CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph is set to attend the Niti Aayog governing council meeting, convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on June 11. He will leave for Delhi on a special flight on Wednesday morning.Vijay last met Modi during his two-day trip to the national capital a fortnight earlier. “The chief minister…
Bengaluru: Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka’s enterprise AI startup, Hang Ten Systems, has raised $32 million in seed funding. Mayfield led the round, with a strategic investment from Aramco Ventures and participation from a group of angel investors. The fresh capital will be deployed to expand the company’s team and deepen its engagement with global…
Jaipur: With about 7.16 lakh cases pending in Rajasthan High Court, including 1.2 lakh matters older than 10 years, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti of Rajasthan has raised concerns that limited working days and frequent holidays are affecting timely delivery of justice.The organisation said it will send a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu seeking a reduction in…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu has approved the nomination of BJP functionary Satish Upadhyay as vice-chairman of the Delhi Jal Board, along with MLAs Manoj Kumar Shokeen and Ajay Mahawar, and Delhi Cantonment Board representative Rajesh Kumar Goel as members of the DJB governing body. The appointments were approved following a proposal submitted…
Panjwar (Tarn Taran): The 35-year-old man who died in a blast while allegedly trying to plant an explosive on railway tracks in Patiala hailed from a village with a layered legacy, one that has produced both a Lok Sabha speaker and figures linked to Khalistani militancy.Panjwar village, once known as the native place of former…
Following a fire that reduced homes to ashes in the Vikas Nagar slum, families take shelter amid the rubble under makeshift tarpaulin sheets, in Lucknow on Friday Lucknow: A day after an inferno gutted over 280 shanties in Vikasnagar and rendered more than 1,000 people homeless, scenes of grief unfolded as displaced families returned to…
There is a familiar habit in the tech world of treating efficiency as a kind of reset button. If machines get faster, smaller, and smarter, then the resources behind them are assumed to shrink too. That idea is now being tested more uncomfortably. A recent United Nations report has pulled together a range of projections…
Jaisalmer: A court in Pokhran Wednesday sentenced two men to life imprisonment for attacking a man with iron rods and axes over an old financial dispute in Bhaisra village in July 2019. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,51,500 on each convict.Additional District and Sessions Judge No. 2 Dr Mahendra Kumar Goyal convicted…
In 1997, artist and preservationist Karen Groebli walked into a boarded-up, condemned Victorian mansion in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood and saw potential where others saw only ruin. As she later told Homes.com, the plaster was hanging from the walls, original gas lines dangled from the ceiling, broken windows littered the floors and the interior…
City gets new EV bus for testing Surat: The city received a new electric bus on Tuesday for a test run, marking a step toward expanding the city’s public transport fleet. After a prolonged wait, officials indicated that the city is likely to receive a new batch of buses in the coming months, subject to…
