Bengaluru: White-topping work on Hennur-Bagalur Road is expected to be complete by June 15, with officials indicating that the main roadwork will be finished by May and the remaining footpath and utility work in another three months.Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) chief commissioner Maheshwar Rao inspected the site Wednesday and directed officials to accelerate pace of…
Chennai: The year 2025–26 marked a turning point for the medium and heavy commercial vehicle (M&HCV) market, with the truck segment not only staging a strong recovery after two sluggish years but also seeing volumes return to—and surpass—pre-Covid levels for the first time in the post-pandemic period.While the passenger carrier segment of the M&HCV category…
Gurgaon: Two persons, including a 28-year-old motorcyclist and a Class 12 student, were killed in separate hit-and-run incidents in Manesar and Sohna, while a woman was left critically injured in another accident, police said on Wednesday.In the first incident, Ashish (28), a native of Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, died after his motorcycle was hit by…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police anti-cybercrime sleuths have successfully orchestrated a significant financial recovery after an 83-year-old resident of Baghbazar fell victim to a sophisticated “digital arrest” scam earlier this month, the first of the eight reported in April so far.In a swift operation involving the Cyber Crime Branch of the detective department and the North Division,…
Panaji: Goa police’s crime branch on Wednesday made Youtuber Gautam Khattar’s brother Madhav a co-accused in the case of derogatory remarks made by the former against St Francis Xavier. Police arrested Madhav in Haridwar for filming brother Gautam’s remarks at the Goa event and for broadcasting it on social media.The crime branch has issued a…
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Patiala: The Power Sector Joint Action Committee (PS JAC) on Wednesday wrote to chief minister Bhagwant Mann, seeking removal of power minister Sanjeev Arora over an alleged conflict of interest and ongoing probe into family-linked real estate firms.The letter, signed by power engineer Ajay Pal Singh Atwal, secretary of the Joint Action Committee, contended that…
Guwahati: The bail petition moved by Shyamkanu Mahanta, one of the accused in the singer Zubeen Garg death case, was part-heard on Wednesday by the fast-track court, with the hearing scheduled to resume on Thursday.Judge Sharmila Bhuyan, in her order, stated, “Argument on the bail petition for accused Shyamkanu Mahanta is part heard as time…
Former deputy CM Sachin Pilot and former CM Ashok Gehlot shake hands as they arrive to attend a meeting of the party’s National OBC Congress Advisory Council, in New Delhi, Wednesday Jaipur: In a rare public display of warmth, Rajasthan Congress rivals Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot greeted each other cordially at the AICC headquarters…
NEW DELHI: A quick check by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday showed how there is a gap between what officials claim and the ground reality. At a track maintainers’ conference, he asked how many of them have got “lightweight tools” and the response was dismal.“This is wrong. There is a sharp gap between your…
