Navi Mumbai: Panvel city police arrested a supervisor of Tata Projects Ltd and two scrap vendors for allegedly stealing steel and aluminium materials worth Rs 1.50 crore from the company’s open warehouse in Karanjade, Panvel taluka. The materials were meant for construction of a railway track and bridge project. Police said the supervisor connived with…
Bengaluru: In the past one decade, Karnataka has made the biggest improvement in gross enrolment at the higher secondary level, according to a report by NITI Aayog released Thursday.As per the report, School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement, the largest relative improvement in enrolment during the past decade…
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday congratulated the party set to form the next government in Tamil Nadu.“In the recently concluded 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, candidates from various parties contested and emerged victorious. I extend my congratulations to the party that will form the government…
Hyderabad: The wife of retired Andhra Pradesh cadre IPS officer Vinay Ranjan Ray was found murdered at their residence in the upscale Prashasan Nagar, Jubilee Hills, on Friday morning.The victim, 62-year-old Tanuja Ranjan, was allegedly smothered to death. Police suspect that a domestic help from Nepal, employed by the family for over a year, orchestrated…
Kolkata: Be it financial constraints or severe health issues, nothing could stop these youngsters from scoring high in Madhyamik, paving the way for their journey towards realising their career dreams.Jodhpur Park Boy’s School Arnab Naskar was a regular youngster until his father suddenly met with an accident, which turned their fate overnight. But he never…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has issued notices to the Centre, the state govt, their sports authorities, including boxing associations and others, in response to a petition filed by a woman whose 19-year-old son died during a boxing match at a state-level competition in Mehsana in Sep 2024.In this case, a 19-year-old boxer from Surat,…
Chandigarh: Students at Panjab University (PU) sought corrective action within two days after newly-installed nameplates outside rooms and offices at University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) featured Hindi, English and Braille, but not the Punjabi language.Members of student organisation Sath submitted a memorandum to the Equal Opportunity Cell, seeking inclusion of Punjabi on new signboards…
Pune: The PMRDA spends crores on sewage treatment plants (STPs) along rivers under in its jurisdiction, but its own STP at its Akurdi headquarters has remained non-functional for months, prompting the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to threaten disconnection of the building’s water supply over violation of environmental norms.PCMC officials said the civic body issued…
Surat: A 38-year-old tailor was stabbed to death at a garment unit in Puna on Friday after a quarrel with a co-worker, police said, adding that the dispute was triggered by the accused seeking the victim’s daughter’s phone number.Mohammad Chand (38), a native of West Bengal, worked at a garment unit in Puna. Police said…
There was a time when nightfall meant relief. After the blaze of a long summer day, the hours after sunset carried the promise of a cool breeze through an open window, the temperature dropping enough to pull out a light blanket, sleep coming easy. That time, for much of the world, is quietly disappearing.Across continents…
