Gurgaon: At its upcoming House meeting on May 11, MCG will consider temporarily handing over 0.1 hectares of land near Dundahera village to the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) for five years to set up an RRTS casting yard for the Sarai Kale Khan–Gurgaon–Bawal Namo Bharat corridor.Following requests from NCRTC in Nov 2025 and…
A 21-year-old graduate who spent nearly £100,000 (around Rs 1 crore) on his UK education says the job market is “broken” after applying to 500 jobs without securing a single offer.Khaled Sharif, who graduated top of his class in digital media technology from Kingston University near London in 2025, has received fewer than 20 interview…
NEW DELHI: As National Testing Agency (NTA) released the JEE (Main) 2026 result on Monday, marking a significant moment for lakhs of aspirants across the country, three names from Delhi left a mark with a score of 100 percentile.The three are Shreyas Mishra, Aditya Gupta and Atharva Panjabi, each with a story rooted in steady…
Hyderabad: The TGSRTC bus services resumed across the state from the early hours of Saturday after RTC JAC leaders called off their strike late night on Friday, following successful talks with the state govt.The return of buses brought major relief to the public. Services resumed from the first shift, with RTC JAC leaders and management…
Oman’s mountains hide one of the strangest geological discoveries on Earth. Image credit – Wikimedia In Oman, geologists get to do something almost impossible anywhere else. They can walk straight across rock formations usually found kilometres below the ocean bed. According to researchers, the area, named the Oman ophiolite, provides the most extensive and well-exposed…
Spirit Airlines announced on May 2 that it was closing all operations. Spirit Airlines turned out to be so popular that after the announcement of its demise, a website created to buy and revive Spirit Airlines crashed because of overwhelming response from the people who want to pledge money to save the airline from biting…
JAIPUR: RIICO has slashed timelines for a range of plot-related approvals across its industrial areas, including cutting power of attorney intimation from 15 days to one day, as part of a push to simplify procedures and improve the investor environment.A revised circular directs heads of industrial zones to clear applications within newly reduced time limits…
In Mirpur village in WB’s East Midnapore, SIR has not been unpleasant, with only two of 824 voters struck off (a Hindu & a Muslim) a marked deviation from elsewhere in WB. Residents with surnames like Nunes, Rozario and D’Cruz trace their roots to Portuguese mercenaries who settled here after 1742. Today, Christians, Hindus and…
NEW DELHI: Imported food items may reach consumers faster and in better condition, after the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) changed its clearance process to reduce delays at ports.In a key change, FSSAI has allowed inspection and testing of imported food consignments to happen together, instead of waiting for payments at every…
Kolkata: Former state chief secretaries, Alapan Bandyopadhyay and Hari Krishna Dwivedi, resigned from their positions as chief advisors to Mamata Banerjee following BJP’s sweeping mandate in the elections. Manoj Pant, another former chief secretary of Bengal, also resigned as principal secretary to the CM. “Apart from Bandyopadhyay, Dwivedi and Pant, several other retired officers serving…
