Ludhiana: BJP leader Jiwan Gupta has taken a swipe at the municipal corporation over the dilapidated state of the city bus fleet, sarcastically suggesting that the parking site be turned into a museum. Dozens of buses, once part of the Ludhiana City Bus Service Ltd, are rotting away at Hambran Road and Tajpur Road, slowly…
Chandigarh: Observing that road re-carpeting works in the city are not being monitored by the engineering officers concerned, the chief engineer of the Chandigarh civic body has warned the officials that any delay in work implementation would invite punitive action.Chief engineer Sanjay Arora has written to the superintending engineer and all three executive engineers of…
Surat: The Gujarat High Court has stayed the arrest of a man in a rape case filed by the woman who was in a relationship with him for 18 years. The FIR was registered with the Dindoli police station after the man allegedly refused to marry her.During the hearing of the quashing petition, the accused…
Shillong: The high court of Meghalaya has directed authorities to strictly monitor the transportation of minerals and boulders to Bangladesh, ensuring that no vehicle carrying such materials is allowed to pass through the Land Customs Station and forest department check gates without a valid transport challan or other requisite documents.A division bench of Chief Justice…
Lucknow: Lending a fresh push to its PDA (Pichde, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) outreach, Samajwadi Party has appointed Seema Rajbhar as national president of the party’s Mahila Sabha.The development comes barely a month after the party nominated Rukmani Devi Nishad, elder sister of former MP Phoolan Devi, as the state president of Mahila Sabha.In the political…
Rajkot: A dispute over unpaid loan escalated into a murder after a 28-year-old man was stabbed multiple times by six men in Khakhrechi village of Morbi’s Maliya Miyana taluka post Tuesday midnight.The victim Anil Kandaniya was attacked around 1am at the grounds of a hotel.The complaint lodged by Kandaniya’s friend Vivek Patel at the Maliya…
Jaipur: The Palace on Wheels has reported a 45% surge in passenger traffic this year despite the turbulence of global travel markets.In FY 2025-26, the train operated 23 trips, carrying 854 passengers. For the first time in its 43-year history, it booked a full-train charter in May that would take the final tally to 938…
KOLKATA: A day before polling for the first of the two-phase assembly election in Bengal, Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday gave a “bodol noy, bodla chai (revenge, not change)” call, flipping her old slogan of “bodla noy, bodol chai (change, not revenge)” of 2011, when she demolished the decades-old Left Front fort in the state with…
US President Donald Trump has stated that the Washington “totally controls” the Strait of Hormuz and described the ongoing naval blockade as a “tremendous success.” However according to a Financial Times report at least 34 Iran-linked tankers have managed to bypass the restrictions and continued operations in the region since the US blockade began.Earlier this…
TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to suicide.Darrell Sheets, star of the longtime A&E reality series ‘Storage Wars’, has sadly passed away. He was 67.Lake Havasu City police said he died of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.According to the Arizona police department, officers were dispatched to Sheets’ residence in…
