Panaji: The recent fires that gutted beach shacks at Arambol and Ashwem have uncovered how beachside hotels are understating their category while registering with the tourism department in order to avoid paying taxes and fees to govt.Tourism minister Rohan Khaunte has directed the tourism department to constitute a team of officers to scour through records…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday backed the women’s reservation bill but said it should first be implemented within the existing 543 Lok Sabha seats, cautioning against linking it to delimitation.“They should first make 33% reservation from 543 seats,” Mann said, adding that any future expansion of Parliament must ensure a proportionate increase…
Erin Routliffe (L) and Gabriela Dabrowski (R) won two US Open women’s doubles titles and the year-ending WTA Finals in 2024. (AFP) NEW DELHI: Erin Routliffe was born in Auckland while her parents were on an around-the-world sailing adventure, with New Zealand serving as their base at the time. They remained in the country for…
Patiala: Protesting the Centre’s reported move to end Punjab’s permanent membership in the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), the Misl Satluj organisation staged a demonstration at the main gate of Punjabi University, Patiala, on Friday.Yadvinder Singh Yadu Alal, national president of the outfit’s youth wing, alleged that the Centre was planning to grant permanent membership…
Not only is the Universe expanding, but its expansion is actually happening at a speed higher than was thought possible until recently. For many years now, physicists have been trying to establish the speed of galaxy movement through the Hubble constant. But the different measurement results have posed a dilemma for modern physics, and it…
Hyderabad: Nearly 12 lakh people, enough to rank as the state’s 10th largest community, identified themselves as ‘No Caste’ in the Telangana Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey released on Wednesday night.It shows that this group of 11,96,482 people or 3.4% of the population project themselves as caste neutral, but nearly half of…
Noida’s new administrative building in Sector 96 was scheduled for inauguration on Friday, but the programme has now been postponed Noida: Noida, founded on April 17, 1976, turned 50 on Friday, but its golden jubilee celebrations were scaled down sharply after the recent workers’ unrest. Noida Authority had planned to inaugurate its administrative building and…
UAE expands Nafis till 2040, adds monthly salary support and unlimited child allowance / Image: file In a significant move to strengthen Emirati employment in the private sector, the United Arab Emirates announced a major expansion of its flagship Nafis programme, extending benefits until 2040. The announcement was made under the directives of Sheikh Mohamed…
Aizawl: The Census 2027 will encompass not only permanent residents of Mizoram but will also include refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh, as well as internally displaced people of Manipur taking shelter in the state due to political and ethnic turmoil in their respective countries and state, census officials said.Nearly 30,000 refugees from Myanmar, over 2,000…
Pune:The Talegaon MIDC police on Wednesday registered a case of causing death by negligence against the principal, manager, sports department head and the ground maintenance staffer of Tolani Maritime Institute at Indori in Maval taluka, after a 20-year-old student died when the rim of a basketball hoop collapsed on his head while he was hanging…
