New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s much-publicised open-air restaurant policy, launched in Nov 2022 to promote Delhi’s night-time economy, has failed to take off, with the number of licensed establishments dropping from 201 to fewer than 100.Despite repeated efforts by MCD to promote terrace dining and open-air restaurant spaces, officials said the concept had struggled…
NEW DELHI: Two Indian crew members aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise vessel MV Hondius are healthy and asymptomatic after a hantavirus scare led the ship to anchor off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Indian embassy in Madrid said Sunday.The vessel, carrying around 150 people, arrived in Spain amid international health monitoring linked to a reported hantavirus outbreak…
Image Credit: TOI/ Bengaluru BENGALURU: Bookworm, the iconic bookshop on Church Street, saw nearly 5,000 books destroyed after rainwater gushed into the shop within minutes.Proprietor Krishna Gowda said, “The hailstones clogged the drainage outlets, and almost instantly, water started pouring in from all sides,” he said. By 5.30pm, shelves that once held stories, ideas and…
Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court‘s principal seat in Jodhpur has issued a stay on the appointment of Purusottam Sharma as Transport Commissioner while he serves as Managing Director of the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSRTC). The interim ruling was passed by Justice Anand Sharma on April 28, responding to a petition from the All India…
A visit by TOI to Madayathur, Komanagar and Thaiyur villages in the constituency revealed that there was just one wheelchair each in at least six stations. CHENNAI: Elderly and persons with disabilities in Tiruporur were in for a rough ride on Thursday as several panchayat union schools and govt primary schools in the constituency had…
Chennai: Johnson Lifts has acquired a majority stake in its joint venture with Japan’s Toshiba Elevator Corporation, marking a shift in control after a 14-year partnership and positioning the company for expansion in India’s premium elevator segment. The Chennai-based leading maker of elevators and escalators has raised its holding in Toshiba Johnson Elevators India (TJEI)…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu emerged as the top state this year in CBSE class X results with a pass percentage of 99.92, improving on last year’s figure of 99.86%. The nationwide pass percentage was 93.70%.Of the 1,11,603 students who appeared for exams at 1,904 centres in the state, 1,11,509 passed the exam, data released by CBSE…
Mumbai: Calling it a “miracle” that lakhs of residents continue to live in structurally unsafe buildings, a committee appointed by Bombay high court has raised alarm over the condition of the city’s ageing cessed structures, highlighting delays in redevelopment and acute shortage of rehabilitation housing.The panel’s report estimates that nearly four lakh tenants are currently…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has dismissed an appeal seeking to declare a Hanuman temple and its adjoining land at Shaikpet as private property, holding that such disputes must be decided by the endowments tribunal and not civil courts. The court also upheld the stand that the land belongs to the endowments department.The appeal, pending since…
File Pic: Sri Lanka players (AP Photo) Sri Lanka’s cricket administration was plunged into fresh uncertainty on Tuesday after the executive committee of Sri Lanka Cricket stepped down following government pressure to make way for a new leadership structure.According to officials, SLC president Shammi Silva convened a special meeting to announce the resignation of the…
