Navi Mumbai: Around 100 villages and tribal hamlets in Panvel faced a nine-hour blackout between Thursday night and Friday morning as the power supply network of 22KV high-tension line at Nere was damaged during excavation work for laying a Mahanagar Gas Ltd pipeline along the Akurli-Sukapur stretch.Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd could not restore…
Chennai: Schools run by Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) recorded an uptick in Class XII board examination results this year, with the overall pass percentage rising to 92.26% from last year’s 88.12%. According to the corporation’s education department, a total of 5,179 students, including 2,257 boys and 2,922 girls, from 35 corporation higher secondary schools appeared…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday set a deadline of Dec 2027 for the completion of the Makthal-Narayanpet-Kodangal lift irrigation scheme, the industrial park at Lagacherla, the education hub and other major projects in Kodangal assembly constituency.Addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation stones for the development of the Sri Venkateshwara Swamy…
Ahmedabad: The city crime branch on Friday confirmed that the skeletal remains recovered from a Vatva property belong to Farzana Radhanpuri, signifying a major breakthrough in a murder case dating back to 1992.A senior crime branch officer said the DNA examination conducted on the remains returned a positive match with the samples from Farzana’s family….
Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday ordered Punjab govt not to take any coercive action against Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who recently defected from AAP to BJP, without its permission.Pathak had moved the HC seeking directions for Punjab govt to supply a copy of FIRs registered against him. The next hearing is…
Pune: Two men collectively lost Rs 53 lakh in separate online share trading frauds between June last year and May.Separate complaints have been registered with Kondhwa and Kalewadi police on Thursday.A Rahatani resident (58), who lodged a complaint with the Kalewadi police, stated that in Nov last year, the crooks contacted him and posed as…
Rajkot: A double murder-suicide rocked Sandhavaya village of Gondal taluka in Rajkot district on Friday, as a 37-year-old cement factory owner, Jaypal Togadia, allegedly strangled his two minor children before taking his own life on Friday.The tragedy unfolded at the Gayatri Cement factory on Ghoghavadar Road in Gondal on Friday. According to police, Jaypal Togadia…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of using central agencies for political purposes after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out fresh searches linked to Punjab Industries Minister Sanjeev Arora in a money laundering case involving alleged fake GST transactions worth more than Rs 100 crore.The ED conducted raids at…
Haile Selassie (Image: Wikipedia) There are quotes that have lived for decades, not just because they were poetic, but because they passed the test of time across generations. An example is the words of Haile Selassie, the former Emperor of Ethiopia, whose words on courage, humanity and unity continue to echo in discussions on leadership,…
Mumbai: Niva Bupa Health Insurance reported an 89.3% rise in Q4FY26 net profit under IFRS accounting standards, Rs 157.8 crore from Rs 83.4 crore a year earlier, while gross written premium grew 30.4% to Rs 3,123.4 crore.The improvement was aided by lower operating costs, higher investment income, stronger retail health premium growth and improving underwriting…
