Chennai: The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has instructed officials to complete sanitation, maintenance and safety measures in all corporation schools before they reopen on June 4.Corporation Commissioner G S Sameeran directed zonal officers and the school education department to ensure a safe, clean and learning-friendly environment for students returning after the summer vacation.Officials have been…
Panaji: The Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) has decided to rope in private players to set up an e-waste management plant in the state.Construction of the project had begun in Dec 2022 and was expected to be completed by May 2024. Due to the lack of progress and the project being economically unviable, the GWMC…
Ahmedabad: Between May 19 and May 30, the health department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) collected 290 food samples from food units across the city, of which six samples were deemed substandard.Additionally, 86 samples of pani puri were collected from various areas, and seven were found to contain prohibited food colour. The offending pani…
Industrial Area–Sector 31 flyover Deepak.Yadav@timesofindia.comChandigarh: Strongly recommending that Chandigarh remain an administrative city, for which it was originally planned, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday restrained the construction of the Industrial Area–Sector 31 flyover. The court said the Chandigarh Master Plan (CMP) 2031 stipulates that efforts should be made to retain the essence…
Pune: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday that five flight operations from Nagpur will be suspended in the coming days due to a shortage of aviation fuel.Speaking at an event on clean energy in Satara, Gadkari clarified that the suspension is not a result of low passenger demand. “Five…
Lucknow: Organs of a deceased donor received by five patients gave them a fresh chance at life at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences on May 29.Retired staff member of SGPGIMS, Fanish Mani Tripathi, was declared brain dead following a road accident. In the midst of personal loss, his family consented to donate his…
Magistrate’s court in Mumbai (File photo) MUMBAI: A magistrate’s court in the city has held that a man repeatedly stealing money from his daughter-inlaw’s purse to buy alcohol amounts to economic domestic violence. The observation came while directing a 40year-old Lalbaug man to pay Rs 21.5 lakh in rent and maintenance arrears to his estranged…
The dangers of AI eclipsed those of nuclear weapons at a defence forum discussion on strategic stability in Singapore, as panelists warned it could reduce reaction times to the point where people make rash decisions.Collapsing the so-called “OODA loop” – an acronym for observe, orient, decide and act – creates a sort of fog in…
The internet is convinced Taylor Swift has something to do with ‘Toy Story 5’, and the evidence keeps growing. Just days after the film’s makers attempted to calm speculation about a possible Swift connection, they posted an Instagram reel directly tying the singer to the fifth installment in the beloved franchise, sending fans into a…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has invited applications for multiple senior-level positions on a contractual basis, and the application deadline is ending today, May 31, 2026, at 5 PM.The recruitment drive has been announced for the posts of Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Finance Officer (CFO), and General Manager–Human Resources (GM-HR). Interested candidates who meet…
