Hyderabad: Housing and Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Monday announced a major restructuring of state’s flagship Indiramma housing scheme, devolving greater authority to district collectors to speed up housing sanctions.He said special officers for each undivided district will be appointed to ensure better coordination between officials and elected representatives, and to pre-empt ground-level bottlenecks.“Even…
Lucknow: Alcoholic beverages will be available on the shelves of hypermarts across key cities of UP.Tweaking its policy in stagnating market conditions to generate increased revenue, the excise department on Thursday relaxed the conditions for stocking alcoholic beverages within hypermarts and multi-retail shopping marts within malls having multiplexes. Though the department introduced provisions to allow…
The flip side of stardom is often how actors are mobbed by crowds or sometimes when they come across fans who without their consent try to get close to them. One has often seen celebs go through it. In a recent interview, Sidharth’s bodyguard Zeeshan Qureshi opened up on one such incident which happened with…
Time’s up: Chief minister M K Stalin, who set out on a morning walk in Kolathur, released a video message, and ended with a roadshow. CHENNAI: Political leaders in Tamil Nadu went into an uneasy sleep on Tuesday night, after more than a month of high-decibel campaign of claims, blames and fairy tales ended. After…
Aarav Vats scored 96.6% in the CBSE Class 10 exam while battling cancer A board-exam result usually arrives wrapped in the familiar noise of percentages, cut-offs, school-wise tallies and the annual frenzy over who scored what. Aarav Vats’ marksheet carries all of that, of course. It says he scored 96.6% in the 2026 CBSE Class…
New Delhi: A man was killed and two others were injured after a scuffle turned fatal in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur on Monday morning.The deceased has been identified as Ismail (65). Among the injured are his associate, Shahid Ali (45), and Danish, who has been named as the accused in the murder.Police said they received information…
New Delhi: The city is likely to receive rain accompanied by gusty winds up to 70 kmph on Monday and Tuesday.The maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded at 36.6 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal. It was 38.6 degrees Celsius a day earlier.According to India Meteorological Department, Safdarjung, which is the city’s base station, logged…
New Delhi: For 14 days, a 76-year-old homemaker in a south Delhi neighbourhood lived as a prisoner in her own home, monitored 24×7 through a smartphone lens. Between April 20 and May 4, cybercriminals posing as Mumbai Police and ED officers drained Rs 1.4 crore from her accounts — savings her late husband had built…
Pune: Several residents of Saibabanagar woke up to a nauseating stench in the early hours of Thursday and reported respiratory distress, following poly aluminium chloride gas leakage from an unattended tank at an open plot near Aai Mata Mandir, close to Gangadham Chowk.As many as 22 people, including six children, were admitted to Sassoon General…
Shimla: Leader of the opposition in the Himachal Pradesh assembly, Jai Ram Thakur, on Saturday criticised the state govt over reports that nearly 20% of trainee students at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Nursing Institute in Rampur-Khaneri, Shimla district, had been infected with tuberculosis (TB).Thakur termed the situation alarming and blamed the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu dispensation…
