New Delhi: Delhi is likely to receive light to moderate post-monsoon rainfall over the next two to three days, with India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a yellow alert for Saturday.The showers are expected due to a combination of weather systems despite the southwest monsoon having withdrawn from the capital earlier this week.Weather officials said rainfall…
Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar having lunch with Pourakarmikas (civic workers) during the Pourakarmika Day programme at Palace Grounds, in Bengaluru on Friday Bengaluru: Pourakarmikas requesting that their daily snack allowance be raised from Rs 35 to Rs 50 got an unexpected boost Friday, with chief minister DK Shivakumar announcing that it would instead be…
CHENNAI: TVK chief C Joseph Vijay on Friday appointed 15 deputy general secretaries, including 11 former AIADMK ministers and J Sundeep Anand, son of DMK MP Jagathrakshakan.Congratulating the new appointees, Vijay said they would work alongside the functionaries appointed earlier to carry out the party’s constructive activities in accordance with his directions and advice, and…
Hyderabad: Even in an El Nino year, Telangana is expected to remain a rice-surplus state, but the extent of that surplus will depend largely on water availability during the coming irrigation season.Flagging the risks, Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural University (PJTAU) has recommended a real-time rice-water dashboard to closely monitor reservoir levels, irrigation releases, and their…
Police said the girl’s father is a labourer Gurgaon: A six-month-old girl with a head injury was abandoned at Chukanni Mata temple in Vishwakarma Colony on Thursday night, police said.The girl is out of danger, police said.The infant was spotted by a woman who came to the temple with her son. She found the girl…
Kolkata: Child marriage is increasing in greater Kolkata, with 92 cases reported in the past two years. Police sources said poor surveillance by local police stations is one of the main reasons behind the rise.The highest number of cases has been reported from areas under Kolkata Police’s South-East and Bhangar divisions.Police commissioner Ajay Nand has…
Noida: Police have launched a probe after a woman allegedly uploaded a video on social media making unverified claims about Yamuna Expressway bus fire. In the caption, the woman claimed that workers of some political parties had set the bus on fire and claimed that at least 30 passengers, all from minority communities, had been…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Friday distanced himself and BJP from the deletion of voters’ names from Goa’s electoral rolls, saying the exercise was solely an Election Commission of India (ECI) matter and that the poll panel was an independent body.“Everyone was given an opportunity. The election commission has said that as per their…
Varanasi: Sonbhadra Police arrested two alleged members of an interstate ganja smuggling gang and recovered 625 kilograms of illegal cannabis worth approximately Rs 3.10 crore.The action was carried out by Shahganj Police and the SOG team under the direction of Superintendent of Police Sonbhadra Abhishek Verma, with supervision by Additional Superintendent of Police Operations Rishabh…
Ahmedabad: A daring attempt to loot an angadia firm in Narol was foiled after the owner confronted two armed men who allegedly barged into his office and pointed a country-made firearm at him on Thursday evening. The angadia owner managed to disarm the men, one of whom was 70 years old, and grabbed the accused’s…
