Mumbai: Nearly 200 shop owners and small businessmen of Link Square Mall in Bandra West will stage a protest on Monday, 16 months after a devastating fire shut down their businesses, demanding answers from Zeeshan Siddique, former Bandra East MLA and now MLC from the NCP Ajit Pawar group, and the mall management on when…
Chief minister DK Shivakumar tries his hand at photography at an exhibition event in Bengaluru Bengaluru: The BJP-JD(S) opposition alliance appears determined to continue its boycott when the monsoon session of the legislature resumes Monday and insist on the resignation of planning and statistics minister B Nagendra.The decision comes amid differences within the alliance over…
Madurai: TVK minister R Nirmalkumar on Sunday sought to play down TNCC president Manickam Tagore’s remarks that some in TVK were still functioning with a “fan-club mindset”, saying the criticism was aimed at statements made by a few “individuals” and not at chief minister C Joseph Vijay.Tagore had made the remark while responding to TVK…
Hyderabad: A faculty member has moved the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) against Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), alleging that the university’s 10% cap on interdisciplinary faculty teaching emerging technology courses violates AICTE norms. The council has asked the university to examine and address the grievance.“AICTE rules permit qualified faculty members from…
Construction materials to be used in the ongoing repair of Vidyasagar Setu Kolkata: The Hastings Police has started a probe after the project manager of a French firm that has been currently entrusted with the repair work of Vidyasagar Setu lodged a theft complaint. He has alleged the theft of heavy steel structural components, valued…
Residents living near these facilities say the widespread absence of fire safety clearances highlights a serious regulatory gap Decades of inaction have allowed illegal scrapyards to proliferate across the state, where recurring fires expose glaring regulatory failures and mounting public risk Panaji: On June 24, another unauthorised scrapyard at Colvale went up in flames, with…
Ahmedabad: The growth of Harappan cities may have influenced not only where people lived and worked but also what they ate and how their food was prepared, according to a new study by an international team of researchers.The study analysed 22 human teeth recovered from archaeological sites at Juna Khatiya village in Gujarat’s Kutch district…
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann Chandigarh: Former additional deputy comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Onkar Nath questioned the Punjab govt’s claims of a “sikhya kranti” and its implementation on the ground. He urged chief minister Bhagwant Mann to ensure that children of ministers, MLAs, senior bureaucrats and other govt employees study in state-run schools.In an…
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday opposed demands by some groups to introduce reservation on economic grounds, saying such a move runs contrary to Constitution’s provisions for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) and is “in no way appropriate or in the interest of the nation.”In a…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah will attend the ‘national security strategies conference’ (NSSC) here on Monday and Tuesday, brainstorming with the Central and states’ security brass on the entire gamut of security challenges and fine-tuning strategies to overcome them.The ninth NSSC will be held in hybrid format, with over 850 officers from various security…
