New Delhi: The names of nearly 48% of registered voters in southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad assembly constituency are missing from draft rolls — the highest rate of deletion among the city’s 70 seats.It is followed by Okhla at 45.3%, while the deletion rates in R K Puram and Kasturba Nagar are around 44.4% and 44%, respectively.The…
Mumbai: Ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Rapido operating in Maharashtra sought licences under the state’s new aggregator policy, with Monday marking the last day for submitting applications. Senior transport department officials said major operators, including Uber, have applied to continue operations under the new regulatory framework.Among the other applicants is Bharat Taxi, which has sought…
Bengaluru: The food safety and drug administration department conducted a special inspection drive on sweets manufacturing units across Karnataka Monday. It inspected 16 establishments, seizing food products worth around Rs 6 lakh over various violations.The drive was conducted on the directions of health and family welfare minister UT Khader in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Dakshina Kannada, Belagavi,…
Chennai: State govt will distribute single-spread (four-muzham) veshtis and zari saris through ration shops for Pongal 2027, instead of the double-fold veshtis distributed under the scheme for the past 12 years, handlooms minister Vijay Balaji told the assembly on Monday.Responding to a calling attention motion moved by DMK’s Austin and KMDK’s K Nithiyanandhan on the…
Hyderabad: In a freak road accident, an unidentified person died in a road accident after he was hit by two different cars at Khajaguda on Monday. Police said two more persons suffered injuries in the accident.At 4.15 am, a 35-year-old pedestrian was crossing the road at Khajaguda when an SUV hit him. The car was…
Gurgaon: A man died during treatment on Sunday, a day after being hit by a speeding car on Golf Course Road in Sector 54. The victim, Sundar, a resident of Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, was hit by a car at around 9.10am on Aug 29.According to a complaint lodged by Sundar’s brother-in-law, Ashok Kumar, at…
A woman mourns the loss of her son outside a cremation ground, in Chitwan, Nepal Kolkata: Six days after the devastating flash flood in Nepal, families of the 37 Bengal tourists still missing in the disaster zone are getting around to confronting questions they had until now been afraid to even articulate: What if their…
Sanctioned at a cost of Rs 48 crore, the four-lane overbridge was to be completed within two years Ghaziabad: A rail overbridge connecting Modinagar and Hapur Road, proposed to ease congestion at a busy railway crossing, remains incomplete two years after work began, affecting around one lakh residents and commuters in the area.The project was…
The nightclub after the fire Panaji: Supreme Court on Monday upheld Bombay high court’s order cancelling bail granted to Birch by Romeo Lane co-owners Gaurav Luthra, Saurabh Luthra, and Ajay Gupta in connection with last year’s Arpora nightclub fire that killed 25 people.“We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and order of…
The stranded shepherds and sheep Varanasi: Twelve shepherds and more than 2,000 sheep, stranded after a sudden rise in the Ganga’s water level turned an area near Duhia Saraiya village in Ghazipur into an island, were safely rescued after a nearly six-hour-long operation by the PAC flood company, police and local boatmen late on Sunday.The…
