Train murder victim Mayank Lohar’s funeral was carried out on Friday Mumbai: Friends, relatives and neighbours gathered in large numbers at Virar on Friday to bid farewell to Mayank Lohar, the 21-year-old who was brutally murdered in a local train compartment by a co-traveller following an altercation on Tuesday night. Lohar’s parents and siblings were…
TOI report jolts authorities into action Bengaluru: Following the TOI report titled ‘Kanakapura Road – A Walk Through Neglect,’ published Friday highlighting the mounting garbage and poor waste management along the stretch, civic authorities have moved to tighten waste collection and crack down on roadside dumping in Yelachenahalli.Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) chief commissioner Maheshwar Rao…
Chennai: Tiruvallur police on Friday arrested the labour contractor accused of recruiting minor workers with forged identity documents for the seafood processing factory where an ammonia gas leak killed 14 workers earlier this week. A total of four people have been arrested in the case so far. The arrested man, identified as Suresh, recruited guest…
Hyderabad: The rare Southern Birdwing, one of India’s largest butterflies, has been recorded in the Kollapur Range of the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, marking its first documented sighting in Telangana.The Southern Birdwing is primarily found in the Western Ghats and has only occasionally been recorded in parts of the Eastern Ghats. Its documentation in the Amrabad…
Friday’s maximum temperature in the city settled at 40 degrees Celsius Gurgaon: After a hot and humid Friday, residents may get intermittent relief over the coming week. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty winds of 40-50 kmph at isolated places across Haryana on June 27 and 28, followed by…
Kolkata: Citing the Garden Reach and Taratala disasters, former KMC councillor of ward 48 Biswarup Dey quits Trinamool Congress, hours after attending the workers’ conference, organised for the North Kolkata party workers, under the banner “we are not traitors” on Thursday.Dey was among the eight councillors who were present at the Rammohun Hall and was…
Ghaziabad: On Wednesday, one family in Vaishali mourned a son they believed was dead. They performed his ‘tehrvi’, garlanded his photograph and tried to make peace with loss.By Thursday morning, that grief had turned into disbelief. Girdhar Bisht (40), missing for over a month and presumed murdered, stepped out of an autorickshaw and walked back…
Panaji: Considering the number of commercial establishments operating in the Anjuna and Vagator areas and the noise mapping data of the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), the Goa state pollution control board is likely to recommend to the department of environment to notify Anjuna-Caisua village panchayat as a commercial area under the provisions of noise…
Varanasi: Kotwali Nagar police arrested an accused of cattle smuggling after an encounter in Ballia district on Friday.During a checking drive on Shivrampur Ghat Road near the Greenfield Expressway, the police received information about the movement of a wanted accused of cow smuggling, Madan Mohan alias Dablu, 27.On seeing a suspect, the police signalled the…
Ahmedabad: City police and the crime branch have registered three cases under the NDPS Act after recovering ganja, mephedrone and charas in raids carried out in different parts of the city over the past two days.In the biggest seizure, the crime branch arrested an individual named Satish Mehta in Ranip and recovered 17.812kg of ganja…
