Mumbai: Residents of New Diamond Palace on Chappal Lane in Santacruz West had a narrow escape from becoming victims of a piped gas scam after receiving calls from fraudsters posing as Mahanagar Gas Ltd (MGL) officials and urging them to download a malicious APK file for “new piped gas registration”.The residents had applied for new…
Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation will develop two major multi-modal integration hubs at Mint Street-Washermenpet Metro and Chepauk-Marina at an estimated cost of 40 crore. The proposed hubs aim to connect metro rail, suburban trains, buses, pedestrians, cyclists and last-mile services.Commuters continue to struggle with poor pedestrian access, chaotic traffic movement and lack of seamless connectivity…
KOLKATA: The saffron tsunami in the Bengal assembly elections, which swept BJP to office for the first time in the state, resulted in the party getting a lead in as many as 102 of the 144 wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), fuelling speculation about how long Trinamool Congress can hold on to the civic…
Ahmedabad: The city crime branch (DCB) on Saturday arrested two alleged bootleggers and seized Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), beer, a car and mobile phones worth Rs 4.6 lakh near Nana Chiloda on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.According to a complaint filed by police constable Vijay Ratansang, the crime branch team was on patrol when they…
Ludhiana: The municipal corporation’s ambitious transition to a paperless “e-nigam” system has hit a logistical bottleneck, with officials forced to wait at least a month for the delivery of essential tablet computers.The project aims to eliminate physical paperwork by shifting all General House and Finance and Contracts Committee meetings to a digital platform. While the…
Times News NetworkPanchkula: The city witnessed peaceful and incident-free polling during the MC elections on Sunday, with heavy police deployment and strict security arrangements ensuring smooth conduct of voting across the district.The polling process remained largely peaceful throughout the day, barring a minor stray incident, and no major untoward situation was reported from any part…
Pune: Daily commuters using the busy stretch between Aga Khan Junction and Tadigutta Chowk are staring at several more months of traffic misery.The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) road-widening project, initially expected to move faster, is now slated for completion only after Diwali this year.The civic body initiated the ambitious project last year to widen the…
Guwahati: Amid repeated vulture deaths caused by poisoning, habitat loss, and the felling of tall nesting trees, the Assam forest department and Assam Forest School, Jalukbari, with support from conservation NGO Aaranyak, have launched a vulture conservation initiative in Kamrup district. The programme includes a large-scale plantation and distribution drive of tree species preferred by…
Lucknow: The Lucknow Police on Sunday claimed to have cracked the brutal murder of a 28-year-old contractual sanitation worker employed at SGPGI within 24 hours, arresting a young man and detaining his minor relative for allegedly killing him over his relationship with the accused’s mother.Police said the accused not only meticulously planned the murder but…
(in Center) ADG Vishal Bansal addressing the media on Sunday Jaipur: The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan police arrested three people Sunday – including former Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) member Babu Lal Katara – in connection with the alleged leak of the Agriculture Science paper of the 2022 School Lecturer Recruitment Examination.The other…
