Rajkot: A 24-year-old farm labourer has been arrested for allegedly abandoning his eight-month-old son, whose decomposed body was found on May 2 in a thicket near the Brahmani river in Susvav village of Halvad taluka, Morbi.The accused, Bhaylu alias Raju Bamaniya, a native of Dahod district working in Rayasangpar village, was held by Halvad police…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal government on Monday appointed chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal, who was top official in a the state responsible for overseeing and conducting elections, chief secreatary of the Suvendu-led dispensation.The chief secretary is the top bureaucrat of a state government and the senior-most IAS officer, responsible for coordinating all departments…
As India’s LPG crisis intensifies, domestic cylinder deliveries have been significantly delayed across major cities including Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Gurugram and Kolkata. What was once a 1–3 day turnaround has now stretched into weeks, leaving households scrambling to manage daily cooking needs.Consumers across the country report waiting anywhere between 10 and over 30 days for…
8th pay commission on Monday began a two-day interaction programme in Lucknow, where it is scheduled to hold 54 meetings with unions, associations and individuals representing departments including railways, defence, health, revenue, communications, CPWD and agriculture. Central government employees may not have to wait until the end of 2027 for revised salaries and pensions if…
Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son, Bandi Bageerath HYDERABAD: Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s son, Bandi Sai Bageerath, moved the Telangana high court seeking an interim anticipatory bail in connection with a case against him under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act for allegedly…
In a remote stretch of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, something quietly unsettling has begun to emerge from the ground. Fragments of bone, scattered within ancient sediments, are being studied for what they might represent rather than what they obviously are. Among them are remains attributed to early Homo sapiens, dated to around 100,000 years ago, and…
Kolkata: A day after the arrest of Baduria Municipality chairman Dipankar Bhattacharya, police unearthed a huge cache of cash, amounting to Rs 2 crore 24 lakh, buried in a jute field adjacent to his farmhouse at Batuldanga in North 24 Parganas.Police said several sacks and trolley bags stuffed with currency notes were recovered during the…
Pune: A significant rise in applications for piped natural gas (PNG) connections has been reported in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, following a coordinated initiative by the state cooperation department to convert eligible housing societies, officials told TOI on Saturday.This surge in demand has led Maharashtra Natural Gas Ltd (MNGL) to plan a capacity expansion starting from…
IMD has forecast a possible change in weather from May 11 under the influence of a western disturbance Gurgaon: Clear skies over the past 24 hours have raised the minimum temperature across the city by 3-4 degrees Celsius after a brief spell of relatively cooler weather earlier this week.The city’s minimum temperature on Thursday was…
Pune: The proportion of vacant office spaces in Pune declined between Jan and June due to limited new supply entering the market. Office vacancy in the city fell to 14.1% in the first half of 2026 from 14.9% during the same period last year, according to Knight Frank India.Similarly, Anarock estimated that vacancy levels dropped…
