Bengaluru: Conflict between Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Ltd (BSWML) and its contractors has escalated into a full-blown civic crisis, with garbage piling up across the city. Officials from Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) have now stepped in, with one of them stating, “There is a clear breakdown in coordination between the implementing agency and contractors.”The dispute,…
Narsampet/Hyderabad: Three Telangana State Road Transport Corporation drivers attempted suicide in different districts as the employees’ strike entered second day on Thursday.The first case was reported from Narsampet (Warangal district), where a 55-year-old driver attempted self-immolation. K Shankar Goud suffered 80% burns in the incident and was shifted to a private hospital in Hyderabad for…
Residents pointed out that the absence of a dedicated 33kV substation has left the area vulnerable Gurgaon: Two days after the state directed faster transformer replacement to curb outages, a fault in a power cable left more than 10,000 residents of Ramprastha City and Signature Global Millennia in Sector 37D without electricity for over 30…
Nandigram: During the polls of 2021, a wheelchair-bound Mamata Banerjee chose Nandigram’s Boyal as her anchorage, scripting one of the defining moments of a razor-edge contest. In 2026, it was Suvendu Adhikari — once her opponent, now facing aide-turned-foe Pabitra Kar — choosing the same Boyal as his basecamp. It’s here that all eyes tracking…
Three of the accused, Aakriti, Srishti and Manisha, being taken to court by police on Thursday Noida: A city court on Thursday allowed conditional police remand of three women — Aakriti Chaudhary, Manisha Chauhan and Srishti Gupta — accused of inciting violence during the industrial workers’ protest on April 13. The court also allowed their…
Varanasi: Rohania police filed a chargesheet against fugitive codeine syrup smuggling syndicate kingpin Shubham Jaiswal’s partner, Saurabh Tyagi of Ghaziabad, from whom Rohania police had recovered stock.DCP Varuna Zone Pramod Kumar on Thursday said Tyagi is lodged in Tripura jail. Chargesheet against other accused persons was already filed in the case, while, after completing necessary…
Ahmedabad: On Thursday, the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) carried out a raid at a bungalow situated in the Nikol area of the city, where a unit manufacturing fake ghee was unearthed. In a room on the first floor of the bungalow, ghee was being manufactured using a blend of vegetable fat and…
TNN Ludhiana: Samrala police on Wednesday claimed to have solved an extortion case with the arrest of five members of a gang which allegedly demanded Rs 50 lakh from a village sarpanch.DSP (Samrala) Pritpal Singh said that on April 18, Baljit Singh, a resident of Manjali Kalan village in Samrala, received a threat call on…
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (Punar Surjit) on Thursday released its vision document, promising laws against “forced religious conversions” and to ensure justice in sacrilege cases, along with organisational reforms such as “one family, one ticket”.The 24-page document, titled Akali Ailannama, was released by party chief Giani Harpreet Singh, who said it was prepared in line…
