Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the BMC and the state to take action against illegal hawkers in Goregaon and file a compliance affidavit, in response to a petition by an association of licensed shopkeepers from the suburb alleging that illegal hawkers were not only taking away their business, but also threatening them.The…
A potholed stretch of VIP Road Kolkata: Spells of rain have damaged stretches of city roads so much that Kolkata Traffic Police has asked civic agencies — especially Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state PWD — to repair them. Cops have sent an initial list of battered stretches to KMC. Cops said these stretches…
Four kilometres beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight and far from shipping lanes, lies a forgotten chapter of the nuclear age.Scattered across a vast stretch of seabed are more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste. They were lowered into the ocean over several decades during the second half of…
Mumbai: The East region cyber police station on July 23 registered a case against unknown mobile users for publishing and transmitting material depicting children in sexually explicit acts on social media.The case was registered after the cyber police received a complaint from the state govt, alerting it through a “tip line” about videos and photos…
India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: When Indian pugilist Jadumani Singh Mandengbam stepped onto the podium to receive the men’s 55kg silver medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, it marked the culmination of a journey that had almost ended before it had even begun.The 22-year-old Manipuri boxer was one of India’s…
Chennai: “Since 1967, only people from the cine industry are ruling Tamil Nadu. All the chief ministers from 1967 were from the cinema. We voted them to power. Then what made the former minister make such a speech?” asked Justice G K Ilanthiraiyan while dismissing an anticipatory bail application of former DMK minister Anitha R…
Guwahati: Industries, commerce & public enterprises minister Bimal Borah told the assembly on Tuesday that the City Gas Distribution (CGD) network, which was available in only seven districts in 2016, has now expanded to 35 districts, marking a major transformation in Assam’s clean energy landscape.The minister was responding to the subject of CNG, PNG and…
Chandigarh: A speeding Mercedes car tried to mow down two men over a minor argument outside a nightclub in Chandigarh’s Sector 26 on Saturday evening, police said on Sunday after arresting the driver, Akhil, a Faridabad resident. He was soon released on bail.The confrontation began after Alliancepreet Singh of Sector 44 and his friend Amjad…
A fan ate ‘mann soru,’ a ritual of eating food from the floor, while a few walked on their knees for the success of chief minister C Joesph Vijay’s Jana Nayagan Chennai: Governance briefly took a back seat on Thursday as the ruling establishment —including Tamil Nadu assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar, senior minister…
In a quiet stretch of Tasmania’s west coast, where the weather shifts without much warning and the land feels older than anything built on it, a large steel structure has been slowly entering the conversation around climate records. The project, known as Earth’s Black Box, has been described in plain terms by its creators, though…
