Ludhiana: A former aide to Aam Aadmi Party legislator Ashok Parashar Pappi has accused the lawmaker and his son of extorting money for jobs and laundering funds through overseas transfers, claims which the MLA has denied.The development comes just as central agencies arrested a Punjab minister in a related graft investigation. Nikhil Sabharwal, who described…
Three Navy personnel killed in helicopter crash in Devon. Three members of the Royal Navy have died after a military helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Devon, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.The incident occurred near Sourton Down, close to Okehampton, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Emergency services were alerted at around…
Pune: An 18-year-old farmer from Shirur taluka was electrocuted on Wednesday evening, trying to pump water for his cattle on the farm.The incident happened at Savindane village in Shirur taluka, about 60 km from Pune around 7.30 pm. The Pune Rural police have identified the deceased farmer as Ganesh Bhor. An officer said, “It was…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday visited Rajghat in the national capital and paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. He was accompanied by former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, leader of opposition Atishi and other party leaders, amid his announcement of a boycott in proceedings related to the Delhi Excise…
Mumbai woke up to a delightful change on Sunday as light showers swept across the city, easing the oppressive heat and humidity (Representative image) MUMBAI: Mumbai saw light rainfall across different parts of the city on Sunday morning.Between 6am and 7am, rain recorded in Ghatkopar was 24 mm, Chembur 20 mm, Mankhurd 16 mm, Worli…
Jind: Two youths were killed and four others injured after a vehicle carrying members of a wedding party met with an accident on the Delhi–Patiala national highway near Baroda village in Jind district late Wednesday night.According to police, an Ertiga carrying nine youths was travelling from Chhattar village to Baroda village as part of a…
Reducing gap between guideline value and actual market value Chennai: Streets in Tamil Nadu’s market value guideline register will now be classified as commercial, mixed-use or residential based on the share of commercial electricity connections, as part of a correction exercise ordered by the Registration Department to address eight categories of anomalies identified by a…
. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has warned private internet and television cable operators against unauthorised installation of overhead wires on poles across the city Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has ordered all internet service providers (ISPs), optical fibre operators, and broadband companies to submit operational documents within 30 days. The move comes…
For many people, financial independence marks the end of a working life. For Bill Holland, it marked the point at which a very different career began. He had already earned enough money to stop working before most people had established themselves professionally, yet retirement never appealed for long. As reported by Fortune reports, decades later,…
IIT Guwahati develops new technology that removes arsenic and fluoride from groundwater within minutes Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have developed a new water-treatment technology that can remove two major groundwater contaminants — arsenic and fluoride — simultaneously within minutes. The low-cost system could eventually help communities in areas where groundwater contamination…
