India and the UK on Tuesday discussed the key issues delaying the implementation of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), as both sides reviewed progress under the trade pact signed in July last year.The issues came up during a meeting between Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agarwal and UK Permanent Secretary Amanda Brooks.“Engaged in extensive discussions…
Villagers say the govt is yet to fulfil its promise to allot two acres of land near the Pavana dam and another two acres elsewhere in the district to families displaced by the project Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is gearing up to revive the stalled Pavana Closed Water Pipeline plan, while also renewing…
Vasco: Verna police have arrested Gautam Modi, a resident of Consua, Verna, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl.Police said the accused allegedly spiked the minor’s juice before committing the crime. According to the complaint, the accused later allegedly sexually assaulted the survivor multiple times.Police said he also allegedly took obscene photographs of the minor on…
Lucknow: In the aftermath of the devastating Aliganj fire that claimed 15 lives and left several injured, a TOI reality check found glaring lapses in fire safety measures across prominent coaching centres in Indiranagar and Gomtinagar areas of the city on Wednesday.A similar exercise was carried out by TOI on Monday in coaching clusters in…
What if ‘FRIENDS’ had Bollywood version? Internet once reimagined Aamir Khan Chandler Bing, Hrithik Roshan as Mike Hannigan, Ranbir Kapoor as Ross Geller and more as iconic Friendship Day is the perfect occasion to revisit one of the internet’s most entertaining pop culture crossovers. Long before AI-generated celebrity transformations became a daily trend, social media…
Rajkot: A 45-year-old transport businessman was gunned down at his residence in Maliya Miyana of Morbi district on Monday evening, with police probing an alleged business feud as the motive behind the murder.The victim, Haider Movar, was shot around 7.30pm while sitting in the courtyard of his house. According to police, the killing unfolded in…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University vice-chancellor Chiranjib Bhattacharjee has written to KMC commissioner Smita Pandey, seeking for exemption or reduction of deployment of university non-teaching employees as enumerators for Census 2027 so that the essential functioning of the university could continue without disruption.More than 200 non-teaching staff from JU have been entrusted with the census duty.“The university…
Experts warned that this summer’s fire counts surpassing even the 2025 paddy season figures is a significant red flag Gurgaon: Wheat residue burning this April recorded a sharp spike in Haryana, with 1,565 farm fire incidents logged between April 1 and 30 — a 157% increase over the 608 cases recorded during the same period…
Ines Ramirez Perez was alone in a remote village in Mexico when, after more than 12 hours of labour, she began to believe she was running out of options. With no doctor nearby and no practical way to reach a hospital, she feared that both she and her unborn baby could die. The pain was…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday met Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and sought his intervention for the denotification of certain hybrid paddy seeds to ensure smooth procurement and lifting operations in Punjab during the forthcoming kharif season, while seeking uninterrupted supply of fertilisers.Mann also pitched for Punjab’s representation in the Central…
