Pune:The ongoing strike of govt employees, including nurses, entered day two on Wednesday, showing a harder impact on new admissions and planned surgeries at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital (SGH). More than half the nursing staff at the hospital has respondedto the protest call of Maharashtra govt employees, pressing for several long-pending demands.BJ Medical College…
Pic used for representation purpose distribution electric substation with power lines and transformers, at sunset Bengaluru: Days after seeking permission to enter Karnataka’s electricity distribution sector, Tata Power seems to be facing resistance from multiple stakeholders ranging from employee unions, farmer organisations and sections of the state govt. The latest hurdle emerged on Monday with…
Air Canada passengers instantly started praying as plane swerved repeatedly after pilot’s apparent seizure Panic spread through an Air Canada-operated flight after the aircraft began swerving in mid-air when its captain suffered a medical emergency. The frightened passengers started to pray as the plane was diverted for an emergency landing in Boston, reports the New…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu govt will take steps to appoint vice-chancellors to state universities soon, higher education minister P Viswanathan told reporters on Monday.As many as 15 of 22 state universities have been functioning without a vice-chancellor for several months due to a tussle between former Governor R N Ravi and DMK govt regarding the inclusion…
Old wounds are best left forgotten. A Swahili saying literally translates to ‘stop scratching the cockroach’s scars when translated to English but its deeper meaning teaches us an important lesson on moving on. Cockroaches symbolize survival and their scars are tales of struggles. There is no use in scratching those scars as there is no…
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man allegedly killed his wife by bludgeoning her with a battery after suspecting her of speaking to someone on the phone, and later died by suicide after consuming poison in Delhi’s Ranhola area, police said on Saturday.According to investigators, Vinay allegedly struck his 24-year-old wife Nisha on the head with an…
. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has warned private internet and television cable operators against unauthorised installation of overhead wires on poles across the city Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has ordered all internet service providers (ISPs), optical fibre operators, and broadband companies to submit operational documents within 30 days. The move comes…
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: The Congress high command, along with chief minister-designate D K Shivakumar and caretaker chief minister Siddaramaiah, held late-night discussions in New Delhi Sunday to finalise the composition of the new Karnataka cabinet. There are plans to induct between 10 and 20 ministers in the first phase, alongside Shivakumar’s swearing-in on Wednesday.Also read |…
Navi Mumbai: The Union government’s in-principle clearance for diversion of 237.086 hectares of forest land and the felling of nearly 40,000 trees for the proposed Vadhavan Port connectivity corridor has triggered strong opposition from environmentalists, who warned of irreversible ecological damage and escalation in wildlife-human conflict in the ecologically sensitive Dahanu-Palghar region.The clearance covers an…
The backside of four storey building in Vivek Vihar, Shahdara, where a fire broke out early Sunday morning. (Photo: Anushka Kogta) NEW DELHI: Protective iron grills sealing one side and a locked terrace cutting off the only escape turned a four-storey building in Delhi’s Vivek Vihar into a death trap as a pre-dawn fire tore…
