Mumbai: A 25-year-old Pune resident, Jaydeep Meghraj Nemade, died of a heart attack after he suddenly felt unwell while waiting in the long queue with friends at Lalbaugcha Raja Ganpati in Parel on Sept 17. Police said it was not a case of overcrowding, and the exact cause of his death will come out only…
Chennai: Two men were arrested for separate incidents of sexual assault on minor girls in the city on Saturday.In the first case, Lourdes Chakravarthy, of Nadveerapattu, who worked as a library officer at a private school in Kancheepuram district, was arrested after a student told her parents that he had sexually assaulted her on campus….
Hyderabad: Stating the Congress govt was blaming El Nino for shortage of irrigation water and power in Telangana, former minister T Harish Rao said it was not a drought caused by nature, but by the Congress govt’s failure.Speaking at a media conference at Telangana Bhavan, Harish Rao said irrigation minister Uttam Kumar Reddy had made…
Kolkata: The state urban development department has cleared the construction plan and project cost of the 5.9-km New Town-Metropolitan flyover and sent them to the finance department for its approval, a state govt official said.Sources said a project clearance committee, which operates under the finance department, will examine the plan and the department will provide…
Panaji: The captain of ports department is evaluating a proposal to undertake dredging and desilting work at the mouth of Cumbharjua canal at Dhauji and Cortalim. The proposal, which is still at a nascent stage, would require funding from the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), said captain of ports Octavio Rodrigues.The request to deepen…
Varanasi: An FIR was registered at Shivpur police station against seven people, including a junior engineer of the Varanasi Development Authority, following allegations of extortion, assault, house trespass, vandalism and caste-based abuse.The case was filed on Saturday on the order of the Special Judge (SC/ST) court. Those named in the FIR include VDA junior engineer…
Ahmedabad: A total of 75,992 candidates will appear for the Teacher Aptitude Test (Secondary)–2026 main exam organised by State Examination Board on Sunday. The descriptive exam will be conducted at 403 centres across Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara.The candidates had qualified through the preliminary exam held on May 3, for which 2,10,580…
The case was registered on the complaint of Roshan Tara, a resident of Maloya Chandigarh: The UT police cracked a late-night snatching incident within two hours on Friday, arresting two Mohali residents and recovering all stolen belongings along with the vehicle used in the crime.The arrested accused have been identified as Manish and Ashish, both…
Pune: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has finally appointed a contractor to build two escape ramps on the accident-prone 7km Katraj tunnel-Navale Bridge stretch of Mumbai-Bengaluru Highway. The move comes as another accident on Saturday left a truck cleaner dead and six others injured in a five-truck pile-up on Bhumkar Bridge.According to NHAI officials,…
Lucknow: The Centre has debarred more than 15 lakh marginal and small farmers in Uttar Pradesh from availing benefits under the PM Kisan Samman Scheme following a lack of authentication of their identities at the time of registration. Under the scheme, farmers get an annual grant of Rs 6,000.According to officials in the state agriculture…
