Mumbai: Mercury continued to climb steadily as maximum temperatures touched 36°C, 2.6° above normal, making Tuesday the hottest day of this month so far. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning for hot and humid conditions in isolated pockets of Mumbai, Thane, Raigad and Palghar for Wednesday and Thursday.Tuesday’s maximum temperature was higher…
Bengaluru: The Fee Regulatory Committee (FRC) recently wrote to the state govt to direct all colleges offering professional courses to submit their proposed fee structure to it. Following the direction, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has asked its colleges to do the same.As per FRC’s letter, colleges offering professional courses that come under the consensual agreement,…
Chennai: Residents of Anna Nagar didn’t hold back. “What is your stand on freebies?” “And if your party doesn’t form the govt, how will you still deliver?” These were among the questions fired at candidates during a tightly run online interaction organised by the federation of Anna Nagar residents associations (FOARA), turning what could have…
Hyderabad: A wearable device developed by the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) could significantly improve safety in high-risk industrial workplaces by ensuring that accidents are detected and reported instantly.Designed by Professor Abhishek Srivastava and his team at the Centre for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology, the system, called ‘GoldAid’, is a compact, belt-mounted…
70 advanced life support (ALS) vehicles have been ordered and is being procured through the Union govt while 59 of such units will be immediately available through outsourcing, an official said Gurgaon: Amid funding gaps and procurement delays, the state govt is planning a revamp of its emergency ambulance network and adding nearly 300 new…
Kolkata: Bengal is accelerating on the road to cleaner mobility, with electric vehicle adoption witnessing a robust surge despite the continued gap in the charging infrastructure.EV registration in Bengal increased by 154.7%, rising from 52,327 units in 2023-24 to 1,33,388 in 2025-26, showed a study by Environcatalysts, which tracked the transport sector’s transition. The jump…
An X-ray there revealed that a circular foreign battery was lodged in her stomach Noida: Doctors at a private hospital in Noida have saved a 20-month-old girl after she swallowed a lithium button battery, the ones usually found in toys. Experts said such batteries can cause burns and potentially life-threatening haemorrhage within hours if nearby…
Panaji: The Bombay high court has directed the deputy town planner, Mapusa, to examine the revised plan for the pending multipurpose sports complex at Socorro and decide within two weeks whether technical clearance can be granted.The HC is hearing a PIL by Yadnesh Sanzgiry and others over non-utilisation of the sports complex and other facilities…
Varanasi: A tourist suffered burns, while 11 others fell ill due to suffocation after fire engulfed a hotel in the Nai Sadak area under Luxa police station on Sunday night.According to reports, chaos ensued as Hotel HM International went up in flames around 2:40 am, with guests trapped inside. Locals rushed in and rescued people…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has upheld a family court’s refusal to execute a compromise decree granting visitation rights to a child’s father, as the arrangement appeared unworkable and the child too was against it.While refusing to interfere in the family court’s order, Justice J C Doshi said, “The child welfare since remains very sensitive,…
