Three Dubai-owned vessels, previously implicated in a fuel theft and smuggling racket, are in distress off Mumbai’s coast MUMBAI: An unmanned Nicaragua-flagged merchant tanker, MT Al Jafzia, ran aground near Manori Island on Sunday after its anchor chain snapped amid rough weather, while two other anchored vessels drifted closer to the coast, officials said.The other…
Garbage cleaning work in Saltlake Kolkata: A week after the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) board of councillors was dissolved and an administrator took charge of the civic body, streets across Salt Lake have started to look cleaner. The civic authorities have been regularly collecting and disposing of the daily generated waste and cleaning the road…
India women’s team head coach Crispin Chettri’s contract ends on Sunday Margao: Crispin Chettri walked the talk at the SAFF Women’s Championship in Goa.In his pre-tournament media interaction, the India coach spoke of how winning the regional championship after a seven-year wait would look good on his CV, but if he didn’t provide chances to…
Hyderabad: The draft Core Urban Region (Integrated Governance) Bill, 2026 for Hyderabad that replaces the existing Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Act, 1955 is held back by critical gaps, finds Janaagraha’s independent assessment.The analysis was conducted at three levels. First, Janaagraha scored the Bill using the city-systems framework which assesses the systemic reforms that impact…
Bathinda: Two unidentified men hurled a petrol bomb at the clinic of a local BJP functionary opposite the RSS office in Bathinda late Monday night, police said.The incident occurred hours before chief minister Bhagwant Mann was to address three programmes on Tuesday. While the 9:45 pm blast left no one injured, it damaged a scooter…
Gurgaon: A major fire at a Sector 9 substation on Wednesday night led to an overnight power outage in three residential societies, affecting nearly 1,500 families.Power supply was disrupted in Parina Laxmi Apartment, Parina Coban Society in Sector 99A and BPTP Amstoria in Sector 102. The worst hit was Parina Laxmi in Sector 99A, where…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image: AP) Vaibhav Sooryavanshi may have taken the IPL 2026 season by storm, but the teenage sensation will have to wait a little longer before enjoying one of the biggest rewards from his record-breaking campaign.The 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals star was gifted a brand-new Tata Sierra SUV after sweeping multiple individual awards at the…
Pooja Bhatt has never shied away from speaking honestly about addiction, emotional pain and her journey towards healing. Having grown up witnessing her father Mahesh Bhatt’s battle with alcoholism, the actor-filmmaker once believed she understood the damage alcohol could cause. However, years later, during a difficult phase in her own life, she found herself struggling…
Gurgaon: One week after event manager Sarthak Mattoo died in a hit-and-run at Rajokri flyover on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, his parents on Thursday released an emotional video appealing to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta and the Delhi police commissioner to intervene in the investigation, which they claimed was slow and “riddled with errors”.Two days before his 34th…
BENGALURU: Three cab drivers from Bengaluru were arrested Monday on charges of hitting a 37-year-old man on the head with a rod in a road-rage incident at Maddur on Bengaluru-Mysuru highway on the night of July 5.Police said M Sagar Kumar, from Attiguppe near Vijayanagar, was driving back from Mysuru to Bengaluru when the alleged…
