Mumbai: City crime branch officials on Sunday arrested a gold ornaments manufacturer from West Bengal in connection with an alleged cheating case involving over 2.8 kg of 24-carat gold worth nearly Rs 3.8 crore entrusted to him by multiple jewellery businessmen in Mumbai.The complainant, Bharat Jain, 45, a Santacruz-based gold trader, entrusted the manufacturer, Abulhasan…
Bengaluru: Days after the state govt rolled out its ambitious plan to convert govt schools in 15 districts from the Nali Kali system to mono-grade bilingual classrooms, several govt schools across Karnataka are struggling with an embarrassing reality: No benches or desks and, in some cases, not even enough classrooms.The transition, effective June 1, was…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has cleared the way for a full hearing on a challenge mounted by former Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) secretary R Devraj against his disqualification, ruling that his writ petition is maintainable and can be examined on merits.Justice Renuka Yara directed that the matter be listed for further hearing on June 22….
Kolkata: Now the Purple Line, too, has gathered steam. The railway ministry has issued land acquisition notices for the Purple Line’s extension to Diamond Park, via IIM-Calcutta.A gazette notification to acquire land for Phase 1 of Kolkata Metro’s Joka-Diamond Park corridor via IIM-Calcutta — as part of the Purple Line’s extension beyond Joka by another…
Chandigarh: Safe and sustainable disposal of menstrual waste remains a major challenge in rural Punjab despite the widespread use of sanitary pads, according to a study that highlights significant gaps in menstrual waste management infrastructure and awareness.Proper menstrual waste management is essential for protecting public health, ensuring occupational safety for sanitation workers and mitigating environmental…
Imphal: Manipur BJP president A Sharda Devi on Monday filed her nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha election before the returning officer at the Manipur assembly secretariat in the presence of chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, BJP legislators, senior party leaders, and members of allied parties.Sharda Devi filed three sets of nomination papers, each…
Photo credit: UP government Three years after the Uttar Pradesh government announced investment proposals worth Rs 40 lakh crore at the Global Investors Summit (GIS) 2023, the focus is shifting from signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to projects that have begun taking shape on the ground.State officials say investments in sectors ranging from defence manufacturing…
A former wrestler, Rajasthan Police’s Devanshi Sharma left her 15-year-old-son home to train and focus on the inaugural world meet in Ahmedabad When Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed International Yoga Day at the United Nations in 2014, it sparked a movement that introduced millions to yoga. For Rajasthan’s Devanshi Sharma, however, that announcement came as…
Opposition leaders at INDIA bloc meet NEW DELHI: Leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc are meeting at the Constitution Club in the national capital — their first formal gathering since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.The meeting is being held against the backdrop of recent assembly polls in four states and the Union territory of Puducherry….
AI’s Every time you use ChatGPT to write a 100-word email, roughly 519 millilitres of water is consumed, nearly the volume of a standard water bottle. That figure comes from a peer-reviewed 2025 paper published in Communications of the ACM by Pengfei Li, Shaolei Ren, and colleagues at the University of California, Riverside. It accounts…
