Bengaluru: Following Friday’s Rs 6 hike in the per-litre price of LPG for automobiles, auto rickshwaw drivers in Bengaluru say their earnings have been significantly cut short. The new price of Rs 95.24 per litre led to filling stations across the city seeing a much lesser number of auto rickshwas on Saturday.Syed Moula, an auto…
Chennai: Students and working professionals staying in hostels and paying guest (PG) accommodation across the state may now have to pay more, as operators have increased rents by around 10%, citing a steep rise in commercial LPG cylinder prices and cooking costs.The Tamil Nadu IT hostel & PG owners welfare association has issued a circular…
Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Saturday claimed that the people of Telangana will not vote for the Congress again and that the grand old party’s return to power in state is unlikely for the next 20 years. He also criticised the BJP govt at the Centre on various issues. On the hike…
The move follows inspections of sector roads by GMDA CEO PC Meena Gurgaon: GMDA teams will soon conduct round-the-clock monitoring and upkeep of sector roads across the city. The move follows inspections of several sector roads by GMDA CEO PC Meena on Saturday, during which he reviewed the status of maintenance work, cleanliness and drainage…
Kolkata: At the Nandan screening of the restored ‘Pratidwandi’, organised by the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives to mark the legend’s 105th birth anniversary, a strand of conversation between Sandip Ray, Tinnu Anand and Dhritiman Chaterji centred on Ray’s remarkable way with non-actors. Anand, who assisted him on five films, including ‘Pratidwandi’,…
Noida: Noida power department has begun installing 250 new transformers across the district at an investment of Rs 25 crore, ahead of peak summer demand. The units, with capacities of 250 kVA and 400 kVA, will operate at a maximum load of 50% to prevent burnouts from overloading — a recurring problem during summer months…
Calangute: Shack operators have admitted that subletting of beach shacks to non-Goans has accelerated the decline in their business and quality standards. According to them, the locals have been subletting shacks to people from other states and are enjoying the high rents they get. The business starts to dwindle when the tourist season comes to…
Shimla: Leader of the opposition in the Himachal Pradesh assembly, Jai Ram Thakur, on Saturday criticised the state govt over reports that nearly 20% of trainee students at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Nursing Institute in Rampur-Khaneri, Shimla district, had been infected with tuberculosis (TB).Thakur termed the situation alarming and blamed the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu dispensation…
Guwahati: Reiterating concerns over the persistent occurrence of road accidents in Assam, chief secretary Ravi Kota has outlined priority measures to improve road safety, focusing on enforcement, infrastructure upgrades and emergency response systems.The directions followed a state-level road safety review meeting in which officials assessed accident rates across all 35 districts for the first quarter…
Modern Coach Factory has sent the trainset for trials Lucknow: The Modern Coach Factory (MCF) in Raebareli rolled out its first Vande Bharat trainset on Saturday, marking its entry into the group of manufacturing units producing these semi high speed trains.The 16-coach chair car rake has been dispatched to the Research Designs and Standards Organisation…
