Urban Centre was demolished as part of the drives Noida: Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) on Saturday carried out anti-encroachment drives at two locations, reclaiming nearly 2 lakh square metres of land worth an estimated Rs 700 crore.In the first drive…
Goa’s traditional salt industry is on the brink. The sun that once turned Goa’s estuaries into sheets of white gold now sets on empty pans. From over hundreds of active salt pans, merely 50 survive today. A trade that fed Goa kitchens for centuries is dying — quietly under a burning sunFor over 1,500 years,…
Ahmedabad: An inheritance meant for charity became the subject of a courtroom battle that lasted more than three decades. When Kantilal Shah died in 1994, he left behind not just his properties, but also two competing wills: one favouring a Vadodara NGO, and another naming a doctor as the beneficiary. Gujarat High Court has now…
