IIT-Bombay’s board of governors has requested that Prof Suryanarayana Doolla go on leave due to scrutiny. MUMBAI: IIT-Bombay’s board of governors asked Prof Suryanarayana Doolla, facing scrutiny over the suicide of BTech student Sahil Wakode last Friday, to proceed on leave and set up a high-level 10-member committee to examine the circumstances that led to…
Bengaluru: Anekal police have arrested seven persons on charges of dealing in illegal country-made pistols and seized five pistols and 10 live bullets from them.The accused are Manoj alias Jackie, Pradeep Ramesh Mesharam, Rizwan Pasha, Shivaraj, Nanjappa, Venkataraju alias Raju, and Gopi alias Sunavara Gopi. Mesharam is from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh while the others…
CHENNAI: A VietJet Airlines flight from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Colombo in Sri Lanka with 143 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Chennai airport on Tuesday night after an engine of the A320 aircraft failed.Airport officials said after the crew reported an engine problem, the aircraft was diverted to Chennai….
RevisedHyderabad: In a big relief to BrahMos Aerospace director general Jaiteerth R Joshi, the Telangana high court on Tuesday set aside a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad, order that had suspended his appointment. The high court order has paved the way for him to continue at the helm of India’s flagship supersonic missile programme.Following extensive…
– Prudential Financial Inc has opened its PFI Innovation Centre India in Gurgaon, strengthening the city’s position as a hub for high-value global capability operations._________________Picture by TOI Prudential Financial says the centre has been created to accelerate transformation across its global businesses and “leverage India-based talent” – Prudential Financial Inc has opened its PFI Innovation…
Kolkata: More than a month after a fire at a Free School Street lodge, work to install fire safety measures are likely to start at a lawyer’s chamber in Florence Mansion, the building where nine people were killed in the blaze, over the weekend.To reopen, the law firm, located on the first floor, has to…
Ghaziabad: Yoga instructor Sanjeev Sinha is bracing for “tough days” of pollution ahead of winter. It was in Jan that a stretch in Patrakar Vihar’s Nyay Khand 1 was dug up. The work is still half done.“Since the construction work is still on, we will not take any risk. In Jan, when the pollution level…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Police have registered more than 18,000 cases during the first 20 days of a statewide drive against vehicles running without numberplates, using tampered plates, or displaying fancy and non-compliant registration numbers.The enforcement campaign, launched on Sept 1, will continue until Oct 14. Traffic police units across cities and districts have been directed to…
Bathinda: Four new stubble burning cases were reported in Punjab on Tuesday, bringing the total number of farm fire events to 24 in the eight days since monitoring began on Sept 15.Amritsar has emerged as the primary hotspot, accounting for a maximum of 13 incidents. Ferozepur recorded four cases, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran reported two…
An AI-generated illustration shows a distressed 66-year-old man after he was duped in a Char Dham Yatra booking scam Pune: A cybercrook posing as a tour operator duped a Ravet-based sweets shopowner (66) of Rs 4 lakh by promising a Char Dham Yatra between July and Aug.The shopowner filed a complaint with Ravet police on…
