VD Satheesan, KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala THIRUVANANTHAMPURAM: The contest to pick Congress legislature party chief in Kerala entered a decisive stretch Wednesday as AICC observers Ajay Maken and Mukul Wasnik reached the state to sound out newly elected MLAs. Senior state functionaries have been asked to be in New Delhi after Thursday’s meeting, with the…
The deceased were identified as Powai resident Deepak Chande, his wife Shobha, and their children Jai and Purva Four members of a family from Powai, including two children, were killed on the spot during a visit to their native village Honyali in Kolhapur Thursday. Their two-wheeler collided with a tempo which overturned into a roadside…
Kolkata: Nippon Paint, the only multinational paint company in the country, may look for a manufacturing facility in Bengal in the near future, according to Nippon Paint India managing director Sharad Malhotra. The company is eyeing a double-digit market share in the decorative segment in the East in seven to eight years. It entered the…
Amritsar: A 28-year-old painter who had been missing for two days was found dead on July 15 in a motor room near GT Road in Mallian village. Locals spotted the body of Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Thothia, bearing head injuries.According to his mother, Sukhwinder Kaur, a local panchayat member, Gurpreet was last seen leaving…
Road surface peels of two weeks after inauguration in Greater Noida. Noida: Barely two weeks after a 1.6-km-long railway overbridge connecting Makoda and Tilapta villages was inaugurated, the top asphalt layer of the carriageway started to peel off after Greater Noida received the year’s first intense spell of rainfall on Thursday, exposing the poor quality…
Jaipur: Environmentalists have criticised the proposed 100 MW solar power project near Sambhar Lake, warning that even a relatively small installation could disturb the fragile wetland ecosystem.The Rajasthan High Court recently granted permission for the project in Nagaur district near Sambhar Lake, subject to safeguards aimed at protecting migratory birds and preserving their natural habitat.However,…
Jaipur: A 13-month-old girl died after being allegedly run over by a car in Jaipur’s Siddharth Nagar area Thursday evening, police said.The incident sparked outrage, with grieving family members staging a protest outside EHCC Hospital and demanding the immediate arrest of the driver.According to police, the accident occurred around 5pm when the child, identified as…
In Vedic Astrology, the Chandra Mahadasha or the Moon major period is considered one of the most emotional periods of a person’s life. This is a 10 year planetary time period and is associated with the moon’s influence on the mind, emotions, intuition, relationships and overall health.Astrologers opine that the effect of Chandra Mahadasha depends…
Kolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said that “detection and deletion” had already been done and state govt will soon start to “deport”, pointing at driving out alleged illegal immigrants from Bengal. He also said that state govt had started processes for census, which was delayed by the previous govt.“First we detected in the…
Mumbai: Observing that human life is more important, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the release of 50 crew members who were stranded aboard three vessels off Mumbai coast since Feb 5.Motor tankers Asphalt Star, Stellar Ruby and Al Jafzia were intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard and later placed under arrest by Yellow…
