Bengaluru: Bowing to mounting pressure from citizen groups, resident welfare associations, walkers and opposition parties, chief minister DK Shivakumar Tuesday said the controversial Parks bill will be reintroduced during the Winter session of the legislature, likely in Nov-Dec, giving the opposition ample opportunity to debate it.The Karnataka Government Parks (Preservation) (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which allows…
CHENNAI: Weeks after returning from World U-20 Championships, Tamil Nadu’s Neil Samraj broke the youth national record twice in boys 100m at National Youth Athletics Championships in Ludhiana on Tuesday. The 17-year-old clocked 10.46 seconds in final to bag gold and solidified his position to qualify for the Youth Olympics in Dakar later this year.“I…
Hyderabad: Nearly 69% of Telangana’s registered GST taxpayers are based in Hyderabad, but the city accounted for 91.1% of the state’s GST collections in Aug. Hyderabad’s GST collections grew 20.53% year on year to ₹3,956 crore, while GST collections per registered taxpayer worked out to about ₹98,900, against ₹74,845 for Telangana as a whole.According to…
On Tuesday, eight relatives from four families travelled from Kolkata to Kathmandu to search for 32 tourists from Bengal who went missing last Wednesday while travelling with Chalo Jaai Travel Club Kolkata: A week after flash floods devastated parts of Nepal, families in Bengal whose relatives remain missing are caught between fading hope and the…
Four of the 16 stalled Supertech projects — Ecociti, Romano, Capetown and North Eye (in pic)—are in Noida Noida: National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has taken note of the slow progress in the construction of 16 stalled Supertech Limited projects and sought a status report from National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), the project management…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: Researchers from the remote sensing laboratory at Goa University’s school of earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences (SEOAS), led by professor Harilal Menon, have developed a mobile application to study how visible light decreases with depth and how underwater visibility changes in coastal and estuarine waters.The application, VEDA (visible-light extinction with depth analysis), was developed…
The flyer’s trolley bag had a concealed cavity containing the contraband Ahmedabad: Customs officials, aided by a narcotics sniffer dog pointing towards a suspicious package, seized 6kg of hydroponic ganja at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport recently. The female passenger carrying the package has been arrested.“Based on passenger profiling, x-ray scanning and signal from the…
Police personnel intervened to control the situation and prevent escalation after AAP demonstrators attempted to breach police barricades set up outside the BJP headquarters. Ludhiana: Tension prevailed outside the BJP office at Dana Mandi on Gill Road on Tuesday after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers staged a protest against three BJP MPs who…
The Attari-Wagah Border in Amritsar Bathinda: A Pakistani juvenile who had entered Indian territory in an illegal manner was repatriated to Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday after spending nearly two years at an observation home in Faridkot.The youth was caught in the Hussainiwala sector in Ferozepur district in the mid-2024, and a case…
An illustration of how the MCCIA helpline works Pune: An MSME helpline, operated by the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), has conducted 10,000 consultations from 5,197 micro, small and medium enterprises since its launch in 2024.The helpline received calls from all 36 districts across Maharashtra and 306 districts of the 29 states…
