NEW DELHI: Two cousins, aged 20 and 14, returning home on a bike from Monday night’s IPL match, became the city’s latest hit-and-run victims after being crushed to death by a truck in central Delhi’s Ashoka Road.The victims were identified as BSc student Yagya Bhatia and Abhav, residents of Ashok Nagar in west Delhi. Police…
Mumbai: In a glaring slip-up, many MCom students from Mumbai University’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) were marked “absent” for semester 1 exams they had appeared for in Feb, triggering confusion and protests on campus.The anomaly surfaced on Monday when results were declared. By Tuesday morning, a steady stream of students reached the…
Bengaluru: A day after videos showing separate incidents of two pre-teens riding gearless scooters in and around Magadi Road went viral on social media, traffic police Tuesday booked the owner of one of the vehicles and the father of the other minor.First, police booked Afzar Pasha, an electric motor mechanic in JJ Nagar, for handing…
Chennai: A worker from Odisha died after inhaling suspected toxic fumes while cleaning a sump water tank at an ethanol unit in Tiruvallur district on Monday night. Four others have been hospitalised.Police said the deceased, Dananth Jaya Malik, 24, was employed at a private company in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate at Thervoy Kandigai near Gummidipoondi,…
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday laid the foundation for a $15 billion Google Artificial Intelligence data centre hub near Visakhapatnam and said it will be a growth engine for India.The facility — Google Cloud India AI Hub — is set to become Google’s largest infrastructure project in the country and…
Locals said the issue of stray cattle is a daily threat to them All three had to be rushed to a nearby hospital where the younger child received stitches for a deep head injury Locals said the issue of stray cattle is a daily threat to them All three had to be rushed to a…
Kolkata: Nearly 55 nuns in the Missionaries of Charity (MC), an order formed by Saint Teresa of Calcutta and headquartered in Kolkata, have been included in the supplementary list published on Tuesday after the tribunal cleared their cases. The MC had written to the Election Commission (EC) after many names and the nuns had moved…
Colva: Deposits of tar balls have begun appearing along the Salcete coastline well ahead of the monsoon season, raising fresh concerns about marine pollution and coastal health.While such occurrences are typically reported in late May or June, this year the phenomenon has surfaced earlier than expected. The highest concentration of the oily residues has been…
CM Yogi Adityanath along with BJP president Nitin Nabin offers prayers at Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi on Tuesday Varanasi: On his maiden visit to the city as BJP national president, Nitin Nabin on Tuesday offered prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple along with chief minister Yogi Adityanath and party’s state chief Pankaj Chaudhary.The leaders…
Ahmedabad: The ruling BJP yet again underlined its supremacy over Gujarat’s political landscape on Tuesday as it swept the local body polls, winning all 15 municipal corporations and 78 of the 84 municipalities, reiterating its complete dominance in cities and towns. The saffron party also posted a spectacular performance in villages, winning 33 of the…
