Monsoon reaches Delhi after delay, cools city with light showers. NEW DELHI: The southwest monsoon finally reached Delhi on Thursday, five days after its normal date of onset on June 27, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said.It made a modest start, with Safdarjung, the city’s base weather station, recording 4.6 mm of overnight rainfall. Several…
Chennai: If you are visiting the corporation-run park at Indira Nagar in Adyar, look out for the QR code-embedded display boards next to plants and trees. Scanning them directs you to a website, providing a crisp 200-word summary on the plant species.These boards were designed and installed a month ago by local residents. “Several youngsters…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to “decline any recognition to separate faction of TMC”.Banerjee said reports suggesting that a group of TMC MPs may seek recognition as an independent bloc were legally untenable. He asserted that the TMC remains a “single,…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the 8th International Tax Conference in Bengaluru. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said India has renegotiated its tax treaties with Mauritius, Singapore and Cyprus to restore the country’s right to tax capital gains arising from investments in India at the source.Speaking about India’s tax policy and international taxation framework,…
Pune: A 20-month-old girl was run over by a tempo while it was being reversed at the entrance of Omkar Rose Nursery at Soratpawadi Phata on Pune-Solapur Highway around 9.30am on Sunday.The Uruli Kanchan police on Monday registered a case against the tempo driver for rash and negligent driving. Senior inspector Vijaymala Pawar of Uruli…
The 73-year-old complainant alleged he had been kept under “digital arrest” for 10 days in Jan last year and forced to transfer his life savings of Rs 1,74,10,500 to the swindlers Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has for the first time ordered a CBI probe into a digital arrest complaint, lodged by a retired Air Force…
India’s major reservoirs are holding just 26 per cent of their live capacity There’s a particular kind of math millions of Indians have learned this summer: how many buckets can you fill before the tap pressure drops, or which day of the week the water actually comes. It’s no longer an emergency routine. It’s just…
Zepto’s alleged ‘20-kg’ internship rule sparks outrage: Is gender being used as a hiring filter? We are in 2026. We ostentatiously talk about the glorifying women’s empowerment theme and how girls are making space in every sector. Yet, sachets of gender inequality are thrown over almost every aisle we stroll. What does a computer science…
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has given followers another glimpse into her private family life through a new Instagram post. The collection featured a series of candid photographs and short clips from her home in Montecito, California. The post offered a mix of recent family moments and nostalgic memories. Meghan captioned the collection, “Springing into summer”,…
Jaipur: With urban local body and panchayat elections on the horizon, long-awaited political appointments in the state are expected to gather pace as BJP seeks to balance regional and social representation while accommodating party leaders awaiting key assignments.Despite being in power for more than two-and-a-half years, the ruling party has made only a limited number…
