Bhavish Aggarwal, Ola’s Co-Founder and CEO Bengaluru: Ola Electric is expanding its battery business beyond electric vehicles with a range of energy storage products for homes, businesses and utility-scale projects. The move is aimed at creating wider demand for cells produced at its Gigafactory as its core electric two-wheeler business works to rebuild volumes.The company…
Dr R Karthik Narayan, founder and MD, Athulya Assisted Living Athulya Assisted Living is positioning itself as more than an assisted-living operator, building a senior-care platform spanning assisted living, home care and geriatric hospitals. Founder and MD, Dr R Karthik Narayan, spoke about the company’s evolution, changing customer profile, capital requirements, the senior-care ecosystem and…
Hyderabad: The Great Indian Bustard (GIB), one of the world’s most threatened birds, has suitable habitat across just 48,000 sq km, or 6.6%, of the 7.2 lakh sq km Deccan landscape, according to a 2026 study that maps potential refuge places for the species and identifies 16 priority conservation areas.The study by Shaheer Khan, Gautam…
Gurgaon: The department of town and country planning (DTCP) will resume its demolition and sealing drive against unauthorised constructions and violations in DLF-3 from Monday.Ahead of the enforcement action, district town planner (enforcement) Amit Madholia on Sunday inspected V Block, Moulsari Avenue Road and adjoining areas and issued a final warning to property owners to…
Minister Agnimitra Paul at the Lansdowne Market on Sunday Kolkata: After inspecting Lansdowne Market on Sunday, state urban development and municipal affairs minister, Agnimitra Paul, urged the traders there to set aside politics and cooperate with the developer for the long-pending redevelopment of the market. The redevelopment project has been stalled for nearly four decades.“A…
Bicholim: Residents of Piligao have unanimously demanded that the village panchayat direct mining companies to immediately stop night-shift operations in Sarmanas, citing inconvenience and safety concerns. The demand was raised at the Piligao gram sabha held on Sunday under acting sarpanch Umakant Parab Gaonkar.Villagers also opposed the continuation of mining during the monsoon and strongly…
Police suspect he may have died of cardiac arrest Ahmedabad: Moments after allegedly setting a woman’s scooter on fire, a rickshaw driver collapsed mid-escape and died. Police suspect 33-year-old Nitin Chauhan suffered a cardiac arrest. The incident occurred around 4.30pm on Thursday outside the woman’s house in Rukshmani Vallabh Society near Kenyug Crossroads in Satellite….
Sonipat: A 14-year-old schoolboy died after allegedly coming into contact with a live electricity pole while playing near a drain in Haryana’s Sonipat district on Friday.The incident occurred when Ankit Kumar, a Class VII student, was playing with his friends near drain number 8 in Barota village, said his father Vinod Kumar, holding the power…
Uday Samant meeting Chakan industrialists Pune: Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde and state industries minister Uday Samant on Sunday held a nearly three-hour meeting with industrialists and other stakeholders to address infrastructure and other issues affecting the Chakan MIDC area.The meeting came days after several industrialists threatened to shift their units out of Chakan over…
Guwahati: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh’s Dibrugarh district unit distributed paddy seedlings to flood-affected farmers in Sivasagar district, helping them restart cultivation after the floods.According to a press statement, farmers from Jamira, Tengakhat and Khowang in Dibrugarh prepared around 1,100 bundles of paddy seedlings for Sivasagar.The seedlings were distributed on Sunday in Mechagarh, a remote area badly…
