Ahmedabad: AMC has spent more than Rs 2,000 crore over the past five years on laying new stormwater and drainage lines and desilting the old ones, but the number of flood-prone spots in the city continues to rise.During the 2025 monsoon, AMC identified 147 flood-prone spots across Ahmedabad. Before this year’s monsoon, AMC claimed to…
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chandigarh zonal unit, had intercepted a Hyundai Verna near the Khuda Lahora bridge on Dec 18, 2018, as contraband was being smuggled across the Himachal Pradesh-Chandigarh border Chandigarh: A special NDPS court in Chandigarh has convicted three Himachal Pradesh residents in a 2018 inter-state drug trafficking case involving the seizure…
Pune: A 49-year-old assistant police sub-inspector posted at Uruli Kanchan police station died after an unidentified vehicle knocked him down while he was crossing the Pune-Solapur highway in Uruli Kanchan around 12.30am on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Ganesh Ratan Dabhade, a resident of Saswad in Purandar taluka. He was posted at Uruli Kanchan police…
Lucknow: After UP cabinet approval, the basic education department has issued a govt order on upgrading 14,429 primary schools across the state into ‘smart’ ones, making them well-equipped for quality education to children. The total cost of the project is Rs 300 crore.The GO, issued by special secretary, basic education, Awadesh Kumar Tiwari, states that…
PM Modi being presented a memento during ‘The Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics’, at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi Saturday NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Saturday questioned the narrative in which the responsibility for carbon emissions is pinned on developing countries while Western countries are absolved of their role as historical polluters, even as…
Aaron Rowe defends Ed Sheeran; says focus should be on Robert Kraft; admits singer’s response. Aaron Rowe has come out in support of Ed Sheeran amid the controversy surrounding Macklemore’s removal from the Loop Tour. The Irish singer-songwriter, who also left the tour, said he believes public attention has been directed toward the wrong person.Aaron…
India eye record medals at Asian Games 2026 NEW DELHI: Hoping to build on the historic campaign three years back at Hangzhou, India begins its campaign at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya with a 500-plus athlete contingent, aiming to better the 106-medal tally racked up at the last Games.While the build-up to the Games has…
Anya Vats (L), Victim Yuvraj Singh Manchanda (R) NEW DELHI: “Sell your wife/do anything, just repay this,” read a WhatsApp message cited in an FIR filed by a senior executive who allegedly lost over Rs 1.2 crore in a fraud racket involving Yuvraj Singh Manchanda’s former colleague Anya Vats and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva. Police…
Chennai: More than 25 passengers were injured after a TNSTC bus collided with a private bus near Vadakkupattu on the Sriperumbudur-Oragadam highway in Kancheepuram district on Saturday morning.Police said the TNSTC bus was taking more than 40 passengers from Chengalpet to Tiruvallur and was driven by Loganathan, of Chengalpet. Police said a private factory bus…
Done: arunHyderabad: Even as Telangana undertakes an ambitious re-survey of land records across more than 2,200 villages, a six-decade-old boundary dispute between two villages straddling Medchal Malkajgiri and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri districts remains unresolved, leaving ownership claims over nearly 600 acres of land worth an estimated ₹3,000 crore hanging in the balance.At the heart of the…
