CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu govt is planning to move the state secretariat out of the 17th-century Fort St George to a new administrative complex to be built outside the core city, sources told TOI.Meanwhile, chief minister C Joseph Vijay, who is in agreement with several ministers on the space constraints in the heritage building, is likely…
Hyderabad: The Telangana Pollution Control Board (TGPCB) has ordered the closure of Greentek India Private Limited’s solar equipment manufacturing unit in Medak district after finding that it was operating without valid environmental clearances and had failed to prevent untreated effluent spillages.In an order issued on July 17, the board also directed the Telangana Southern Power…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police is preparing to overhaul its emergency response system by introducing the national emergency helpline number 112 alongside the existing 100 helpline.The move follows concerns expressed by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari that police response times in Bengal have been higher because the state police had not been fully integrated with the national 112…
Officials found that the four-storey building had not been maintained by the contractor, with dense vegetation blocking access to the structure Margao: Health officials inspected the abandoned under-construction Quepem police station building after complaints about overgrown vegetation at the site and directed that the premises be cleaned immediately to prevent the outbreak of vector-borne diseases.The…
Ahmedabad: Samagra Shiksha has initiated the recruitment process for gyan sahayaks in govt and grant-in-aid secondary and higher secondary schools across Gujarat. The online application process will commence from Friday, allowing eligible candidates to apply until July 30. In this phase, applications have been invited from candidates who cleared the Teacher Aptitude Test (TAT) in…
Barnala: The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission and Punjab State Women Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of the July 22 police action on sanitation workers in Barnala, seeking a report from the SSP by July 28.The move comes just a day after the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis had taken note of the incident…
IndiGo flyers wait for their bags Flyers of the IndiGo flight wait for their bags IndiGo flyers wait for their bags Flyers of the IndiGo flight wait for their bags IndiGo flyers wait for their bags Pune: On Tuesday night, passengers of an IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Pune waited longer at the baggage carousel…
Lucknow: Four construction workers were injured, three of them seriously, after falling from the seventh floor of an under-construction apartment building in Lucknow’s Mahanagar area on Thursday afternoon, prompting an investigation into the cause of the accident.The incident occurred at a high-end apartment project in Vigyanpuri under Mahanagar police station limits. According to officials, the…
NEW DELHI: BJP Thursday sought to turn the heat on Congress and its allies over the issue of paper leaks as its MPs raised slogans and carried placards in the Parliament complex, targeting Rahul Gandhi and opposition netas for not allowing a discussion on the issue despite govt’s willingness to do so.BJP president Nitin Nabin…
Image Credit: https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2015/07/24/the-black-rose-of-halfeti Hidden among the rolling hills of Halfeti in southeastern Turkey, a flower blooms that has puzzled botanists and enchanted travellers for more than a century. Locally known as the Karagül, or the Halfeti black rose, it appears almost jet-black as a bud before gradually transforming into a deep velvety crimson as it…
