A thick haze enveloped Ahmedabad on Thursday Ahmedabad: The relentless heat clamping down on Ahmedabad finally loosened its grip, if only by a fraction, on Thursday. After a gruelling three-day streak of temperatures soaring above the 44°C mark, the city clocked a maximum of 43.7°C.While it’s a marginal step down from Wednesday’s 44.1°C, the air…
Panaji: With the distant but much-feared El Nino system set to roll into its sphere of influence in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean off the Peru coast, weathermen poring over past data, however, state that Goa may escape its dreaded impact.Analysis of data from the past 11 El Nino years showed that only a few…
Amritsar: BJP leader and former bureaucrat Jagmohan Raju who had unsuccessfully contested the Amritsar East assembly elections in 2022 has sought registration of an FIR under the new anti-sacrilege law in connection with alleged acts of sacrilege, desecration, and damage caused to saroops/birs of Guru Granth Sahib during the events of June 1984 at Golden…
A shocking murder in Kengeri has been uncovered after a mother and son, allegedly addicted to alcohol, killed a 70-year-old woman (AI image) BENGALURU: A shocking murder in Kengeri came to light after a drunken mother-son duo killed a 70-year-old woman and attempted to conceal the crime, only for it to be exposed when they…
US plans to send those who are waiting for their Green Card back to their home countries. In a huge move, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is going to ask individuals who are waiting for their Green Cards to leave the country and wait in their own country. The USCIS announced new guidance directing…
ET Startup Awards 2024 Jury Meeting Bengaluru: Swiggy has appointed former Myntra chief Nandita Sinha as CEO of Instamart, replacing Amitesh Jha, even as the quick-commerce unit’s former chief operating officer, Ankit Jain, has joined Nykaa.The back-to-back appointments put the spotlight on leadership churn at Instamart. Jha, who took charge in Aug 2024, resigned on…
Pune: With two months into the academic year, around 57,000 students in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) schools are still waiting for essential supplies, including school bags, shoes, raincoats and other educational materials.The PCMC runs 110 primary and 24 secondary schools. Every year, the civic body provides the students with school bags, raincoats, shoes, socks, notebooks,…
Mumbai: In a move that could fundamentally alter how private medical colleges in Maharashtra admit students, the state CET Cell has proposed doing away with the controversial institutional round, the final stage of admissions that has for years operated outside the centralised counselling process overseen by govt.The proposal, officials confirmed, has already received clearance from…
The partnership will explore opportunities to develop systems and subsystems for missiles, radars, satellites and navigation system BENGALURU: Ananth Technologies and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have signed an MoU to jointly develop and manufacture advanced electronic systems for defence and aerospace applications, in a move aimed at expanding indigenous capabilities in strategic technologies.The partnership will…
One man died and seven others were injured in two accidents due to waterlogging issues and pothole-riddled roads in Howrah Howrah: One man died and seven others were injured in two accidents due to waterlogging issues and pothole-riddled roads in Howrah.On Wednesday, Sahadeb Bachar (36) died after falling into rainwater accumulated on a road in…
