The previous diggers deployed to clean the Buddha Dariya achieved little Ludhiana: A broke local civic body is buying expensive excavation machinery while its public transit fleet is auctioned off to pay legal debts.The municipal corporation has submitted a proposal to its Finance and Contracts Committee to purchase six long-boom Poclain machines for ₹4.6 crore…
It is a piece of cloth, a gesture of respect among Tamil people. But over the years, the melthundu — ‘mel’ meaning upper, ‘thundu’ meaning cloth — has come to mean much more than that. Forbidden at one point for particular communities, later reclaimed as a mark of protest, and now reimagined in party colours,…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday criticised the Centre over rising LPG prices and reductions in subsidies under the Ujjwala scheme, alleging that government policies were placing an increasing financial burden on poor and middle-class families.Rahul alleged that 12 years of what he termed “anti-poor economic…
Panaji: Poor business, a severe commercial LPG cylinder shortage and assembly elections in at least four major states have prompted some of Goa’s beach shacks to call it a day by mid-April.Many of the shack operators have decided that it would be too expensive to continue operations till May end, when the season officially comes…
CJP education manifesto targets paper leaks, proposes reforms for students PUNE: Stating that there was nothing wrong with forming a political party after a public movement, Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), announced that the launch of an education manifesto during their protest in Pune on ThursdayResponding to questions about comparisons with…
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Glenn Phillips, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Luke Wood, Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Anuj Rawat, Kulwant Khejroliya, Rahul Tewatia….
Aries Those in the sports arena may find the sole purpose to be enhancing fitness level. Academically you will do well to interact more with individuals who matter. Things move forward favourably and you remain on top on the professional front. Some may anticipate a payrise. The home front seems the most tempting for a…
Panchkula: Taking suo motu cognisance of a TOI report titled ‘Pkl challans nosedive as cams go dead’, the Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has sought detailed reports from the Panchkula municipal corporation commissioner and the police commissioner over the large number of non-functional CCTV cameras in the city.The commission has directed the municipal corporation to…
Lucknow: A judge posted in Saharanpur was duped of nearly Rs 24 lakh on the pretext of arranging Haj pilgrimage.Police have arrested two people, Osama Rashidi (30) and Ejaz Ahmad (31), from Lucknow, while two other accused are on the run.The complainant, currently posted as an additional district and sessions judge (SC/ST), said he had…
Guwahati: A symposium on the rich tradition of Charita literature in Assam was held at The Assam Royal Global University (RGU).The event sparked meaningful dialogue and generated keen interest among young learners on the Charita Puthi — biographical narratives of Srimanta Sankardev, Sri Madhavdev and other prominent figures of the Vaishnavite movement in Assam.In his…
