Gangapriya Chakraverti, MD, Ford Business Solutions, with State industries minister Keerthana Sampath at the Coimbatore facility Chennai: Ford Business Solutions (FBS) India, Ford Motor’s global capability center, opened a new office in Coimbatore. Spread over 82,000 sqft, with seating for about 800 team members, it is the third location in the country, after its technology…
Education keeps 71% of Vijayawada men out of labour force Hyderabad: Vijayawada men appear to be choosing classrooms over workplaces, with the city recording the country’s second-highest share of men outside the labour force who cited studies as the reason for not working.The latest National Sample Survey Office’s (NSO) Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) estimates…
Gurgaon: Police on Wednesday exhumed the body of an infant, buried three months ago in Nuh, to investigate murder allegations made by the child’s paternal grandfather against the mother and her family.According to police, Akhtar, a resident of Jaitaka village, married his daughter Afsana to Sahil of Sokh village in 2023. Sahil died in a…
Naxal movement to current times Kolkata: The recent history of encounter deaths in Bengal stretches back almost six decades but several factors have made these episodes stand out from each other across the different regimes that have governed Bengal since the 1960s. During the Naxal movement, encounters became a prominent fixture in Bengal with many…
Ghaziabad: An FIR has been registered against four people for allegedly using a forged oath commissioner’s seal on a bail affidavit submitted before the court of an additional chief judicial magistrate. The accused, arrested in a 2023 copyright infringement case in Modinagar, had allegedly got the fake seal affixed through their pairokar(an agent or representative)…
Ponda: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday warned officials of the drinking water department of action if they failed to resolve the water supply issues in Bethora at the earliest.Sawant was hearing public grievances at a Janata Darbar held at an auditorium in Ponda, where residents raised issues related to drinking water, roads and healthcare.Residents…
Varanasi: Police in Mirzapur arrested two persons on Tuesday evening in the case of 31 passports that were recovered from a pond. The accused had collected passports of people seeking jobs abroad and confessed to dumping them in the pond. Mirzapur SP Aparna Rajat Kaushik said 31 passports were found wrapped in a bundle in…
The route will be closed to traffic on July 15 and July 16 Ahmedabad: City police have declared the entire route of the 149th Jagannath rath yatra as a no-parking zone for two days to ensure smooth movement of the procession and traffic. Police commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut issued the notification on Wednesday under the…
Bathinda: A delayed southwest monsoon in Punjab and Haryana could keep prices of key food items elevated in the coming months, Crisil Intelligence said on Wednesday, even as the cost of preparing a home-cooked meal rose further in June.In its monthly ‘Roti Rice Rate’ report, Crisil said the average cost of a vegetarian thali increased…
People enjoy the rain near Khadakwasla Dam in Pune. Photo by Aditya Waikul Pune: Between July 1 and July 8, Pune had the wettest start to the month in 57 years, with IMD’s Shivajinagar observatory recording 393.9mm of rainfall.IMD scientist SD Sanap said records dating back to 1969 show that the previous highest rainfall for…
