New Delhi: LG Taranjit Singh Sandhu has constituted a three-member selection committee for the appointment of the chairperson and two members of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC).One of the key tasks before the power regulator is the initiation of a process for the liquidation of nearly Rs 38,500 crore in regulatory assets (RA), which have…
New Delhi: Pushpa Devi stood under a tree for over three hours after commuting from Jahangirpuri to Pandara Road on Sunday. She was worried for her son, appearing for the NEET UG re-examination. She was equally anxious about the outcome of the test, which was held last month and then scrapped because of the paper…
K-RIDE, along with contractor L&T, commenced preliminary work for Bengaluru suburban rail project near Nagawara Bengaluru: Bengaluru Suburban Transport Project (BSTP) has achieved just 19.9% physical progress in three-and-a-half years as of July, according to implementing agency Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka).“Tenders have been invited for approximately 9km of viaduct works under corridor-2 and for…
Kolkata: Bengal govt has decided to strip elected panchayat pradhans of their financial powers and transfer them to govt officials through a bill to be introduced in the assembly, panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh said on Tuesday.The move is aimed at improving financial oversight, transparency and accountability in the execution of development projects.“The…
A video of the incident has since gone viral on social media, purportedly showing the accused attacking Shivkumar Tripathi with a sword. GORAKHPUR: A funeral gathering turned into the scene of a brutal killing in Gorakhpur on Saturday evening when a 52-year-old power department contractor was allegedly dragged out of an autorickshaw and hacked to…
Election Commission of India NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday directed rival factions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to submit their claims and counterclaims over the party’s authorised signatories and organisational elections.According to officials in the EC, letters have been sent to both Mamata Banerjee and rebel faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee, asking them…
Kenichi Takano (Image Via Getty) Kenichi Takano, a 44-year-old man from Japan, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for killing 22-year-old streamer Airi Sato during a livestream in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court handed down the sentence on July 15, 2026, after finding him guilty of murder and related charges. Takano admitted carrying…
Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah has reignited attention on the decades-old India-Nepal border dispute after remarks in Parliament appeared to suggest that Nepal had learnt of “encroachments” involving Indian territory.Shah said that, “The Nepal government has officially sent a diplomatic note to India, mentioning the issue of encroachment of territories by India, including Lipulekh, and…
PUNE: Data recovered successfully from all three cellphones seized from Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, accused of murdering realtor Ketan Agrawal in Lohagad, police are now corroborating the digital evidence with the statements of witnesses to collect more circumstantial evidence.Officers believe the recovered data may provide crucial leads related to the alleged murder conspiracy. A…
Gurgaon: Punjab and Haryana high court has restrained fresh allotments and the creation of third-party rights in a residential project of Oberoi Realty before Haryana department of town and country planning (DTCP) decides a complaint pertaining to the issue.The dispute relates to a 14.8-acre land parcel in Sector 58, where a residential colony with a…
