Chandigarh: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned the Mohali SSP on Sept 10, seeking details of the police investigation into the alleged cheating of farmers in the Suntec City project and action taken on fresh offences flagged by the central agency.The ED’s money-laundering probe stems from an FIR registered at Mullanpur police station on Nov…
A Pune-Mumbai e-Shivneri bus at Pune station Pune: Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC)’s own e-bus expansion remains sluggish despite state govt’s push for electric mobility, casting doubt on its target of adding 2,300 electric buses to its fleet by March next year.MSRTC’s e-bus fleet has grown by only 30 buses in recent months, rising…
PM Narendra Modi being felicitated at an event in Navsari on Tuesday Surat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for making cleanliness a habit and praised the people of Navsari for undertaking cleanliness drives across 400 villages over the past week, saying such efforts would bring a sense of pride and inspire others.Addressing a…
Guwahati: A century after a legend was born, Assam turned its tributes into plans to preserve his music, memories and cultural legacy.Marking Bharat Ratna awardee Bhupen Hazarika’s birth centenary on Tuesday, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said the concluding ceremony of the year-long celebrations will be held in New Delhi on Nov 29.Sarma said govt was…
A nine-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack in the Sujauli area of the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division in Bahraich district Lucknow: A nine-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack in the Sujauli area of the Katarniaghat wildlife division in Bahraich district on Monday night.The leopard reportedly attacked the child while he had gone…
Rajkot: Mahuva, one of India’s hubs for dehydrated onion and garlic, could potentially double capacity utilisation of its dehydration units if Maharashtra’s onion crop is supplied on a large scale. Industry operators recently put forward a proposal to a delegation from Maharashtra that visited the region to study the dehydration industry and explore ways to…
Jaipur: The deaths of two sisters within five days after a fever-related illness have triggered concern in Baran, prompting the health department to launch an investigation after routine tests failed to identify the disease.Twelve-year-old Ishika and her three-and-a-half-year-old sister Aditi, daughters of Dhanraj Suman, developed a fever that progressed to severe pneumonia and critically poor…
SRINAGAR: MF Husain’s horses meant power. Flat, bold, Cubist, built for scale like the Bollywood billboards he once painted in Mumbai. Masood Hussain’s horse is painted on Pashmina and dyed in the wool — carrying the earliest Kashmiri poetry, passed down orally for 600 years before anyone wrote it down.This is a sharp turn from…
A biological control project started half a century ago to destroy a stubborn invasive weed accidentally set off an ecological chain reaction that increased human exposure to a deadly virus. In 1973, wildlife officials and agricultural scientists in Montana released two species of European gall flies, Urophora affinis and Urophora quadrifasciata, to control the spread…
Filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia has revealed that Shah Rukh Khan was his first choice for the lead role in his upcoming film ‘Ghamasaan’, a part eventually played by Pratik Gandhi. Recalling how the superstar turned down the offer, Dhulia said Shah Rukh politely told him, “I don’t do realistic films like these.” Shah Rukh Khan turned…
