Ludhiana: With day temperature shooting up to 43 degrees Celsius, stepping outdoors in the city on Thursday was both uncomfortable and perilous. The meteorological department has forecast heat wave to severe heat wave in Ludhiana in the next few days.Even the partly cloudy sky could not mellow the effect of the rising mercury. According to…
Mohali: Acting on Supreme Court directions on stray dog management, Mohali deputy commissioner Komal Mittal has asked all civic bodies in the district to identify land for setting up dog pounds, alongside initiating measures to handle rabid and aggressive canines.Mittal said the directions align with apex court guidelines on managing ferocious and rabid stray dogs….
Pune: A ‘virtual friend’ duped a 28-year-old woman from Kharadi of Rs 15.50 lakh on the promise of sending her jewellery and garments from Finland.The fraud took place in June last year. The woman filed an online complaint after realising that she had been duped. Following preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Chandannagar…
Dibrugarh: One person was killed and several others injured when a severe storm swept through parts of upper Assam on Thursday, damaging number of houses across Tingkhong in Dibrugarh district and Sonari in Charaideo district.The fatality was reported from the Udaipur area under Tingkhong around 3am, when a large tree was uprooted by strong winds…
Lucknow: The UP vigilance establishment’s Jhansi team on Wednesday arrested two officials of the regional ayurvedic and unani department in Lalitpur allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a complainant seeking a clinic licence.The accused have been identified as Arjun Lal Ahirwar and Ramakrishna Gupta. Both were caught red-handed during an operation conducted…
Jaipur: A 13-month-old girl died after being allegedly run over by a car in Jaipur’s Siddharth Nagar area Thursday evening, police said.The incident sparked outrage, with grieving family members staging a protest outside EHCC Hospital and demanding the immediate arrest of the driver.According to police, the accident occurred around 5pm when the child, identified as…
NTA told a parliamentary committee on Thursday that it was looking at phasing out reliance on test-delivery agencies by developing in-house capabilities – covering both software and hardware – to tighten the circle with access to the question-setting process, minimising possibility of malpractices. Higher education secretary Vineet Joshi and NTA director general Abhishek Singh briefed…
Elon Musk agrees with what Jeff Bezos says on philanthropy. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in his interview with CNBC, said his businesses do more good to the society than his charity works. Elon Musk seemed to have agreed with that. “If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit…
Filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari and producer Namit Malhotra are pulling out all the stops to script ‘Ramayana‘ box office success. Now, according to the latest reports, the film may just be raking in the big bucks even beofre it makes its ways to screens worldwide.According to the latest reports, the ambitious mythological epic is already generating…
The day carries a bright social shine. You’ll get honour and respect, and people treat your words seriously. The Sun lifts your public image, so even a casual conversation at work or in the market can turn in your favour.There’s a twist. You might feel a bit confused and you may not be able to…
