Gurgaon: Commuters faced a familiar festival-day problem — relatively empty roads, but sharply higher fares as the usual shuttle services remained unavailable.While traffic on several stretches was lighter than on regular working days, those travelling between Delhi and the city for work on Raksha Bandhan had limited public transport options and ended up relying on…
Kolkata: Delays in updating software and non-calibration of breathalysers have reportedly been throwing up questionable readings during the anti-drink driving checks at night, prompting police to clean, re-adjust and update software on 200 devices. Police said they were trying to ensure that each of the 20 traffic guards in the city had at least four…
NH-9 sees daily bottle necks near Dasna Ghaziabad: National Highways Authority of India plans to open new turns at two points along NH-9, at Dasna and near Manipal Hospital, to ease congestion where traffic from Delhi merges with cars heading to the city. Officials said the junctions will free up road space and cut traffic…
PANAJI: Two unidentified persons allegedly opened fire at Srinivas Nayak, director of Majestic Pride Group, which operates offshore and onshore casinos in Goa. The incident occurred around 8.45pm on Friday at Majestic Hotel in Porvorim, but Nayak was not injured.Police said the suspects were already waiting outside the hotel when Nayak left his office located…
Ahmedabad: Hitendra Brahmbhatt, 59, who is mentally unwell, had left his Vastrapur home 25 days ago and wandered the city streets as police and his family searched for him — but fittingly, he was reunited with his sister on Rakshabandhan.Brahmbhatt lives alone and does not use a mobile phone. He went missing on Aug 3…
Mohali: The municipal corporation (MC) Mohali has decided to introduce an integrated garbage cleaning and collection system to streamline sanitation operations and ensure timely disposal of waste generated during cleaning activities across the city.The move follows concerns raised by several councillors over the existing arrangement, under which different agencies handle separate sanitation-related tasks. At present,…
The students said these assurances are necessary before they can begin negotiations regarding their broader demands Pune: Students at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune continued their protest for the second day on Friday. The protesters have submitted three immediate demands to the administration, including a written assurance that no action…
Guwahati: Heavy rain lashed several parts of Guwahati on Friday, triggering a landslide in Sonapur area on the city’s outskirts. The landslide damaged a house and trapped a family of three inside, officials from Kamrup (Metropolitan) district administration said.The incident occurred in the morning in Moupur NC village, about 39 km from Guwahati. Officials said…
Jaisalmer: On a day when families across the country were celebrating Raksha Bandhan, a young Agniveer soldier, who had come home on leave, drowned in a water tank at his agricultural field in Barmer Friday.The incident occurred in Pareu village under the Gida police station area of Balotra district. The deceased, identified as Jogaram, had…
CJI Surya Kant said clean energy push unfair on developing nations NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant Friday told Commonwealth countries it was unfair that industrialised nations, who took two centuries to adopt clean energy, were asking nations in the process of industrialisation to move towards renewable energy within decades.Speaking at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London,…
