No one was injured in the incident Thane: A sedan was completely gutted after it suddenly caught fire near Kopri on Friday night. No injuries were reported but Majiwada -bound on the Eastern Express highway remained affected for nearly 45 minutes.According to officials, the incident occurred at around 8 pm when the driver and his…
Some firms opt to strike early deals, others are replacing only mission-critical systems Bengaluru: Large enterprises are redrawing their laptop procurement strategies as surging DRAM and NAND memory prices threaten to increase the cost of commercial PCs. This is prompting companies to strike a balance between buying early to lock in prices and delaying non-essential…
CHENNAI: The central govt has set Dec 2026 as the revised deadline for completing the ongoing modernisation of Chennai airport, attributing the delay to the Covid-19 pandemic, cyclones and unusually heavy rainfall.Union minister of state for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol said the Airports Authority of India (AAI) was carrying out the expansion and modernisation project…
People from districts are enquiring if they can apply for an LIG flat in cityHyderabad: Four days after inviting applications for Indiramma LIG flats to constructed in Greater Hyderabad and surrounding areas within the Core Urban Region Economy (CURE) area limits, the call centre of the Telangana housing board has been flooded with calls from…
Participants at the moot court Kolkata: Young legal minds, representing 84 teams from 58 schools from different parts of the country, gathered in Kolkata on Friday to participate in the fifth edition of National Inter-School Moot Court Competition.The competition offered students a platform to engage in simulated courtroom proceedings with the moot problem centred around…
Alvaro Robles partnered Syndrela Das for a flawless straight games win against Sathiyan and Maria Xiao Panaji: Whatever Alvaro Robles touched, it turned gold.A two-time Olympian and three-time Spanish singles champion, Alvaro has been the heartbeat of Dempo Goa Challengers in Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT). Nowhere was this more evident than at the Shyama Prasad…
Varanasi: The CBI arrested Nitesh Agarwal, senior divisional materials manager of the North Eastern Railway’s Varanasi division, while allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹1.70 lakh on Thursday evening.According to officials, Agarwal had allegedly demanded the bribe from a contractor supplying furniture to the railways in return for clearing bills and facilitating contract-related work. The contractor…
Ahmedabad: O K Krishnan, who spent more than two decades fighting for justice in his daughter Sajni Nair’s killing, died after brief illness in Ahmedabad on Friday. He was 89.A native of Pottor in Kerala’s Thrissur district, Krishnan lived in Ahmedabad for several decades. He was among the founding members of the Shree Narayana Cultural…
3 generations, 1 demand: A fair education system Chandigarh: The protest site at Sector 17 on Friday looked different from the image often associated with student movements. There were teenagers carrying placards, but there were also grandparents, parents and young children weaving through the crowd. Some had come because they had lived through examination controversies…
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Krishna Swaminathan visited the Artificial Limb Centre in Pune on Thursday Pune: Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Krishna Swaminathan lauded the Artificial Limb Centre’s (ALC) work in various indigenous assistive technologies and rehabilitation medicine for injured armed force personnel, veterans and civilians.During his maiden visit to the rehabilitation…
