MUMBAI: Marathi instruction in schools is set to come under stricter scrutiny, with state govt warning of penalties of up to Rs 1 lakh for institutions that fail to comply with teaching requirements for the language.A government resolution (GR) issued on Friday flags that “in many schools, especially private English-medium institutions, Marathi is not being…
BENGALURU: TCS CEO K Krithivasan on Friday said the company had constituted an oversight committee chaired by independent director Keki Mistry to review the investigation at its Nashik unit, which is under scrutiny over allegations of sexual harassment and religious coercion of employees.Krithivasan said while detailed reviews were ongoing, a preliminary examination of systems and…
Villupuram: PMK founder S Ramadoss, 86, cast his postal ballot from his farmhouse on Friday, assisted by polling officers and a videographer. He told reporters he was hurt that neither Anbumani nor his family visited him during his recent hospitalization, saying, “They are merely waiting for my end to take full control.” He added, “I…
Hyderabad: Taking a serious view of an advocate being subjected to a breathalyser test and allegedly harassing him when he visited the Panjagutta police station to inquire about the status of his complaint, the Telangana high court remarked such an act “is unknown to law”.Hearing a petition filed by advocate Singapogu Subba Rao, Justice EV…
MCG officials said they managed to bring about 90% of the smouldering under control before the rain set in Gurgaon: More than 50 hours of firefighting and, ultimately, rainfall on Friday evening fully extinguished the smouldering waste at the Bandhwari landfill site.However, MCG officials said they managed to bring about 90% of the smouldering under…
Kolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee‘s poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state’s biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool’s Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP “cowards and spineless” and ask why it is so scared. “Ballots, and not bullets, win polls,” she…
This AI image is used for illustration Ghaziabad: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped while she was sleeping next to her family at a construction site in Niti Khand-2 and raped. Police said they have retrieved CCTV footage where the child can be seen with the accused and are trying to identify him.According to the…
Panaji: Congress MLA Carlos Alvares Ferreira hit out at the Goa police for what he said was ‘illegal action’ in booking the individual who uploaded the video of customers being solicited for prostitution at Baga. Ferreira said the Uttar Pradesh resident was booked only to save govt from the embarrassment of how low Goa’s tourism…
Ahmedabad: A 32-year-old driver living in Sanand taluka has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Samrat Choudhary, a day before the latter was sworn in as Bihar’s chief minister.“Shekhar Yadav, a native of Banka district in Bihar, allegedly called Choudhary’s office in Munger last Tuesday and issued death threats over the phone,” said SP…
Chandigarh: An NRI has filed a complaint against Ribhav Rishi, a manager with IDFC First Bank who has been arrested in connection with a Rs 116-crore scam linked to the Chandigarh municipal corporation, accusing him of embezzling Rs 1 crore from her bank account.The complainant, Taranjit Kaur Bains (77), a resident of Greater London, United…
