TIRUPATTUR: A 17-year-old minor girl driving her father’s car lost control of the vehicle after she stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and crashed into a motorcycle, causing the death of a 14-year-old pillion rider near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur district on Friday evening. Tirupattur superintendent of police Shyamala Devi said the minor girl…
Action comes following the town planning department’s five-day-long demolition drive in the city Gurgaon: Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) will begin a large-scale anti-encroachment drive across 44 sectors (residential and commercial) from Monday to clear the right-of-way or the total land width held for public infrastructure like roads and utilities. The operation will continue in…
Howrah: Before the second phase of voting, Sk Habib, a teacher and candidate from Humayun Kabir‘s ‘Aam Janata Unnayan Party’ in Uluberia South, joined the Trinamool Congress.Sheikh Habib said, “I joined Humayun’s party thinking he genuinely wanted to do something for Muslims. But you can’t understand everything from the outside. After becoming the candidate and…
Noida: A Dadri car repair workshop owner and three of his workers were allegedly dragged, punched and thrashed by a group of men for refusing to repair a snag in a car air-conditioning system on Friday night.Workshop owner Yusuf Khan told police that two men arrived at his shop to get their vehicle’s air-conditioning unit…
Dempo take on Shillong Lajong FC in Shillong on Sunday Panaji: Dempo Sports Club have shown they can fight back when their backs are against the wall. After a rocky start to their campaign, the five-time national champions did enough to qualify for the championship phase of the Indian Football League (IFL).Dempo will now start…
Shashank Nimkar’s venture recycles ceramic rejects Things end up in landfills for a reason — no one has figured out how to make money from them. Metals rarely reach a dump. They have resale value, so an entire economy exists to recover every last kilo. What gets left behind is the material with no price…
Chandigarh: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers on Saturday protested against Rajya Sabha MPs Harbhajan Singh, Ashok Mittal and Rajinder Gupta for quitting the party to join the BJP, spray-painting “gadar” (traitor) on the outer walls of their residences and burning their effigies. Protesters also raised slogans of “Punjab de gadar”.It was not yet clear whether…
Agartala: The district administration of Tripura’s Gomati has announced an immediate ban on the use of candles within the premises of Mata Tripureswari temple, one of the 51 Shaktipeeths, citing fire safety concerns.According to Gomati district magistrate & collector, the decision follows observations that a significant number of devotees have been lighting candles and agarbattis…
Jaipur: After orders for production curtailment, solar power developers in the state are now being denied permission to commission projects worth Rs 2,000 crore (500MW) due to policy ambiguities surrounding Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).Industry stakeholders said the state energy department’s rules for mandatory battery storage alongside solar plants are being interpreted negatively to hold…
BJP president Nitin Nabin (second, right) welcomes Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, others to BJP NEW DELHI: Despite the breakaway faction of AAP MPs claiming they have fortified themselves legally with two-third of the party’s members in the Upper House merging with BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday announced that they will be…
