Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin, finance minister Thangam Thennarasu and industries minister T R B Rajaa on Tuesday lauded Tamil Nadu’s 10.8% economic growth rate for 2025-26. According to the report released by Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation recently, this is the second consecutive year that the state is registering a double-digit…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday made a direct appeal to Maoist leader Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathi to return to the mainstream, assuring full support, protection and medical care from govt.Speaking after laying the foundation for Future City police commissionerate building at Meerkhanpet in Rangareddy district, the CM said the govt was…
Kolkata: The Hastings Police started a criminal case involving charges of defamation, criminal intimidation and wrongful restraint after a road-rage incident on Vidyasagar Setu on April 24. The case was registered on Sunday.According to the complainant, an advocate, a cab driver endangered his life and launched a malicious social media campaign to tarnish his professional…
Ahmedabad: When results of the AMC elections were announced on Tuesday, the BJP secured a massive mandate with 160 seats, but the most talked-about outcome came from Khadia ward in the Old City area. Long regarded as a BJP stronghold for over four decades, Khadia sprung a major surprise as the Congress swept all four…
Chandigarh: Describing the “attempted” blast on the Rajpura-Shambhu railway track as “deeply alarming and utterly shameful”, Congress leader and Gurdaspur MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Tuesday lambasted both the Punjab govt and the Centre.The former deputy chief minister of Punjab said, “The Rajpura-Shambhu railway track is one of the busiest and most strategically critical rail…
Pune: A 36-year-old software engineer from Shewalwadi near Hadapsar lost Rs 2.3 crore between Jan 26 and March 11 after falling for high returns bait in an online share-trading scam.The Pune cyber police registered an FIR on Monday after verifying her complaint application.Senior inspector Swapnali Shinde of the Pune cyber police told TOI, “The complainant…
Judge Flags Major Gaps In Police VersionLucknow: A local court has acquitted Manoj Chauhan in a six-year-old encounter case in the Alapur area of Ambedkarnagar observing that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.The case dates to Sept 18, 2020, when police claimed that Station House Officer Brijesh Kumar Singh and his…
NEW DELHI: In a significant move targeting single-use plastic in tobacco-related products, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed a complete shift to non-plastic packaging for pan masala, gutka and similar items.A draft amendment to the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018, released on Tuesday, mandates that these products be…
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has unveiled new immigration fee rules under the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Act of 2025, warning that asylum seekers who fail to pay a newly introduced annual charge could face rejection of their cases, loss of work permits and possible removal from the country.The interim final rule is aimed…
New Delhi: Govt has indicated to exporters that Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) may run container ships to West Asia to help them tide over the problem of high freight costs.Responding to complaints over high input and freight costs, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal is said to have conveyed SCI’s plan during a meeting…
