road accident illustration Noida: A factory worker was allegedly crushed to death and his coworker was critically injured after a speeding truck rammed into their motorcycle from behind on Sector 67 Road on Wednesday.Police said the accident occurred around 8.30pm when Pyaruddin Mirza and Anil Kumar were returning home after work. They said the truck…
Margao: A woman from Cuncolim was cheated of Rs 2 lakh by cyber fraudsters who impersonated Delhi Police officers and Google Chrome representatives. The complainant, Supriya Dessai, a resident of Culwaddo, Cuncolim, told police that on April 22, unknown persons contacted her and falsely claimed to be officials of Delhi Police and representatives of Google…
Gorakhpur: The Yogi Adityanath govt is accelerating road infrastructure development in rural areas of Gorakhpur, with major widening and strengthening projects in the city’s southern belt nearing completion. The initiatives are expected to improve connectivity and ease transportation for lakhs of residents in areas that remained infrastructure-deficient for decades.According to the Public Works Department (PWD),…
Ahmedabad: After a brief, three-day flirtation with comparatively cooler weather, Ahmedabad has re-entered the furnace. The city’s maximum temperature climbed to 43.2°C, nearly two degrees above the seasonal average, on Thursday, effectively ending the short-lived respite. While parts of Gujarat recently enjoyed a dip in the mercury due to local weather shifts, the India meteorological…
Ludhiana: There is some relief for the city as Ludhiana recorded a slight drop in suicide cases in 2024 as compared to the previous year, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. However, illness — mainly mental illness or insanity — continued to be the leading cause of such deaths.The NCRB report…
Patiala: The MGNREGA Karmchari Union (Punjab) has issued a final ultimatum to the state govt, warning of a mass march to the rural development minister’s residence on May 13 if outstanding salaries are not released. Representing around 1,600 contractual employees—including gram sewaks, data entry operators, and JEs—the union has already begun a boycott of all…
Guwahati: Border Roads Organisation’s (BRO) Project VARTAK celebrated its 66th Raising Day with pride and dedication on May 7, 2026, reaffirming its commitment to strengthening border infrastructure and enhancing connectivity in the northeast.Originally raised as Project Tusker in 1960 and rechristened as Project VARTAK in 1963, it was the first BRO project to begin road…
Lucknow: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) has made activity points compulsory for BTech students from the current academic session, adding a new graduation requirement alongside semester examinations.Under the revised first-year BTech course structure, AKTU has adopted the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) rule requiring students to earn activity points through social,…
Times News NetworkJaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Thursday arrested former Congress cabinet minister Mahesh Joshi from his Jaipur residence in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) corruption case, alleging that manipulated tenders, forged certificates and cartelised bidding helped siphon off crores of rupees from projects meant to deliver drinking water across the state.The bureau…
NEW DELHI: As the left grapples with the severe setback it suffered in Kerala, the centralised leadership model described as ‘Brand Pinarayi’ and the poll campaign around it is under scrutiny, even as the party itself continues to hold there is no place within it for “cult politics” and the campaign was not a one-man…
