New Delhi: Two firefighters suffered injuries while battling a blaze that broke out in a battery room at a Tata Communications office building in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash-I early Friday morning.Delhi Fire Services received a call regarding the fire at 2.47 am, and 11 fire tenders were deployed. During the firefighting efforts, two personnel sustained…
MADC serves as the nodal state agency and initial planner for the proposed Vadhavan Airport in Palghar. It is driving the initial phases to establish this greenfield project as the third major airport for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Mumbai: The state govt on Friday appointed former IAS officer Deepak Kapoor as vice chairman and…
Bengaluru: Two brothers died and two of their co-workers sustained injuries while cleaning a cooling tower basin at a chemical factory in Jigani Industrial Area, Bengaluru Urban district, Thursday night.The deceased have been identified as Lalu Singh, 38, and his elder brother Munna Singh, 40, residents of Vaddarapalya. Their co-workers, Bijay and Sumit, have been…
Chennai: Marking the fulfilment of chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s promise to the electorate immediately after assumption of office, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) closed 717 retail liquor shops located within 500m of educational institutions and religious worship places across the state.The exercise, however, had overshot the two-week deadline by nearly 10 days.Prohibition and…
Kolkata: East Midnapore zilla parishad president Uttam Barik resigned on Friday, coinciding with the arrest of a Trinamool zilla parishad office-bearer by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with election-related violence.Barik travelled to Midnapore and submitted his resignation to the office of the divisional commissioner. Having lost the recent assembly election, Barik cited the…
Pandya had earlier requested the HC administration to remove stray dogs from the campus for the safety of lawyers, litigants and court staff Ahmedabad: Former president of the Gujarat High Court Advocates Association and senior counsel Asim Pandya has once again appealed to the HC administration to free the court campus of stray dog menace,…
Mohali: Police have arrested three men involved in a string of robberies, seized 50 g heroin, and recovered a stolen vehicle from them. The arrests were made by a specialized team under an ongoing anti-crime campaign targeting active criminal syndicates in the region.The breakthrough came after investigators initially apprehended two suspects and recovered two gold…
Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s 51 teachers won a major legal battle after the Supreme Court upheld a Bombay high court order, directing the civic body to grant them the status of assistant teacher and pay salary arrears from June 2024 as per the Seventh Pay Commission scale.A bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice…
GUWAHATI: A “smart border” pilot project integrating technology, local administrative resources and security forces will be launched simultaneously at seven to eight locations across the country’s frontiers soon, Union home minister Amit Shah announced Friday, signalling the Centre’s intent to do whatever it takes to prevent demographic change through India’s borders.“Whether it is Tripura, Bengal…
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Lucknow: Chief minister’s whataboutery coupled with rampant BJP corruption has left the people of the state reeling under acute crises of basic needs, said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday.He said housewives were grappling with kitchen budgets because of rising prices of essential commodities and residents, the common man…
