Bhilwara: Jaswant Kanwar, a first-time councillor and BJP worker, was elected unopposed as the first woman mayor of Bhilwara Municipal Corporation Thursday after independent councillor Santosh Kanwar withdrew her nomination.The 38-year-old BJP candidate filed her nomination Wednesday. No Congress candidate had filed a nomination for the mayoral election.Bhilwara Municipal Corporation has 70 wards, of which…
For patients, this could mean an additional safeguard against medicines sold without prescriptions or accessed via illegal channels. NEW DELHI: Buying prescription medicines from a medical store could soon be recorded on CCTV, with the footage required to be kept for at least three months, under a draft amendment to the Drugs Rules, 1945, proposed…
A Rhode Island pilot is demonstrating how fibreglass boat recycling could provide an alternative to sending old and derelict vessels to landfill. The programme shredded fibreglass hulls and sent the material to a cement manufacturer for use in cement production. According to a Rhode Island Marine Trade Association Foundation report, the pilot recycled 80 short…
Judge Amogh Shyamkant Kaloti has also worked as Joint Secretary, Secretary and SLA in Law and Judiciary Department, Government of Maharashtra MUMBAI: Till recently, Amogh Kaloti, who works under the law and judiciary department headed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, was barely known outside Maharashtra’s legal circles. A low-profile district judge who was appointed Maharashtra’s…
Lady Gaga and fiance Michael Polansky are parents to a baby girl!The star couple had fans on baby watch last week after they were spotted on a day out with an infant. A TMZ report now confirms that the couple are parents to a baby girl and have named the little one Rose Bean Polansky….
A 16-year-old student from Massachusetts has turned an everyday item into an award-winning recycling project. Benjamin Davis, a junior at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, developed a desktop machine that processes 3D-printed waste and other plastics into reusable filament for 3D printers. His work earned him the $75,000 Regeneron Young Scientist Award at the…
General:You might feel as if the day never stops moving over your shoulder, asking for another task followed by another. Mars is a force for effort, whereas Saturn requires patience, and therefore tension and agitation can be present even if you’re doing everything correctly.Don’t be afraid of your courage today. A little encouragement from your…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has initiated contempt of court proceedings against a superintendent at Tihar jail, taking a dim view of the “flimsy and untenable excuses” he made while delaying the release of a convict on parole despite the court’s directions.Justice Purushaindra K Kaurav said the jail administration made a “mockery” of the legal…
Mumbai: Income Tax Appellate Tribunal’s (ITAT) Mumbai bench recently held that genuine business expenditure cannot be disallowed merely because it was initially paid through a spouse’s credit card and later reimbursed to her.This order is relevant for small business owners, professionals and family-run businesses, where personal and business payment arrangements may sometimes overlap for practical…
Bengaluru: Lokayukta police Thursday trapped a Central GST official while accepting a bribe of Rs 8 lakh through a middleman.GST superintendent Mohit Pratap Singh (south division-4, A-range, south commissionerate), had demanded Rs 20 lakh from a businessman dealing with iron materials to close a case registered against him, according to Lokayukta police. Besides Singh, police…
