Guwahati: The state govt said it has completed preparations for the NEET-UG re-examination, deputing senior state civil service officers as state observers to monitor proceedings across regions and assigning magistrates to keep watch on strong rooms storing question papers.Assam Police and central security forces have taken over security around examination centres, officials said on the…
Participants perform yoga postures during the 2nd Asian Yogasana Sport Championship, in New Delhi. (PTI file photo) Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said India will push for Yogasana’s inclusion in the Olympic Games as the country prepares its bid to host the 2036 Olympics. His comments came ahead of the first-ever World Yogasana…
Sena (UBT)‘s MLC Ambadas Danve and MLA Kailash Patil have been told to reach out to Osmanabad MP Omprakash Rajenimbalkar and Mumbai North-East MP Sanjay Dina Patil Pune: Uddhav Thackeray’s party is trying to convince Osmanabad MP Omprakash Rajenimbalkar and Mumbai North-East MP Sanjay Dina Patil to stay with the party. They were among the…
Gurgaon: A day after police registered a case against individuals for the alleged gangrape and abetment to suicide of a 19-year-old girl in Nuh, the authorities have launched a hunt for five people after constituting multiple teams.Police on Thursday identified all five accused: Amaan, Sahrukh and Talha are the other suspects besides Arshad and Jahul,…
Gandhinagar: The proposed centre of excellence (CoE) for road safety and traffic management, to come up at Viramgam in Ahmedabad district, will initiate focused research on facial recognition technologies, assessing how they could be ethically and legally integrated into the Trinetra system to help identify repeat offenders or wanted individuals. Officials said any such deployment…
The Punjab New Capital (Periphery) Control Act, 1952, created a 10-mile (16-km) protected belt around Chandigarh, restricting development to preserve the city’s planned setting and prevent urban sprawl Chandigarh: One of the central ideas on which Chandigarh was conceived — the protection of its periphery from unplanned urbanisation — has already been altered beyond recognition…
Repair works on at MSETCL transformer in Bhosari Pune: Five housing societies and seven individual consumers in Baner and Balewadi on Tuesday approached the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum (CGRF), alleging that the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) had failed to respond to their written power complaints.Residents in the two areas have reported prolonged…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court’s order of police protection to an interfaith couple in Uluberia notwithstanding, the two decided to go in for a hush-hush wedding—not revealing any detail to the public—to evade further protest or threat by alleged Hindu groups on their special day.Baishali Saha (31) and Akram Khan (34) fell in love in…
Bengaluru: The final edition of Happy Streets by The Times of India in Nandini Layout is set to take place this Sunday, marking the close of a spirited run that has brought residents together over the past weeks. The stretch near Oxford Secondary School will once again transform into a lively, vehicle-free zone, inviting the…
A tiny asteroid no wider than a football pitch has been quietly puzzling astronomers for years, and a Chinese spacecraft is now closing in on the answer. The asteroid, called Kamo’oalewa, is one of only a handful of objects known as Earth’s quasi moons, small bodies that circle the sun in near lockstep with our…
