When you sign up for a concert by a music maestro, you often sign up for the long wait too: hours of anticipation, a late start, tired feet and a weary journey home. But on Saturday night, Bengaluru was in for a pleasant surprise.AR Rahman returned to the city after eight years, and Laughing water…
Two-time AIADMK MLA from Kattumannarkoil N Murugumaran joined TVK Chennai: Two-time AIADMK MLA from Kattumannarkoil N Murugumaran joined TVK on Sunday. In a letter to AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, Murugumaran said that he was quitting primary membership of AIADMK “with pain” because the party was “drifting away from its path”.Within hours of sending…
Owaisi alleges jail ‘setting’, ‘bail for Rs 2 cr’; prisons dept denies Hyderabad: Asaduddin Owaisi, Hyderabad’s member of Parliament, sparked a controversy on Saturday after he accused the Chanchalguda prison superintendent of facilitating illegal activities inside the jail.Speaking at a public meeting in Old City’s Golconda area, Owaisi alleged that a person could secure bail…
Gurgaon district extracts around 1,185 MLD of groundwater a year against an annual extractable resource of about 557 MLD, putting the stage of groundwater extraction at 212.77%, the submissions said. Gurgaon: City’s water requirement is likely to rise by around 52% in the next five years, from about 770 million litres a day (MLD) now…
Waterlogged stretch along EM Bypass on Sunday Kolkata: Ahead of the Monday deadline, a senior KMC official on Saturday said about 85% of the repairs on the arterial roads across the city have been completed.Earlier, CM Suvendu Adhikari had said the roads would have to be repaired before Mahalaya. But KMC administrator and commissioner Smita…
Noida: A premature son’s treatment costing over Rs 30 lakh, mounting debts and a divorce that required him to pay his former wife Rs 15 lakh are among the circumstances police are examining after software engineer Sambhav Jain (28) jumped to his death from the 41st-floor balcony of an Airbnb in Supernova on Saturday.Jain, who…
Margao: A portion of a shop selling meat and meat products in Gandhi Market, Margao, collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. A major tragedy was averted as no vendors were at the spot at the time.The collapsed section is located near the toilet block in the market.Hours later, a larger part of the same…
Varanasi: Police will attach assets worth Rs 28.90 lakh belonging to Sunil Kumar Singh, an alleged member of jailed mafia don Dhruv Singh alias Kuntu Singh’s gang, within the next couple of days.SSP Anil Kumar said DM Ravindra Kumar on Saturday ordered attachment of two vehicles belonging to Sunil under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and…
Getting operations back on track after power cuts is an expensive affair, say industry leaders Dahej is not just another industrial estate on Gujarat’s Golden Corridor—it is one of the key power centres of the state’s economy. Spread across a strategic stretch of the corridor and anchored by the country’s most developed Petroleum, Chemicals and…
Once a major staple covering 2.2 lakh hectares in 1968, groundnut cultivation in Punjab has collapsed by over 99% to just 1,600 hectares in 2023–24, yielding around 2.8 thousand tonnes with an average output of 7 quintals per acre. Once a major staple covering 2.2 lakh hectares in 1968, groundnut cultivation in Punjab has collapsed…
