Varanasi: More than 30 people were killed and several others injured after severe storms and hailstorms battered the Mirzapur and Bhadohi districts on Wednesday. The storm swept across eastern Uttar Pradesh around 5:30 pm, bringing heavy rain, hail, and winds reaching up to 80 kmph.Mirzapur DM Pawan Kumar Gangwar said the district was struck by…
Hyderabad: Fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials extorted 60 lakh from a 69-year-old retired central govt employee from Miyapur by threatening to arrest him in a fabricated money laundering case. On the victim’s complaint, Cyberabad cyber crime police registered a case and launched a probe.The complainant from Miyapur received a call on March 24 from…
Shares of Wipro fell as much as 4% to Rs 202 on the NSE on Friday after the IT major reported a decline in fourth-quarter profit and flagged a subdued near-term outlook.The company posted a 2% year-on-year drop in consolidated net profit to Rs 3,502 crore for Q4, even as revenue rose 8% to Rs…
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Kolkata: Rampant on-road parking is choking Kolkata’s already strained road network, with transport officials warning that unchecked encroachment of carriageways is severely impacting mobility across the city. “In a city with extremely limited road space, parked vehicles are reducing usable carriageway and slowing down traffic,” said a transport department official.Kolkata has just 6% of its…
Panaji: A new study has found that the shipping industry is the biggest contributor to lead pollution in Goa’s air, raising concerns about environmental and public health. Researchers from the School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, report that oil used by ships accounts for 32–34% of airborne lead in the state, making it the single…
HANDS-ON TRAINING-Women learning how to ride a motorcycle at a two-day workshop in Tumakuru Ranjitha Prabhakar decided to change gears after turning 40, moving from the pillion seat to riding a rugged adventure motorcycle. Her journey underlines a larger movement playing out on Bengaluru’s roads. Heavy bobbers, tourers and cruisers, weighing anywhere between 175 and…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Wednesday said that all approvals for additional FAR and height granted by TCP will be subject to the outcome of petitions before it.While granting these approvals, the TCP board should incorporate a clause stating that such applications will be granted subject to the outcome of the petitions, the court…
Are you a regular Sun worshipper? then this is a good read for you because people, who worship Sun regularly by offering water, chanting mantras and performing other spiritual activities, need to know the daily timings of Sunrise and Sunset so that they can get up early in the morning before sunrise and do the…
Lucknow: In a flurry of transfers between Sunday and Monday, UP govt transferred 61 IAS officers, giving the state 25 new district magistrates. Ayodhya gets a new DM, Shashank Tripathi, a 2016 batch officer who was DM of Barabanki before this. Former Lucknnow municipal commissioner and incumbent special secretary energy Inderjit Singh is the new…
