Chandigarh: The Chandigarh administration is all set to approach the Supreme Court on the settled issue of the retirement age of govt teachers.In a major reversal of its own stand on the issue, the administration is actively considering challenging the increase in the superannuation age of govt teachers to 65 years.If the administration approaches the…
Pune: Nearly a year after the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) promised to clear encroachments on nullahs in the Bhosari MIDC area, the issue remains unresolved. With the monsoon approaching, civic chief Vijay Suryawanshi has issued fresh directives to tackle the chronic waterlogging problem.Reviewing the condition of drainage channels in the industrial belt on Monday,…
Surat: Residents of the 700 demolished homes of Pragya Nagar in City Light are facing a strange situation. The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) is demanding property tax for properties it demolished itself a year ago.Notices to vacate the buildings for redevelopment were served two years ago, after which residents began moving out. Despite the evacuation,…
Imphal: INDIA bloc in Manipur has questioned the silence of PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah over the recent killing of two children, including an infant, in a bomb attack in Manipur. They also accused the Centre of treating the people of Manipur as if they are not Indian citizens.A delegation of…
Sub-Inspector Siddhi Mishra Lucknow: Not by brute force, but patience, precision and quiet courage, an interstate gang that had turned the city’s e-rickshaws into mobile crime zones was busted. The breakthrough came with an undercover operation led by 27-year-old sub-inspector Siddhi Mishra, whose 14-day covert surveillance exposed the gang’s unusual but highly effective modus operandi.For…
Rajkot: The Surendranagar local crime branch (LCB) seized a large consignment of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 76.56 lakh from a truck near Sedla village in Bajana police station limits.According to police, 11,220 bottles of IMFL were found in a truck parked within the Sedla village limits. Together with the truck and other items,…
Jodhpur: The high court has upheld the denial of quota benefits to candidates from reserved categories hailing from other states in the NEET-PG counselling process for Rajasthan. The court ruled Monday that such benefits are constitutionally confined to state-specific categories.The single bench of Justice Sanjeet Purohit dismissed a writ petition filed by the Federation of…
NEW DELHI: A team comprising CBI officials and legal experts is learnt to have reached London in connection with the final formalities in the Nirav Modi case. Sources said the team had gone there for discussions with the counsels as the fugitive diamantaire has exhausted all his legal options in the UK.The move comes in…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: MAGA supremo Donald Trump’s theological skirmish with Pope Leo — spiritual head of more than a billion Catholics — has triggered a backlash from his own conservative base, with Republican leaders, Christian activists and late-night comedians converging, for once, on the same punchline.What might once have been dismissed as another burst…
Actor Yash, who is in the US, promoting his film ‘Ramayana‘, dropped fresh insights into his upcoming film ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups’. The actor, who will be seen playing the antagonist, Ravana in the Nitesh Tiwari epic, spilled the beans about his next ambitious and unconventional gangster movie that is slated to hit…
