Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Friday announced starting of ‘practical Marathi training’ classes for non Marathi autorickshaw and taxi drivers in collaboration with Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh and Konkan Marathi Sahitya Parishad. Sarnaik warned of action against drivers who do not speak Marathi even after August 15. Industries minister Uday Samant has agreed to…
Kacharakanahalli lake in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Commuters travelling towards northeast Bengaluru via Lingarajapuram flyover will soon notice a transformed landscape as the long-neglected Kacharakanahalli lake is being redeveloped under a Rs 14-crore project.The initiative is being jointly executed by Bengaluru North City Corporation (BNCC) and minor irrigation department. Of the total project cost, Rs 4 crore…
The deceased, M Vijay, a mason from Thamaraikeni village near Sunambedu, was in a relationship with a married woman from the same village. CHENNAI: An extramarital affair ended in the murder of a 31-year-old man, whose leg was hacked off before he was gagged and force-fed pesticide by the woman’s relatives in a village in…
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy Hyderabad: The state cabinet meeting on Saturday will discuss the welfare schemes and projects to be launched and or announced on the occasion of Telangana State Formation Day on June 2, ways and means of resource mobilisation due to the impact of the war situation in West Asia on Telangana,…
Kolkata: The discussions regarding removal or relocation of the mosque situated deep in the operational area of Kolkata airport have been kept on hold till Eid-uz-Zuha. The issue figured prominently at the Airport Security Committee meeting on Friday, two days after the state administration and the mosque authorities met at the North 24 Parganas DM’s…
NRI, father booked for ₹7L FCI tender fraudLudhiana: City police have booked a Canada-based NRI and his father from Mohali for allegedly cheating a Ludhiana resident of ₹7 lakh on the pretext of securing a transportation tender with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in Jalalabad.The accused — Anmol Ratan Singh and his father Balkarn…
Chandigarh: A day after the arrest of Baljit Singh in an alleged espionage case linked to Pakistan-based handlers, Pathankot police on Friday arrested a shopkeeper for allegedly facilitating the installation of a CCTV camera used to monitor the movement of Army and paramilitary forces along the Pathankot-Jammu highway.Ankit Sharma, a resident of Firozpur Kalan village…
Agartala: Tripura has recorded its lowest-ever Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), according to the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin released by the Registrar General of India.The state’s IMR for 2024 fell to 12 deaths per 1,000 live births, well below the national average of 24.The 2024 figure improves on Tripura’s previous best of 15 in…
Accused in police custody Friday Jaipur: Brahmpuri police Friday arrested two alleged shooters who opened fire inside the bar of Hotel Mount View in Jaipur’s walled city.Police said the accused have been identified as Gautam Sain alias Gattu (19) and Raees (21).“Two assailants arrived at the hotel on a motorcycle around 10 pm Thursday and…
Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan NEW DELHI: For the first time, government has carried out a performance assessment of ministries on various administrative parameters, including delays in clearing of files, grievance redressal and responses to Cabinet proposals. Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan, on Thursday, presented the ranking of ministries and departments on each of these…
