A massive fire engulfed a furniture market in Delhi’s Shastri Park, prompting an angry response from locals who allegedly pelted stones at initial fire tenders due to a perceived slow response NEW DELHI: Fire tenders sent to tackle a massive blaze at a furniture market in Delhi’s Shastri Park were allegedly pelted with stones late…
Mumbai: A 49-year-old senior officer attached to a credit cooperative society died nearly three weeks after suffering serious head injuries in a road accident on the Eastern Express Highway near the Airoli Bridge landing. Police have registered a case against the accused driver for causing death by negligence and rash driving.Navghar police said according to…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has reduced a one-year jail term of a driver to one day of simple imprisonment in an accident case, considering he had shifted the victim to a hospital immediately after the incident.In its April 28 order, the high court, however, directed Riyaz Ahmed to pay Rs 1 lakh in enhanced…
Students taking photographs to use in the online hall tickets for the Tancet exam Chennai: Anna University declared the results for common engineering entrance test and admissions (CEETA-PG) and Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (Tancet) on Friday. The top 400 rankers of CEETA-PG from the 2026-27 batch will get a scholarship with ₹10,000 a month….
Man sexually assaults girl, arrested Hyderabad: A 34-year-old man has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly sexually assaulting his live-in partner’s teenage daughter.Police said the accused had been living with a 33-year-old woman for the past five years. The woman, estranged from her husband, resided there with…
A transformer blast at a Gurgaon substation plunged vast areas into darkness, highlighting the strain on NCR’s power grid amidst extreme heat and record demand. GURGAON: A transformer blast at a 220kV substation in Sector 72 plunged large parts of Gurgaon into darkness on Friday evening, exposing the mounting pressure on NCR’s power infrastructure as…
Kolkata: Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) chairman G Immanuel, who is also the president of Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE), hinted that he will discuss the issue of an increasing number of dummy schools at the higher secondary level at an upcoming meeting in June to find a solution to this…
Panaji: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has written to state govt seeking designation of exclusive courts to try CBI-investigated cases and to transfer 39 pending trials to such designated courts.Panaji: Upset upon hearing that the unique mangrove boardwalk behind the Central Library at Patto is about to be dismantled, architect Gerard da Cunha plans…
Ahmedabad: The Centre’s Department of Space (DoS) cleared the way for clusters manufacturing space-tech equipment and testing facilities in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. In a two-pronged approach, the state govts allocated land parcels dedicated to space-related manufacturing, whereas the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) was roped in to establish associated common technical…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is likely to meet cabinet minister Sanjeev Arora in Gurugram jail on Saturday. Arora was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on May 9 in connection with a new money laundering case.Arora, 62, was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following early morning raids at…
