Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court’s first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who can participate in the first phase of the Bengal polls on April 23.More than 27 lakh…
The speeding vehicle struck the three men as they stood behind the parked SUV Ghaziabad: Three persons, two of them of the same family and a bike taxi rider, were mowed down by a mini-bus on Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) near IPEM College on Friday.Among the deceased are Naveen Kumar (42) and his brother-in-law Deepak, who…
Vasco: The Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC), in a special meeting on Friday, decided to request the Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) to lease to the council a portion of its land at the Headland-Sada junction where the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has been illegally erected.The Bombay high court recently ordered the removal of the statue…
Ahmedabad: The city’s heritage is seeing a rare double revival. As the civic body restores Ellis Bridge into the new avatar of a pedestrian pathway, a few streets away in the Walled City, its maker’s home is being brought back to life after more than a century. Together, they resurrect a piece of the city’s…
Panchkula: Despite the traffic police issuing a large number of challans in Panchkula, recovery of fines remains abysmally low, raising concerns over the effectiveness of enforcement measures.Traffic police data shows that challans worth Rs 2.95 crore were issued in the first three months of this year alone, but only Rs 2.02 lakh has been deposited…
Pune: The Wakad police on Thursday arrested an engineering student (19) of a city-based private college for trying to blackmail a traffic constable and demanding Rs 50,000 on Tuesday during a routine check.Machhindra Baramate, the constable (Wakad traffic division), lodged a complaint. The Wakad police on Thursday arrested the accused from Sambhajinagar and registered a…
Jaisalmer: A fire broke out at a tubewell and engulfed three huts, near Chhod village in Jaisalmer district Friday.The blaze destroyed three huts belonging to nearby farmer Kishanaram. Approximately Rs 6.50 lakh in cash and 15-20 tola of gold belonging Kishanaram were gutted in fire. The fire brigade doused the fire after about one hour.Witnesses…
NEW DELHI: Even after nearly all Indian medical students returned from Iran following the outbreak of war, one 22-year-old youth from Kashmir chose to stay back, saying he could not leave the country “when it is in distress”. Now living alone in a nine-storey hostel in Ahvaz after the last remaining Indian students left, Asif…
Clavicular (Image Via Getty) Clavicular is once again in the spotlight, but this time the situation feels more serious than just online drama. After a suspected overdose earlier this week in Miami, his father, Ken Peters, flew in from New Jersey hoping to talk to his son face-to-face. The plan was simple. He wanted to…
MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement will cross 200 million tonnes of capacity after commissioning three grinding units totalling 8.7 million tonnes on Friday, cementing the Aditya Birla Group company’s position as the world’s largest cement producer outside China, with capacity nearly double that of the United States and exceeding the whole of the European Union. The milestone…
