Pune: Once held up as a flagship ‘Smart City’ zone, Baner-Balewadi now appears to be anything but smart, hosting streets littered with unattended garbage, erratic waste pickups and the acrid smoke of trash going up in flames. Add battered roads and an on-again, off-again water supply, and residents’ patience is wearing thin.Baner-Balewadi was identified as…
Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao on Monday accused the Congress govt of pushing Telangana towards a severe power crisis due to its lack of foresight and failure in governance. He said farmers staged protests in front of electricity substations in 11 districts on Monday, expressing their anger over frequent power disruptions. Harish Rao said…
New Delhi: Ahead of the monsoon season, Public Works Department (PWD) has planned a series of remedial measures to tackle waterlogging at vulnerable locations on roads under its jurisdiction.The department has earmarked more than Rs 2 crore for the works. The current proposal pertains to roads under the Central and New Delhi (C&ND) roads division,…
Mumbai: Mankhurd police on Monday arrested the contractor and owner of the unauthorised ground-plus-three-storey slum tenement that collapsed onto an adjoining ground-floor shanty at Janata Nagar in Mandala area on Sunday night, killing five children and a woman and injuring a man.Based on a complaint lodged by Mohammad Mukhtar Abdul Ali Shaikh (53), police registered…
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Rajya Sabha MP Medha Kulkarni along with Rasayu founder Yogesh Bendale. Pune: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant while speaking at the inauguration of Rasayu Life Sciences’ new research and drug-development facility in Pune said that research and technology can help Ayurveda gain global acceptance. He praised institutions that combine traditional…
Arrop Biswas at Judge’s court to visit lawyer’s chamber Kolkata: After skipping three summonses and being trolled for failing to appear before investigators probing alleged irregularities in Lionel Messi’s GOAT India Tour, former sports minister Aroop Biswas made his first public appearance in nearly six weeks when he turned up at Bidhannagar South police station…
NEW DELHI: Public sector oil companies increased petrol and diesel prices by nearly 90 paise per litre on Saturday, the third hike since May 15, as they sought to partly offset mounting losses from selling fuels below market rates amid a sharp rise in global crude prices due to supply concerns.But that still leaves them…
State chief electoral officer S Chockalingam Pune: A multitude of queries over the month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise that will cover nearly 9.78 crore electors in the state from Tuesday have cropped up.Chief Electoral Officer S Chockalingam on Monday said that if a voter’s details cannot be mapped despite field verification, the elector will…
US stock markets extended losses on Tuesday, with Wall Street moving further away from record highs as technology stocks lost momentum and investors remained cautious over rising bond yields, oil price volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.The S&P 500 declined 0.5 per cent and was headed for its third consecutive decline after recently touching a record high….
Ahmedabad: A cab driver of a Sindhu Bhavan Road hotel has been booked by Airport police after a Delhi family alleged that he did not return a jewellery bag accidentally left in the vehicle.The family said the bag contained three gold necklaces worth Rs 14.3 lakh. The bag was left behind in the cab after…
