New Delhi: A 45-year-old MCD sanitation worker allegedly died by suicide after being subjected to mental harassment and financial exploitation by a municipal councillor.Police have registered a case under BNS Section 108 (abetment to suicide) against Vijay Kumar, the AAP councillor from Ward No. 192 (Trilokpuri East). TOI tried reaching out to Kumar for a…
Mumbai: A special trial court on Thursday granted the prosecution a 13-day extension to execute a proclamation order against six wanted Pakistani nationals accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The extension is part of the ongoing legal process to initiate a trial in absentia against the fugitives. The prosecution filed an application seeking additional…
Schoolchildren faced severe traffic delays on the Varthur-Gunjur stretch. BENGALURU: Hundreds of school-children commuting along the Varthur-Gunjur stretch of SH-35 endured a harrowing Thursday as severe traffic congestion delayed school buses by up to 40 minutes in the morning and left students stranded on roads for hours while returning home. A 4km drive took 2.5…
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh’s experience shows how difficult it can be to reverse fertility decline once having fewer children becomes a social norm, an Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) working paper has said.Titled ‘The Ghost of Population Past: How Population Control Persists in India’, the paper argues that India’s family planning policies have…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat is looking to expand its presence in deep-sea and high-seas fishing, with the state govt offering infrastructure support and Centre facilitating greater access to high-value marine resources, officials said at a national workshop in Gandhinagar on Thursday.Chief minister Bhupendra Patel said govt was ready to provide land and cold-storage facilities if fishermen and…
Shimla: Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and ministers Vikramaditya Singh and Chandresh Kumar on Thursday said the state had protected its interests in the Kishau multipurpose dam project by resisting the proposed financial liability .The project is coming up on the Tons river along the Himachal-Uttarakhand border.Addressing a public meeting at Rail in Hamirpur district,…
Uruli Devachi garbage depot Pune: The civic body’s standing committee has approved a proposal to set up a 300-metric-tonne (MT) waste processing unit in the Phursungi-Uruli Devachi area to enhance the city’s waste-processing capacity. Around 12 acres of land will be allotted to Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to set up and operate a bio-CNG…
Itanagar: CM Pema Khandu on Thursday said the state govt did not resort to forceful deployment of arms or security forces in connection with the proposed 11,000 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP).Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event, Khandu urged individuals and civil society organisations opposing the project to approach the administration…
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First pediatric liver transplant patient discharged from SMS hospital Jaipur: A 15-year-old boy was discharged from SMS Hospital Thursday, 20 days after undergoing Rajasthan’s first paediatric liver transplant, with the organ donated by a nine-year-old brain-dead girl at AIIMS Jodhpur.The teenager, who was admitted in critical condition, underwent the transplant on Aug 29 after a…
