BENGALURU: A traffic jam occurred on Old Airport Road after traffic was allegedly halted for nearly 30 minutes to facilitate the governor’s convoy, according to a post on X. The disruption, compounded by ongoing underpass construction, left hundreds of commuters stranded.Public anger intensified after a man travelling with his pregnant wife was caught in the…
Pune: The Women and Child Development (WCD) department’s audit has exposed alarming conditions inside several dharmashalas and religious hostels that house children in the temple town of Alandi, about 25 km from Pune.The WCD department officials said the exercise was aimed to identify violations and initiate action against institutions that operate illegally or fail to…
New Delhi: State-run Oil India Limited (OIL) on Friday said it has reported the presence of natural gas in its third exploratory well in the Andaman shallow offshore block, further indicating hydrocarbon potential in the region.In a regulatory filing to stock exchanges, the company said natural gas was encountered in exploratory well Vijayapuram-3, drilled 15…
CET Cell announces special extension for MBA–MMS second attempt registration MBA MMS CET 2026: The first phase of the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by the State Common Entrance Test Cell for admission to the postgraduate professional courses Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Management Studies (MMS) for the academic year 2026–27 was…
NEW DELHI: India will not have a single umpire or technical official at the upcoming FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup, starting on August 15 in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the first time since the 1998 World Cup in Utrecht that no Indian official has been selected for the tournament. Most of the officials…
Redditor says a decent job in Canada is not enough. An Indian Redditor who claimed to have been working in one of the Big 4 companies in Canada after graduating from a university there said the possibility of permanent residency in Canada looks grim. A decent job is not enough to live comfortably as the…
Patiala: A prolonged strike by outsourced meter readers has left thousands of domestic power consumers in Punjab facing inflated and consolidated electricity bills, with some receiving bills as high as Rs 1.5 lakh covering the past five to six months.Patiala-based Senior Citizens’ Welfare Society, Urban Estate, on Wednesday wrote to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited…
Kolkata: EC will deploy 2,193 quick response teams (QRTs) across 152 constituencies in 16 districts for the first phase of assembly polls on April 23.Murshidabad will see the highest deployment with 288 QRTs, followed by East Midnapore (253) and West Midnapore (248). Other districts with significant presence are Bankura (180), Birbhum (161), Malda (157), Purulia…
Bengaluru: Two men have been detained for theft of water taps from Yeshwantpur railway station and 54 such devices recovered from them.Around 5:30am Tuesday, RPF staff who noticed a man walking suspiciously at the station, detained him who identified himself as HB Shivakumar. The 46-year old had a screw driver with him and allegedly revealed…
Rajeev Chuhan went missing after a passenger boat carrying workers capsized Lucknow: A 36-year-old worker from UP’s Ambedkar Nagar has gone missing after a passenger boat carrying workers capsized in a rough sea during a storm in Maldives on July 31.Five days after the incident, Rajeev Chauhan’s family has no information about his whereabouts. They…
