Chandigarh: Punjab crossed the 85% mark in voter mapping under the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls after special camps were organised at all 24,453 polling booths across the state’s 117 assembly constituencies on Sunday.Punjab chief electoral officer Anindita Mitra said 1.10 lakh voters were mapped during the day, taking the overall coverage beyond…
Chennai: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said the party joined hands with TVK only after “informing” DMK leadership. He said the decision was driven by the need to avoid another election (in the event of TVK not being able to get support of majority members) and reflected the broader sentiment among alliance partners.“We left only…
Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday directed all deputy commissioners in the state to mandatorily review at least one major complaint received through the ‘Mhari Sadak App’ during public grievance and monthly review meetings to strengthen accountability and improve road maintenance.Chairing a review meeting on the functioning of the app, the chief…
Interest in returning astronauts to the Moon has changed considerably over the past few years. What was once centred on individual landings is gradually becoming a much broader effort to establish a lasting human presence beyond Earth. NASA’s latest announcement reflects that shift. Instead of focusing only on the next mission, the agency is preparing…
Chandigarh: The Centre has allowed relaxation in uniform specifications of wheat for central pool procurement during the ongoing rabi marketing season in Punjab and Chandigarh following crop damage due to recent untimely rains.The limit of lustre loss wheat has been relaxed up to 70%, shrivelled and broken grains up to 15% (against the existing 6%),…
Nicolas Cage, one of the most versatile actors of our generation, took the world by storm for his eerie and terrifying portrayal of Longlegs in the 2024 film. Now, with the confirmation that another project related to the horror film has already been set in motion, Cage could not be happier about it. In a…
LUCKNOW: A sub-inspector posted at Rahimabad police station was suspended after a viral video allegedly showed him demanding a Rs 1.5 lakh bribe in connection with the investigation of a fraud case, police said on Thursday.The complainant, Vishnu Kumar, in a representation to the joint commissioner of police, alleged that sub-inspector, Guddu Prasad had been…
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court has granted interim protection from arrest to former Andhra Pradesh minister and YSRCP senior leader Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao till June 29 in connection with the AP liquor scam currently being probed by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).Justice K Sujana granted the interim relief and directed the ED to file…
Rajkot: In its second consecutive day of anti-liquor operations, the State Monitoring Cell (SMC) carried out a raid in Gondal taluka of Rajkot district, seizing a large consignment of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth more than Rs 1.51 crore. The operation was conducted near Bharudi village at the Bharudi Toll Plaza on National Highway 27,…
Still from Macbeth: What’s Done Is Done Centred on the themes of regicide, betrayal and tyranny, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedies. In contrast, Rajat Kapoor’s satirical adaptation adds a layer of slapstick comedy to the sombre classic. While in the original, Shakespeare uses the opening scene to set the eerie tone of the…
