Navi Mumbai: Belapur court rejected the bail application of Agricultural Produce Market Committee’s (APMC) deputy secretary Deepak Awate (40), and a sanitation officer Sameer Mhatre (55), after they were caught red-handed while allegedly accepting Rs 1.4 lakh bribe from a contractor on May 19. Both the accused have been remanded to 14 days of jail…
Chennai: DMK youth wing upped its offence against Congress for severing ties after election, calling it a betrayal. This is the second attack from DMK after its first attack in the DMK district secretaries meeting held recently. However, TNCC retaliated by condemning the usage of words such as “betrayal” and “backstabbing”.The DMK youth wing held…
Hyderabad: A 63-year-old advocate, Khaza Moizuddin, who had been fighting cases related to alleged encroachments on waqf properties, was allegedly run over by unidentified assailants in an SUV outside his residence in Shanti Nagar on Saturday morning. He sustained severe injuries and later died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Abids.Moizuddin’s son, Mohammed…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced four new medical colleges for Bengal, taking the state’s total to around 30. The new colleges will come up in Alipurduar, Kalimpong, South Dinajpur and West Burdwan. Bengal currently has 26 state-run medical colleges, five of them in Kolkata.Adhikari also said the proposed AIIMS for north Bengal would…
Panaji: A Ponda court has granted anticipatory bail to the TCP department’s deputy town planner, Tiswadi, Manguirish Verenkar, 59, in a cheating and forgery case.The case dates back to 2023. When he was posted as deputy town planner, Ponda, he allegedly issued NOCs in relation to execution of sale deeds by private parties before the…
Varanasi: Scorching heat coupled with strong surface winds continued to grip the holy city of Varanasi on Saturday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a heat wave warning and forecasting “strong surface winds during daytime” over the next few days.According to the IMD, the maximum temperature in the city was recorded at 44.7 degrees…
Ahmedabad: After PM Narendra Modi’s clarion call to not buy gold in wake of Middle East geo-political tensions, exchange of old gold for fresh jewellery has got a major impetus both from jewellers and customers. In such a scenario, tax experts have flagged that a standard gold jewellery exchange can trigger long-term capital gains tax…
Ludhiana: Riot police were deployed to a major national highway on Saturday after furious residents blocked traffic for two hours to protest against a prolonged municipal water and power failure that has left thousands without drinking water during a severe heatwave.The escalating gridlock in Punjab’s largest industrial hub underscores how crumbling civic infrastructure and a…
Aerial view of Chandigarh Chandigarh: In a firm bid to protect the industrial character of the city, the Chandigarh administration will not be permitting Business-to-Consumer (B2C) activities in Industrial Areas Phase I and Phase II under the proposed amendments to the Chandigarh Master Plan 2031.This is as per the recommendations of the Expert Committee under…
Pune: A majority of students are reluctant to enrol in four-year degree courses the state implemented under the National Education Policy (NEP) in 2023-24, indicate internal surveys of some autonomous colleges.Principals of autonomous colleges, where the four-year degree was introduced, said only 30% or fewer students showed interest in pursuing the fourth-year honours programme.According to…
