New Delhi: A 51-year-old scrap dealer was shot at in New Delhi’s Tughlaq Road area on Thursday. The victim was identified as Baba Rafiq.According to police, a PCR call reporting the shooting was received on Thursday evening.A senior police officer clarified that the incident did not take place inside a park. Rafiq was standing near…
Mumbai: A 64-year-old man died while his wife and two firemen were injured after a fire broke out on the top floor of the Atlantic Building on Sherly Rajan Road in Bandra West late on Wednesday night. The fire was brought under control close to midnight. Initially, several people were feared to have been trapped…
Bengaluru: In an unprecedented shift in an otherwise female-dominated field, male students accounted for 33% of the BSc Nursing graduates at the recent convocation of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). More than 10,000 of the 31,057 graduating students were men.Five years ago, in 2021, this number was 1,838 (of the total 10,804), thus…
Chennai: Invoking former chief minister C N Annadurai’s principle that three-language formula should not be pursued and only Tamil and English should be taught, TVK govt led by C Joseph Vijay on Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to Tamil Nadu’s two-language policy. This was part of Tamil Nadu Governor R V Arlekar’s address in the state…
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court on Thursday ordered a three-week stay on all proceedings in the recently concluded auction of a 6.2-acre parcel of land at Knowledge City in Raidurg. Real estate firm Gowra Ventures Pvt Ltd had acquired the land for a record Rs 237 crore per acre (Rs 1,490 crore) on May 28.Justice…
According to the MCG, the haphazard installation of cables has not only affected the city’s appearance but has also created serious public safety concerns Gurgaon: MCG on Thursday directed all broadband internet service operators and cable television operators to rectify improperly installed overhead cables across the city by Aug 31, warning that non-compliant networks will…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday told a Trinamool delegation that personal security officers (PSOs) assigned to former CM Mamata Banerjee would be decided by the security establishment and not on the basis of individual preference, according to sources.The issue arose after two PSOs who had been attached to Banerjee for nearly two decades were…
Noida: A Noida court on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a man accused of establishing sexual relations with a woman on the pretext of marriage. The additional sessions judge said the allegations were of a serious nature, and that there was insufficient ground to grant the applicant protection from arrest.Citing the Supreme Court’s…
Times News NetworkMapusa: A young woman died on the spot, and two men were critically injured in a multi-vehicle collision involving a speeding Mahindra Thar, two scooters, and a parked goods carrier at Morjim late Wednesday, police said.Police arrested the driver, 45-year-old Vikram Ashok Gaba, a Haryana native residing in Calangute, on Thursday. He had…
Varanasi: UP has prepared a major plan for renovation, repair, restoration and reconstruction of 25 govt primary and secondary schools in Varanasi district, at a cost of approximately Rs 25 crore. The tender process will soon be initiated by the executing agency and work will be carried out by Northern Coalfields Ltd from their corporate…
