NEW DELHI: New model launches, led almost entirely by sport utility vehicles, helped several automakers post record July sales, suggesting that in an otherwise competitive passenger vehicle market, fresh products are increasingly deciding the winners.Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles registered the strongest growth among the larger manufacturers, with sales jumping 59% year-on-year to 63,760 units. While…
New Delhi: The city saw the warmest July day and night in two years. The maximum temperature rose to 39.2 degrees celsius, four degrees above normal, while the minimum temperature settled at 30.2 degrees, three notches above normal Thursday. The heat index or the ‘feels-like’ temperature stood at 48 degrees celsius at 2.30 pm.Higher maximum…
The district court complex, which was damaged in the recent blaze, also did not have a fire NOC Gurgaon: In the wake of the recent fire at the district court complex, the district administration has ordered a fire safety audit of the mini secretariat and other major govt buildings.Officials said the incident exposed serious gaps…
Hyderabad: A 19-year-old worker was electrocuted and two others suffered electric shocks while erecting flexi boards for Bonalu celebrations in Narsapur town of Medak district early on Friday. The accident occurred when an iron frame being carried by the workers accidentally came in contact with an overhead power line.The deceased was identified as M Harshavardhan…
Pralhad Joshi; Priyanka Gandhi Vadra NEW DELHI: Congress MPs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of appointing as the new education minister a leader who had “expressed happiness over the release of those who raped a pregnant woman.“Union minister Pralhad Joshi has been given additional charge of the…
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee sat down at a roadside tea stall in Collins Lane on Tuesday, and spoke to locals, after the EC didn’t allow her to take out a rally in the area. The rally had to be cancelled at the eleventh hour after an EC representative told TMC the rally couldn’t be taken…
Voters’ lists will be updated Pune: The district administration will launch a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive of electoral rolls across the district to make voters’ lists more accurate, transparent and updated, district collector and district election officer Jitendra Dudi said on Monday.Around 91.16 lakh voter records will be physically verified through door-to-door visits. The…
Key accused was taking instructions over phone on how to manufacture the drug MUMBAI: In a major drug bust, the Kandivli anti-narcotics cell (ANC) unearthed an illegal mephedrone (MD) manufacturing lab operating out of a rented one-BHK flat in South Mumbai’s Agripada and arrested three accused, including a suspected Bangladeshi woman, leaving police stunned as…
Kailash Mansarovar Yatra pilgrims recall how they narrowly escaped Nepal floods MUMBAI: ‘Had we been there the following day, we too would have been trapped’ said a Kailash Mansarovar pilgrim recalled after returning from Nepal, describing how his group narrowly escaped the devastating floods.Speaking to the media, pilgrim Bajranga Laxman said the group had left…
Gross exports jumped 26% year-on-year to $2.2 billion in June from $1.7 billion a year ago Surat: Defying geopolitical tensions and subdued global consumer sentiment, India’s gem and jewellery exports posted a robust recovery in June, driven by strong demand for gold jewellery, stabilising natural diamond prices and a sharp rise in lab-grown diamond exports.Gross…
