Bengaluru: Hoodi railway halt, a key suburban station in east Bengaluru catering to short-distance Memu services, has been temporarily shut as part of the ongoing railway line quadrupling project between Whitefield and Cantonment.South Western Railway (SWR) discontinued all passenger services at the station from Monday, with both platforms set to be demolished to facilitate expansion…
Chennai: Considering Congress joined the TVK-led alliance after the state assembly elections, the alliance equations inside Greater Chennai Corporation council are set to see a sea-change. Congress, with 13 councillors, had been a part of the ruling front in the DMK-majority council, which enjoyed a total of 153 of 200 councillors.Alliance partners such as CPM,…
Hyderabad: In a sign of how financial investigations are going digital, Income Tax investigators of Hyderabad Benami Prohibition Unit (I-T BPU) used Google Maps timelines, IP address trails, mobile phone forensics and geospatial analysis to crack what they suspect was a benami liquor syndicate operating behind a Hyderabad wine shop.The breakthrough came when Google location…
To strengthen delivery care, all 24×7 health facilities have been directed to ensure the continuous physical presence of staff nurses at delivery points Gurgaon: Days after a 31-year-old woman delivered a baby in the park of a govt hospital in Faridabad after not receiving timely medical assistance, the health department announced a slew of emergency…
Kolkata: Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said that “detection and deletion” had already been done and state govt will soon start to “deport”, pointing at driving out alleged illegal immigrants from Bengal. He also said that state govt had started processes for census, which was delayed by the previous govt.“First we detected in the…
NOIDA: Eighteen months after her marriage, a 24-year-old woman died at her in-laws’ place in Greater Noida on Sunday, purportedly from a fall from the third-floor terrace that was reported to the police as suicide, but her family claims is murder.Deepika Nagar, her father Sanjay told police, was harassed and taunted relentlessly by the in-laws…
Panaji: A special court directed charges be framed under the NDPS Act against Sukdev Koli and Ravindar Bhil of Maharashtra after they were allegedly found in possession of 29.6kg ganja.According to the prosecution, they two men were caught with the drugs near the Duler petrol pump in Mapusa in June last year by crime branch…
Varanasi: In a swift operation, Chandauli cops have dismantled a gang of highway looters who had been targeting truck drivers by impersonating women along highways. Acting on intelligence inputs, four members of the gang were apprehended during an early Monday morning encounter, while one of the accused sustained a gunshot wound to the leg in…
Ahmedabad: As diesel supply shortage worsens and disrupts transport, port and industrial operations across Kutch, trade and industry bodies have warned of agitation if fuel availability does not improve by June 1.At a joint meeting at the Gandhidham Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday, representatives from transport associations, logistics operators, salt manufacturers, timber traders…
Chandigarh: Signs of unease within the Punjab Congress surfaced again on Monday, with Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring questioning the party’s decision to replace former chief minister Amarinder Singh with the party’s Dalit face Charanjit Singh Channi ahead of the 2022 Punjab assembly elections, saying the move did not yield the expected results.Speaking…
