A committee has been established by the Delhi govt to assess student accommodation safety following the collapse of a building in Satya Niketan NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has constituted a high-powered committee to examine student accommodation and safety in the capital and recommend time-bound measures, the Delhi high court was informed on Friday during…
Satish Jarkiholi, public works minister Mysuru: Months after signalling that he would be a contender for the chief minister’s post in the 2028 assembly elections, public works minister Satish Jarkiholi changed tack, backing DK Shivakumar to lead Congress into the next election and continue as CM.Jarkiholi Friday indicated he was in no hurry to stake…
COIMBATORE: Residents of Peelamedu have raised serious concerns over the sluggish pace of the Thaneerpandal railway overbridge construction, which began a year ago after prolonged delays. Residents have pointed out that while civil work has progressed along the northern end, activity at the southern gate remains stalled.Blaming the delay on the part of the contractor…
A 30-year-old woman identified as Deepa reportedly died by suicide by jumping from a building GURGAON: A 30-year-old woman died after reportedly jumping from the third floor of a residential society building in Sohna on Friday, with her family accusing her husband of harassment and physical assault, police said.The woman, identified as Deepa, had been…
Green Oasis In South Kolkata Kolkata: Residents and green activists in south Kolkata are making a fresh attempt to save the remaining green stretch of the Chetla forest tract after a significant portion of the urban forest along Alipore Avenue Extension West was cleared for development.The 3-km green belt between Durgapur Bridge and Majerhat Bridge…
Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia releases the party’s Sankalp Patra at Banga Bhavan on Friday Silchar: A master plan, a centralised Jal Board and measures to tackle waterlogging are among BJP’s key promises for the Oct 3 Silchar Municipal Corporation election.Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia released the party’s Sankalp Patra at Banga Bhavan on Friday…
AFSPA gives the armed forces deployed in areas declared as “disturbed”, powers to search, seize and arrest without a warrant, and to also use lethal force against law-breakers. NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Friday extended the application of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 in parts of Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland for a…
When former Seattle mayor and shipbuilding businessman Robert Moran was told by doctors in 1905 that he had only a few months to live because of a failing heart, he decided to spend his remaining time building a peaceful home on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest. That diagnosis turned out to be wrong. Moran…
After the bank failed to return their original property papers, the couple approached the Banking Ombudsman. (Image for representative purpose only) You take a home loan and you repay it in full, but the bank loses the property papers. What do you do and what are your rights?A Delhi-based couple faced precisely this situation. After…
‘One-time watch’: Anjali Anand’s mother gives brutally honest verdict of her daughter’s film ‘Dhamaal 4’; leaves Farah Khan in splits Anjali Anand, who featured in ‘Dhamaal 4’ alongside Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, and Arshad Warsi, recently revealed that her own mother wasn’t entirely won over by the film, dismissing it as a “one-time watch.” The…
