Chennai: Overflowing dumpsters continue to be a common sight in the three Greater Chennai Corporation-controlled zones —Tondiarpet, Anna Nagar and Ambattur. In these areas, which generate up to 1,000 tonnes of waste a day, GCC has been handling solid waste management by deploying NULM staff directly under its payroll. The dumpsters on Cooum River Road…
HC flags non-compliance of pre-arrest norms, CCTV lapses in detection case A view of Telangana High court in Hyderabad on Sunday. Pic: Suman Reddy D Hyderabad: The Telangana high court, on Tuesday, directed the District Legal Services Authorities of Nalgonda and Suryapet to submit, within two weeks, a comprehensive report on the procedures followed in…
Kolkata: Trinamool has moved to replace Firhad Hakim as chief whip, signalling a sharper break with neta. The party emailed the assembly speaker late on Monday, nominating MLA Madan Mitra for the post. On Tuesday, TMC MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay went to the speaker’s office with a hard copy, but officials declined to accept it, calling…
Valpoi: Heavy rain triggered several incidents of tree falling, damage to property and power disruption across Sattari taluka on Tuesday.A jungle tree fell on the road and an electric pole near Anjunem dam at Keri, while another tree collapsed onto a garage and blocked a road at Narayan Nagar, Honda. Another tree fall incident was…
Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel visits a primary schoo as he launches ‘Shala Praveshotsav’ at Vadnagar, in Mehsana on Tuesday. Gandhinagar: Chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Tuesday launched Praveshotsav, the statewide school enrolment drive, from a school in Vadnagar district of north Gujarat. Deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi was present at a school in Adalaj, while…
Amritsar: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday expressed concern over reports that the Maharashtra government plans to repeal the 1956 Act governing the management of Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded, and replace it with a new law.In a statement, SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami said Takht Sri Hazur Sahib, one of Sikhism‘s…
Currently, the civic administration lacks an official database of cable and broadband providers as they are not registered with any municipal department Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has extended the deadline for cable and broadband operators to seek formal permission for overhead networks till June 30. The decision follows a dismal response to…
Wedding dreams cut short for Nilesh Kumar and Anamika Samant; bride’s cousin also dies LUCKNOW: They had vowed to spend the rest of their lives together. Nilesh Kumar, 27, and Anamika Samant, 30, had got engaged a few days ago and were due to get married soon. However, their dream went up in flames.The two…
(L-R) Vipul Sulania and Prem Chand Bairwa Jaipur: City police Tuesday arrested a father-son duo for allegedly forging sale deeds, agreements and affidavits to claim ownership of a plot belonging to the family of a retired Rajasthan Administrative Service (RAS) officer who died during the Covid pandemic.DCP (South) Rajarshi Raj Varma identified the accused as…
New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a Delhi HC order releasing Rashid Khan, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the March 1993 blast in Kolkata that killed 69 and injured more than 100 people just four days after underworld-triggered serial bomb blasts in Mumbai killed 257 and injured over 700 as retaliation for the…
