Noida: Contractual workers employed by the Noida Authority staged a protest on Thursday against being assigned Census duties, arguing that such responsibilities historically fell to permanent employees and should not be imposed on workers hired through contractors.The workers, organised under the Contractual Workers’ Union, gathered at the Authority’s water department office in Sector 5 and…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rashid Alvi, on Sunday, criticised the Centre over its recent order asking the Delhi Gymkhana Club to vacate its premises. He alleged that the move was linked to Rahul Gandhi‘s membership of the club located in central Delhi.Alvi said that the move is unfortunate. “It is such an old club and…
File photo: Abhishek Singhvi & Himanta Sarma GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court granted anticipatory bail to Congress spokesman Pawan Khera in a defamation case, a slugfest broke out between Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Himanta Sarma, with the former asking him to reflect on his “deeply inappropriate” statements.Khera was granted relief in a…
Lucknow: Railway services at Lucknow Junction will be affected for over a month due to concourse construction work being carried out by the Rail Land Development Authority. Northern Railway has announced that a traffic block will remain in place from May 15 to June 23, leading to short-termination, short-origination, and diversion of several trains.According to…
Ahmedabad: From the onset of IPL 2026, 2022 champions Gujarat Titans (GT) faced a barrage of questions surrounding the vulnerability of their middle order should the top order, comprising captain Shubman Gill, B Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler, fail. On Sunday, playing their third final at the Narendra Modi Stadium here, that eventuality came to…
Kolkata: A Beniapukur family was cheated of more than Rs 71.5 lakh in an online investment scam. The victim was contacted on WhatsApp on April 15 by people claiming to work for a UK-based firm called ‘Social Venture Capitalist’. They promised high profits through online trading.The man initially invested $200 through UPI and the fake…
Water wastage checks in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Stepping up efforts to conserve drinking water this summer, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) collected Rs 2.2 lakh in spot fines from 44 violators between March 1 and May 8, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the misuse of potable water in the city.The amount was…
Kolkata: In a move to ensure neutral administrative conduct during the second phase of the Bengal assembly elections, Lalbazar has suspended a veteran Kolkata Police constable for political expression and sharing content on social media that can disturb communal harmony.Constable Ramkrishna Kayal, a member of the 1st Battalion of Kolkata Armed Police with 23 years…
New Delhi: Al-Falah University group chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, in custody in two money laundering cases, Monday urged Delhi High Court to release him on interim bail.Siddiqui, who is seeking the relief on account of his wife’s cancer treatment, told a bench of Justice Saurabh Banerjee that he is ready to wear a GPS tracker…
Pune: The Talegaon MIDC police have registered a case against three employees of a petrol pump in Ambi village of Maval taluka for allegedly cheating the owner of Rs 25 lakh by diverting customer payments into their personal UPI accounts instead of the petrol pump’s official payment account.According to the police, the accused collected payments…
