Hyderabad: The much-awaited Dr Marri Channa Reddy Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS), Sanathnagar, is set to be inaugurated by chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday, marking the opening of one of the state’s major govt super-speciality hospitals.Health minister Damodar Raja Narasimha on Sunday inspected arrangements at the hospital and reviewed preparations with officials…
ToneTag eKosha to convert UPI soundboxes into banking touch points MUMBAI: Bengaluru-based fintech ToneTag has launched a tech stack that allows shopkeepers to use their UPI soundboxes for conversational banking without requiring the tech savviness needed for mobile or internet banking. ToneTag’s speciality is enabling payments using sound-based contactless data transfer without a network, the…
The month of Sawan 2026 will begin on July 30, marking the start of one of the most sacred months for devotees of Lord Shiva. Sawan is also called Shravan, and it signifies spiritual discipline, purity, emotional control, fasting and prayer. On Mondays of Sawan, the worship of Shiva is very powerful. Many devotees keep…
Kaziranga to halt jeep safari from May 25 as monsoon nears Guwahati: Jeep safari will remain closed from May 25 at the Kaziranga National Park as the monsoon season is fast approaching in the state, officials said.Officials said elephant safari in the park has already been stopped for the season.“The elephant and jeep safaris will…
Vinesh Phogat and Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Sunday disclosed that she is one of the six female wrestlers who had accused former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment.The announcement comes just days before her return at a ranking tournament in…
The exercise is designed to map owl diversity, abundance and distribution across both protected forests and human-dominated landscapes Kolkata: West Bengal’s first comprehensive statewide owl survey — the first initiative of its kind in India — has documented 11 owl species during the first four months of fieldwork, providing the most extensive baseline yet on…
BATHINDA: Raghav Goyal allegedly arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a Rs 20 lakh bribery case from a five-star hotel in Chandigarh late on Monday belongs to Malout town in Punjab’s Muktsar district. Malout resident Raghav Goyal is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He was reportedly in Chandigarh with…
Kolkata: The Union rural development ministry will conduct a four-day training programme for Bengal govt officials this week to accelerate the implementation of the VB-G RAM G scheme. According to officials, the programme will be held from Tuesday to Friday at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre in New Town. Senior officials from the Union ministry…
Kolkata: A BJP-supporting woman was allegedly tied to a lamp post, brutally assaulted and subjected to severe torture in South 24 Parganas’ Narendrapur. The victim and her family have accused supporters of former Sonarpur North Trinamool Congress MLA Firdousi Begum of carrying out the attack, though police said there was no direct evidence linking the…
A 16-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing nine-year-old Aria Thorpe claimed the fatal injury occurred during what he described as “playfighting”, BBC reported. The teenager denies murder and manslaughter charges over Aria’s death at a house in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on December 15 last year.Prosecutor Ray Tully KC told Bristol Crown Court that the defendant…
