Kolkata: From June 1, CM Suvendu Adhikari is likely to directly hear public grievances and ensure their immediate redressal through a “Janatar Darbar”, following a model practised in several BJP-governed states such as UP, MP and Odisha.The proposed public outreach initiative, aimed at addressing grievances face to face, is expected to be held once or…
Noida: On a May afternoon in Noida, the air does not just feel hot — it feels manufactured as glass towers lining the expressway catch the sun, throw it back doubled, and trap what remains inside their climate-controlled interiors, pushing the heat out onto the street below.Delhi-NCR has always had brutal summers, but something has…
Panaji: Congress candidate for the Ponda bypoll, Ketan Bhatikar, died on Friday after being bitten by a venomous snake in Karnataka. The postmortem report has confirmed that the cause of death was snakebite. Collem police have registered the case as an unnatural death.After Bhatikar was declared dead, his supporters gathered outside his residence in Ponda…
When relatives reached the bridge, they found Panchal’s motorcycle lying damaged on the bridge while he had fallen onto the road below with head and body injuries Ahmedabad: A 52-year-old senior manager fell to his death when he was thrown off Ranip’s Balolnagar bridge after his motorcycle hit a divider late on Wednesday. This marks…
Shimona.kanwar@timesofindia.comChandigarh: PGI has launched an austerity campaign to slash its carbon footprint and conserve resources during the ongoing economic crisis. As part of the effort, the institute will trade fuel-guzzling cars for bicycles and waiting rooms for digital screens.The campus-wide initiative encourages all employees — including senior doctors living within residential sectors — to cycle…
Pune: Amplified by concrete buildings, asphalt roads, dense urban infrastructure and vanishing tree cover, birds are struggling to survive in the punishing summer.Pigeons, house sparrows, crows, mynas, bulbuls and sunbirds are increasingly being seen with beaks open in thirst, drooping wings and heaving bodies as they search for shade. Many grow disoriented, collapse mid-flight or…
Dibrugarh: Forest authorities put an end to days of terror among the residents and workers of two tea estates in upper Assam, capturing two leopards in seperate localities on Friday.In the first instance, a leopard that had been creating fear among residents and workers of the Megha Tea Estate in the Moran-Nahoroni area of Dibrugarh…
Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak during TOI conclave Lucknow: Referring to the perception of Uttar Pradesh in the past, when workers from the state were humiliated in other parts of the country, and how the situation has changed now, Deputy Chief minister Brajesh Pathak said, “Migrants from UP who moved to other parts of the…
Alwar/Jaipur: Chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma Friday inaugurated Rajasthan’s first semiconductor cluster in Bhiwadi and said the state govt was continuously working to promote investment and industrial growth across sectors.Addressing a virtual inauguration and foundation stone-laying programme from Jaipur, Sharma said the govt implemented 35 policies over the last two years to create an industry-friendly…
NEW DELHI: Noting that the Madhya Pradesh HC order declaring the disputed Bhojshala complex a temple only validated the fears and concerns they had raised since the 2019 Ayodhya verdict, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) on Friday released a report arguing that Supreme Court’s interpretation of Places of Worship Act revealed how “deeply majoritarian politics has…
