Mumbai: Raising the issue of Muslim youth excluded from Govt’s AMRUT Institute schemes, Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh from Bhiwandi East has said that applications for the institute’s Drone Pilot Training Programme, run under the state govt’s Other Backward Bahujan Welfare Department, are being accepted only from Hindu candidates, while applications from Muslim candidates are…
Bengaluru: Even as the govt promotes vertical growth to meet rising urban housing demand, developers say prolonged approval delays and procedural bottlenecks continue to hamper project execution and affect home deliveries.Over the past few months, Karnataka has relaxed occupancy certificate (OC) norms, first exempting residential buildings on plots of up to 1,200 sqft from the…
Chennai: B T Arasakumar, 59, who heads an unregistered association of private schools in Tamil Nadu, was arrested by the central crime branch (CCB) of Chennai police on charges of cheating private school managements across the state of more than ₹100 crore, by promising to secure school recognition, grade upgrades and statutory approvals through his…
Cops arrest 4 workers for murder of unidentifed person in Mailardevpally Hyderabad: Four workers have been arrested for allegedly murdering an unidentified person at their company godown in Mailardevpally on June 25.Around 2 am on June 25, four workers — Balaji, 39, from Bidar in Karnataka, Nayan Mandal, 23, Uttam Bera, 35, from West Bengal,…
Gurgaon: “Sarthak’s killers must not escape.” The words are both a plea and a promise for Akash Deep Choudhary, the city-based entrepreneur who was the first to reach the hospital after his colleague, Sarthak Mattoo (34), was run over by a Thar on Rajokri flyover on Thursday morning.For Akash, the horror began with a phone…
Kolkata: Nearly a year after Rs 56 lakh was siphoned off from Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee’s bank account, Kolkata Police’s cybercrime wing has arrested the alleged mastermind from Assam. Accused Mukuleswar Reza was arrested from Rangapaniand produced before a court on Saturday. The fraud came to light in Nov 2025. The account, opened at a…
Noida: Two people were injured after a speeding car lost control and smashed into another vehicle on Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida on Saturday. The car then overturned, trapping the driver underneath. The accident briefly disrupted traffic, leading to long queues of vehicles before teams from Dankaur police station cleared the road.Police said Krishna Kant,…
Times News NetworkMapusa: A suspected suicide attempt at Karaswada, Mapusa, in North Goa, left a man and his minor son dead, while the wife remains in critical condition.Police said Ajay Jadhav, 38, a private bank employee, and his son Atharva, a school student aged seven, were found dead in their rented house on Saturday noon.Ajay’s…
ways to reduce mobile screen time Ahmedabad: While the Abhayam 181 women’s helpline has no specific category for smartphone-related issues, officials log them under interpersonal disputes, noting a steady rise in screen addiction cases over the years. Statistics show the helpline receives an average of one call every day from Ahmedabad where screen usage is…
The newly launched pipeline network aims to permanently eliminate tubewell dependency and resolve low-pressure issues across the historically significant village Mohali: Mohali MLA Kulwant Singh on Saturday inaugurated the construction of the ₹48.5 lakh Sohana canal water rising main project. The initiative will link Sohana village to the GMADA canal water supply scheme, injecting an…
