Thane: The Thane municipal commissioner Saurabh Rao has ordered that the entire Ghodbunder Highway stretch and adjoining arterial roads be made hawker-free, mandating sustained daily drives against unauthorised vendors who are causing hindrance to free traffic movement on the stretches. Officials said enforcement will begin immediately, with a focus on Majiwada, Manpada and Vartak Nagar…
Bengaluru: With hundreds of mental-health apps offering limited information and leading up the users on a blind alley, key stakeholders have proposed a repository of apps that provides simple, descriptive summaries relevant to Indian users and support informed decision-making.Many apps have safety vulnerabilities and less than 10% of them have clear evidence backing their programmes….
Chennai: Brushing aside talk of anti-incumbency, Velachery MLA Aassan Maulaana, who is seeking a re-election, asserts there is no anger against him on the ground. In an interaction with TOI during his campaign, the Congress candidate said he was confident of winning by a comfortable margin.You received backlash for saying in 2023 that floodwater will…
Hyderabad: Despite an intensified crackdown by multiple agencies, piracy websites continue to flourish, drawing millions of views for newly released films across industries. A recent TOI investigation identified at least 27 active platforms hosting Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil blockbusters in high-definition (HD) formats—often within hours of release.Among the latest casualties is ‘Jana Nayagan’, starring Tamil…
Gurgaon: The body of a 48-year-old woman was found in a field near Mohala in Faridabad on Friday, two days after she went missing.She had left home on April 15 to pay an electricity bill but did not return. After the family’s search yielded no results, a missing person’s complaint was filed at Sector 58…
Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court’s first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who can participate in the first phase of the Bengal polls on April 23.More than 27 lakh…
The speeding vehicle struck the three men as they stood behind the parked SUV Ghaziabad: Three persons, two of them of the same family and a bike taxi rider, were mowed down by a mini-bus on Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) near IPEM College on Friday.Among the deceased are Naveen Kumar (42) and his brother-in-law Deepak, who…
Vasco: The Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC), in a special meeting on Friday, decided to request the Mormugao Port Authority (MPA) to lease to the council a portion of its land at the Headland-Sada junction where the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has been illegally erected.The Bombay high court recently ordered the removal of the statue…
Ahmedabad: The city’s heritage is seeing a rare double revival. As the civic body restores Ellis Bridge into the new avatar of a pedestrian pathway, a few streets away in the Walled City, its maker’s home is being brought back to life after more than a century. Together, they resurrect a piece of the city’s…
Panchkula: Despite the traffic police issuing a large number of challans in Panchkula, recovery of fines remains abysmally low, raising concerns over the effectiveness of enforcement measures.Traffic police data shows that challans worth Rs 2.95 crore were issued in the first three months of this year alone, but only Rs 2.02 lakh has been deposited…
