Honeybee Honeybees at one of the many flowering trees at Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens. Bengaluru: Ending a six-year wait since experts first recommended the move, Karnataka govt Friday announced it will soon officially declare the honeybee species Tudave Jenu (Apis cerana) as the state insect and the Malabar tree toad (Pedostibes tuberculosus) as the state…
Chennai: Frequent, prolonged power cuts over the past two weeks have left residents across the Avadi Corporation limits struggling through intense summer heat, with many areas facing outages lasting four to five hours every day.For the last two weeks, 38-year-old Karthika has been sitting beside her young children every night and fanning them by hand…
Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned IAS officer Amoy Kumar in connection with a land case in Hyderabad and asked him to appear before it on May 25. ED sources said the joint collector and the sub-registrar linked to the case were also summoned.The agency said this is a separate ECIR in which Amoy Kumar…
Mangal Prajapati was riding back towards Sampka with his younger brother Rohit after stepping out for personal work when a bus approached from the Pataudi side at high speed, allegedly on the wrong side of the road Gurgaon: A solar panel maintenance worker died in a late-night collision on Gurgaon-Pataudi road after a bus allegedly…
Kolkata: The KMC crisis deepened on Friday even as the civic body chairperson, Mala Roy, led a team of Trinamool councillors to conduct the KMC monthly meeting at the councillors’ club room, giving a thumbs down to a notice on the postponement of the KMC House, issued by the outgoing municipal secretary, Swapan Kumar Kundu….
Vasco: Mormugao municipal council (MMC) has decided to impose strict ban on the sale of wholesale fish in Vasco city and have issued further necessary directions to all the concerned authorities to impound vehicles which are found in the illegal trade.A joint site inspection of entire Khariawada belt was conducted by the municipal authorities involving…
Gorakhpur: Asserting that resolving people’s problems remains the govt’s priority, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday directed officials to ensure prompt, transparent and sensitive disposal of complaints, warning that negligence in grievance redressal would not be tolerated.During a Janata darshan held at Gorakhnath Temple, the CM met around 150 people, who submitted applications relatedto revenue,…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat govt has announced the second round of admissions under the Right to Education (RTE) Act for 11,044 seats in 9,770 schools in the state. Before seat allocation, parents will have the opportunity to revise their school preferences. This reselection process will be open from May 25 to May 27. The second round…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced revised timings for all Punjab govt offices, besides all schools and colleges in view of scorching summer heat. Under the new schedule, working hours will be changed from the existing 9 am-5 pm to 7.30 am-1.30 pm.Announcing the decision, Mann said the revised timings will come…
Pune: Maval MP Shrirang Barne has written to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Eknath Shinde, demanding an all-party meeting to resolve the long-standing deadlock over the Pavana closed water pipeline project. The project has remained stalled since 2011 following violent protests by farmers.In his letter, Barne raised serious concerns regarding the quality of…
