Ludhiana: A blackout drill will be conducted at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) and in areas under the Aggar Nagar PSPCL division on Friday from 8 pm to 8:15 pm.During a meeting with stakeholders, assistant commissioner Payal Goyal urged residents to comply with the blackout exercise by switching off all types of lights. A siren will…
Dimapur: Nagaland health & family welfare minister P Paiwang Konyak called for a collective and coordinated approach to support the one-year ban on tobacco imposed across the state.On June 4, the state govt imposed a one-year statewide ban on the manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of all food products containing tobacco or nicotine as…
TGSRTC Posts Record Rs 1,059-Crore Surplus After Decade of Losses Hyderabad: After reporting losses for nearly a decade, the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) posted its highest-ever annual surplus of Rs 1,059.2 crore in 2025-26. Higher passenger traffic, the Mahalakshmi free bus travel scheme for women, govt reimbursements, and expenditure-control measures contributed to the…
Controversial streamer Dalton Eatherly is facing strict new bond conditions after a judge set rules for his possible release from custody. The decision follows serious charges linked to a courthouse shooting incident. Authorities say the restrictions are needed to closely monitor him and reduce any risk if he is allowed to leave jail during the…
Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the need for conducting caste survey in Tamil Nadu.Anbumani who convened a multi party meeting, said that the survey was not about welfare of any caste, but concerned the development of the state. BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran, former AIADMK minister Agri Krishnamurthy, Tamila Vazhvurimai Katchi founder Velmurugan…
Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari on Monday helped decimate a party, which his father Sisir Adhikari—the family patriarch—had helped form.Once Mamata Banerjee‘s trusted lieutenant, who worked with her to end the Left’s 34-year term in office, Suvendu worked against her for five years and five months, ever since he defected to the BJP, to end her 15-year…
Chennai: The first meeting of TVK and its friendly parties, chaired by chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Wednesday, laid the groundwork for a new political front in Tamil Nadu.Speaking at the meeting, Vijay asked the leaders not to worry about stability of the govt at the meeting and expressed confidence of completing full term,…
Pune: The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested a woman assistant police inspector attached to the Bavdhan police on the charge of demanding a bribe of Rs50,000 for not arresting the complainant’s wife in a cheating case registered against them. The API had already taken a bribe of Rs50,000 in March this year and…
Chennai: Following an advisory issued by the Union health ministry on the risk of Ebola virus disease cases being reported from some African countries, the directorate of public health and preventive medicine (DPH) has stepped up surveillance and precautionary measures across airports, ports and govt hospitals in the state.“All district health authorities have been instructed…
The life and time of Suhrawardy “No roads will be named after Mughals or Pathans,” Suvendu Adhikari said in the Bengal assembly, while defending the renaming of Kolkata’s Suhrawardy Avenue.The question, though, remains, which Suhrawardy was the road really named after? Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengal’s last premier before Partition and one of the most despised…
