Jaipur: Udaipur police, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) and child rights organisations rescued 91 child labourers from textile factories in Surat during a joint operation on May 13, officials said.Police said the children, aged between seven and 14, had been trafficked and forced to work in textile units for meagre wages. Most were from tribal…
Waiting for food at our favourite place is not new to us. Generations of hungry diners have patiently stood outside legacy institutions—whether waiting for a vintage table at Peter Cat in Kolkata, navigating the chaotic sidewalk outside Koshy’s in Bengaluru, lining up for baida roti at Mumbai’s BadeMiya, or braving the pavement for legendary chole…
Dibrugarh: Assam governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya visited the Nagaghuli Ghat along the Brahmaputra in Dibrugarh on Wednesday as part of his ongoing tour of the district and reviewed flood control and erosion prevention measures.Acharya held detailed discussions with water resources department officials on the maintenance and long-term sustainability of the riverbank erosion control and flood…
Guwahati airport Terminal 2 Guwahati: Three retired civil service officers have urged airport authorities to add Assamese to the public announcements at Guwahati airport’s Terminal 2.Kuladhar Saikia (ex-IPS), Jyotirmoy Chakrabarty (ex-IPS) and Mukul Chandra Gogoi (ex-ACS) raised the issue last Friday, citing civil aviation directives that mandate or encourage regional languages alongside Hindi and English.“The…
Manoj Meena had an offer most engineering students in India spend years chasing.An Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) job was waiting for him after his final year at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. For his family in rural Rajasthan, the decision seemed already made. A government job meant stability. Stability was not something…
Following Monday morning showers, the situation remained unchanged, with numerous roads flooded. NOIDA: Over 20,000 residents residing in several highrises in Sector 1 of Greater Noida West, including Ace Divino, Flora Heritage, AIG Royal, Antriksh, Krishna County, Bisrakh Gaon and more, face severe inconvenience due to a deteriorating road situation exacerbated by heavy monsoon rains….
As households become increasingly busy, on-demand house-help services are emerging as a valuable addition to domestic help (Representative image generated using AI) BENGALURU: Twenty-year-old Saraswati Oad is used to walking into other people’s homes and being told which chore she needs to take up first. Be it a sink full of utensils, a dusty floor,…
Long before ‘Peddi’ sparked a debate about how women are represented on screen, Janhvi Kapoor had already put her position on record. In an April interview on Raj Shamani’s podcast, the actor spoke with striking clarity about consent, over-sexualisation, and her evolving confidence in asserting boundaries on film sets. Those remarks, largely noted at the…
Rajkot: A 21-year-old student of Saurashtra University has lodged a complaint at the University police station against a city bus driver for allegedly running over her leg inside the campus last month.According to police, complainant Ishita Gadhecha said the incident occurred on April 6 near the statistics department when she and her friend, Priyanka Makwana,…
Ajmer: The Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Jaipur Road received another hoax bomb threat via email Thursday morning, prompting a massive security operation .The email, sent to the RTO’s official email address, claimed that seven TDX and cyanide gas bombs were planted on the premises.Although the email was received around 5 am, officials noticed it…
