Ashwini Bhide said strong winds over the past two days has caused extensive damage to the city’s green cover Mumbai: It would be a “sweeping statement” to attribute tree-fall incidents solely to concretisation, BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide said on Tuesday even as she announced that the civic body would engage expert institutions and arborists to…
Bengaluru: Less than a week after the rollout of SIR, hundreds of voters are anxious after they were unable to trace their or their family members’ details in the 2002 electoral rolls — the base document for this exercise.Although the Election Commission of India (ECI) has uploaded the 2002 rolls on its website to facilitate…
Chennai: Former AIADMK minister K C Veeramani and Arcot MLA S M Sukumar skipped the party’s review meeting chaired by general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday. The event was part of series of district wise functionaries’ meetings convened to analyse the party’s poor electoral show.Veeramani’s associates said that the former minister left for USA…
Leave the earlier sections blank and furnish their present details in the form, the DEO told voters Hyderabad: Amid confusion over filling enumeration forms as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Hyderabad district election officer (DEO) RV Karnan said voters need not panic if they are unable to find their details or those of…
The victim, Prasenjit Biswas Kolkata: A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death outside a private tuition centre in Baruipur on Monday evening while allegedly trying to stop a fight between two groups of classmates. Police have arrested five youths in connection with the murder.The cause of death was initially believed to have been caused due…
Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) lawyers and civil rights activists at a news conference in New Delhi on Tuesday Noida: Advocates representing workers and activists arrested over the April 13 violence during industrial labourers’ protest have flagged inconsistencies in the dates of arrest, locations and recoveries listed across chargesheets filed by police in the sessions…
Ludhiana: Municipal commissioner Ojasvi Alankar Tuesday carried out surprise inspections across several parts of Ludhiana, interacting directly with residents to assess civic issues and gather feedback aimed at improving service delivery at the ground level.The commissioner visited areas including RK Road, Sherpur village, Jamalpur Colony, Metro Road and Cheema Chowk, moving through internal localities to…
Jind: Haryana deputy speaker Krishan Lal Middha said Prime minister Narendra Modi will flag off Asia’s first hydrogen-powered train from Jind during his visit to the district on July 17.Middha said that during his visit, the Prime Minister will dedicate and lay the foundation stones for several major development projects across Haryana, covering the sectors…
Dibrugarh: Doomdooma Forest Division has launched a probe after a full-grown female Asian wild elephant was found dead in a paddy field near human habitation in Tinsukia district on Tuesday morning.The carcass was spotted at Balijan village under Dwarmara Reserve Forest after local residents alerted wildlife activists and forest officials. The elephant was found lying…
Lucknow: Several functionaries from the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) and Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar), along with their supporters, joined the Congress in New Delhi on Tuesday in the presence of UP Congress in charge Rajendra Pal Gautam.Among those who switched sides were NCP (SP) UP vice-president Balvinder Singh, NCP (AP) scheduled caste department…
