New Delhi: About 260 people, including 10 MPs, were detained by Delhi Police Tuesday after an INDIA bloc march from Parliament towards the Election Commission of India (ECI) office breached police barricades and continued despite repeated warnings, police said.Police said they received information through social media that the INDIA bloc would take out a march…
Mumbai: The IIT-Bombay administration is planning to put the one-semester suspension rule for acts of copying on hold for the time being. Instead, it is likely to go back to the old guidelines approved by the institute’s senate in 2015, which, sources from the institute claimed, called for suspension only in cases of mass cheating…
Bengaluru: Sleuths from Enforcement Directorate tightened the noose around former Karnataka Public Service Commission chairperson Shivashankarappa S Sahukar after a student recorded unusually high marks in the veterinary recruitment exams this year.The candidate under the scanner was Suguresh, a close relative of Sahukar. According to an FIR, his high exam score was ‘abnormal’. Sahukar was…
Chennai: Amma Unavagams promise a square meal to anyone who walks in, but several infrastructure issues continue to plague the dining experience. With the northeast monsoon approaching and the city having only 111 community kitchens, Chennai is expected to rely heavily on Amma Unavagams to provide food during emergencies and floods.TOI visited Amma Unavagams across…
Hyderabad: The state govt has reorganised the jurisdiction and policing structure of Future City commissionerate, creating new police stations for women and traffic units while redrawing the limits of several existing stations, zones and divisions.Under the GO issued by the home department on Tuesday, the existing Shadnagar, Chevella and Maheshwaram areas have been structured under…
– A day after a man was killed after an exposed pipe on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway impaled him, NHAI said that they are in the process of removing hand railings from all the flyovers and it will be removed within two months, saying they don’t serve their purpose anymore. (Hero Honda flyover).________________Picture by Vinay Gupta…
Kolkata: The anti-corruption branch (ACB) of Bengal Police on Tuesday arrested a sub-assistant engineer of the West Bengal State Rural Development Agency in Hooghly for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a govt contractor.An ACB officer said the accused engineer demanded the money from the contractor in exchange for releasing the earnest money…
Centre has asked Delhi and the three adjoining NCR cities to include medians and road shoulders in road construction and repair works to check dust Ghaziabad: State govt has sanctioned Rs 122 crore to Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation to check dust pollution as air quality has been deteriorating within the ‘poor’ category since the beginning of…
Officials have now decided to first obtain GSPCB’s observations before deciding whether it can be restarted Margao: A waste-management plant at SGPDA Wholesale Fish Market, conceived to process market waste and generate gas for supply to hotels and other users, was never fully developed or operationalised, a recent meeting convened by deputy collector and SDO-I,…
Varanasi/Lucknow: Nearly 50 women entrepreneurs, investors and digital creators will take on the role of destination storytellers as Uttar Pradesh Tourism brings its ‘Visit My State’ campaign from Lucknow to Varanasi and Sarnath from Oct 7 to 9.Organised by Uttar Pradesh Tourism in coordination with FICCI FLO, the three-day familiarisation journey has been designed to…
