While Mumbai’s green cover disappears with alarming alacrity, one tree is refusing to go down quietly. Just a few hundred metres from the municipal commissioner’s bungalow on Carmichael Road, a residents’ group is fighting to save a giant heritage banyan tree whose canopy of roots and branches has somehow survived the city’s relentless march from…
Bengaluru: State home minister Priyank Kharge Saturday said he has little information about CBI approaching governor Thaawarchand Gehlot for sanction to prosecute minister B Nagendra, and insisted the central agency must first write to the state govt before taking any such step.CBI is believed to have recently sought the governor’s nod to prosecute Nagendra, who…
Chennai: Former DMK minister V Senthilbalaji on Saturday accused the TVK govt of turning the Assembly into a platform for political confrontation, alleging that ministers were evading questions from the opposition and resorting to provocative remarks instead of providing answers. He also dared the govt to file any number of cases against the opposition, saying…
Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC) has identified over 800 unauthorised constructions across its three zones over the past year, with the highest number of violations reported in Kukatpally zone, where the latest seven-storey building collapse occurred.Of the total, 365 unauthorised constructions were identified in Kukatpally zone, followed by 224 in Quthbullapur zone and 195…
Commuters wade through a waterlogged road Gurgaon: An overnight spell of rain lasting around two hours from 1am on Saturday cooled the morning but exposed the city’s waterlogging problem once again, inundating several residential roads, major stretches and underpasses.Water accumulated on internal roads in sectors 14 and 15, Old MG Road and several parts of…
Many of the commercial establishments in the Free School Street-Marquis Street area remain shut Kolkata: A crackdown on hotels and guest houses following the fire at Shikha Inn that claimed nine lives has dealt another blow to the fragile economy of central Kolkata’s “Mini Bangladesh” looking for a turnaround, as rows of budget accommodations were…
The incident happened in Lokpriya Vihar of Khoda Ghaziabad: A 47-year-old man allegedly slit the throats of his wife and 16-year-old daughter at their fourth-floor flat in Lokpriya Vihar of Khoda on Friday night after the wife repeatedly urged him to take his depression medication.He also attacked their younger daughter (14), who escaped with injuries…
Years of encroachments, inadequate infrastructure and neglected safety SOPs have created catastrophic conditions at the twin municipal markets Margao: The twin municipal markets of Margao — the New Municipal Market and Gandhi Market — house more than a thousand traders packed into every available inch of space. Their inventory spans cosmetics and chemicals, foam and…
Varanasi: The decomposed body of a 19-year-old youth, who had been missing since Aug 6, was recovered from a cow-dung pit near Khakhariya Pokhari on Lahartara Road late Friday. Police have arrested his three friends, who allegedly killed him during a liquor party to avenge an earlier assault, dismembered his body, packed the remains in…
An early picture of Alembic Pharma in Vadodara Ahmedabad: Tracking the biggest names in Indian pharmaceuticals over a century, IIM Ahmedabad associate professor Chinmay Tumbe mapped top firms from 1920 onward and found a rare constant from Gujarat. “The data revealed that Alembic Pharmaceuticals has been among the top 25 companies for over a century…
