New Delhi: Indian agencies on Wednesday secured the extradition of high-profile fugitive Prabhdeep Singh from Azerbaijan, marking a significant breakthrough for international law enforcement cooperation. Singh, the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, was escorted back to India by a special three-member team.The operation witnessed Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Delhi Police acting in…
Mumbai: Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Wednesday said the state govt was serious about illegal fare hikes by private passenger bus operators and the financial exploitation of passengers through unauthorised mobile apps. He issued directives at a meeting held at the Mantralaya to form a special committee to resolve complaints and suggest long-term measures.Sarnaik said…
Revenue could be redirected as incentives for employees opting for public transportBengaluru: In another attempt to tackle the chronic congestion choking the city’s Outer Ring Road (ORR), Bengaluru traffic police (BTP) proposed that tech parks explore introducing paid parking to discourage tech company employees from driving private vehicles to work.The proposal was mooted during a…
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt has appointed senior advocate Vijay Narayan as its advocate general. He will be representing the state govt in the Madras high court. He will succeed P S Raman, who resigned on Tuesday.Narayan previously served as advocate general of Tamil Nadu during the AIADMK regime from 2017-2021. He graduated from Loyola…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has dismissed an appeal filed by Operation Mobilization (OM) India Trust against an interim order that restrained the organisation from alienating its movable and immovable properties.A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin, dismissed the appeal on the grounds of maintainability, ruling that the matter fell…
Jaipur: A health screening camp held under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) in Bassi helped save the life of a nine-month-old child after doctors detected symptoms of congenital heart disease during examination.The child, Chitransh, son of farmer Hanuman Prasad Bairwa from Chatarpura village in Bassi block, was unwell since birth. During a health screening…
NEW DELHI: Market distortion due to some states giving bonus over minimum support price (MSP) for paddy and open ended procurement policy have led to accumulation of rice stocks much higher than the stocking norms, CACP has said in its report released on Wednesday.Govt fixes MSP for crops on the recommendations of the Commission for…
Pakistan has a strange gift: just when the world begins to take it a bit seriously, it produces an ‘oops’ moment so spectacular that the script writes itself. One week it is pitching itself as a serious mediator between the United States and Iran; the next, a US senator is publicly asking whether it has…
New Delhi: US firm Eli Lilly is deepening its specialty portfolio in India across cardio metabolic health, oncology, neurology and immunology, with the launch of its Alzheimer’s therapy. The company has strategic partnerships with domestic drugmakers Lupin and Cipla in diabetes and metabolic care, and also markets the blockbuster weight-loss therapy Mounjaro in India.The treatment,…
What could be a better way for an actor to prove his versatility than playing not one, not two, or ten, but twenty personalities in a single film? If you haven’t guessed it by now, allow us to help you out. He is Charles Xavier (Professor X) from ‘X-Men,’ Kevin Wendell Crumb, and several other…
