Dr Agarwal’s Health Care chairman Amar Agarwal with CEO Adil Agarwal Chennai: After Africa, eye care chain Dr Agarwal’s Health Care is looking to enter the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Initially, it will launch facilities in the UAE.“We are evaluating GCC as a market and, particularly, to begin with, we will start in the…
Verbal leases, cash deals fuel concerns over Hyderabad’s rental market Hyderabad: Informal renting of residential properties across Hyderabad is raising concerns over tax evasion, illegal sub-leasing and security breaches amid the city’s rapidly growing housing sector.A sub-registrar, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TOI that in one ward with a population of around 59,000 as…
Some of the damaged shops on BT Road Kolkata: A sand-laden truck lost control while travelling at high speed and crashed into several shops at Bonhooghly More on BT Road in Baranagar around 3.30 am on Sunday, damaging at least five establishments before overturning. Police detained the driver.A tragedy was averted as the shops were…
Manan Kumar Mishra, chairperson of Bar Council of India, said the academy would host young lawyers from across the country for mandatory post-enrolment training Panaji: The proposed National Legal Academy (NLA) for compulsory training of lawyers, as directed by the Supreme Court, will be set up at the Bar Council of India (BCI) Trust-run India…
Ahmedabad: A security guard allegedly restrained a 22-year-old student using a wire around her neck and raped her on the terrace of a society in Jodhpur late on Saturday night. Anandnagar police said the accused, Dharm Singh (27), a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, was arrested from Hebatpur early on Sunday. He had been…
Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon Chandigarh: Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon on Sunday hit out at the AAP-led state govt over the steep hike in MBBS fees, accusing it of making medical education inaccessible to children from poor and middle-class families and questioning its claims of an “education revolution”.“According to reports, MBBS fee…
Pune: A 26-year-old grocer died by suicide in Bhosari after a woman customer allegedly threatened to lodge a police complaint against him, accusing him of stealing her gold earring, which she claimed had fallen at his shop.The woman allegedly took Rs 1 lakh from the victim, who was 50% disabled, and demanded an additional Rs…
Lucknow: Nearly one in seven stroke patients in India is below the age of 45, with hypertension, diabetes, obesity and sedentary lifestyles emerging as key risk factors among younger adults, experts said at a neuro conclave on Sunday.Citing data from the ICMR National Stroke Registry Programme and a study published in the International Journal of…
Gang invovled in highway robberies and loots held Jaipur: Police here Sunday arrested three members of an alleged highway robbery gang accused of abducting two men returning from a Railway recruitment examination, robbing one of them and demanding a Rs 15 lakh ransom. The alleged kingpin escaped with the car used in the crime and…
ED sought confiscation of properties worth Rs 8,078 crore attached earlier in the case, belonging to Reliance Communications and its promoters and directors, including assets of Anil Ambani. NEW DELHI: ED filed two chargesheets, one each against Reliance Communications (RCom) and Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, on Saturday before a special court here, naming Gautam Doshi, Sateesh…
