Delhi-Doon eway suffers fresh damage as embankment near Gangnauli village in Baghpat caves in. Baghpat: Days after two alloy-wrecking potholes on the newly inaugurated Rs 12,000-crore Delhi-Dehradun Expressway left authorities red-faced, a fresh damage to an embankment of the busy highway near Gangnauli village in UP’s Baghpat has sparked another major row.A cavity developed near…
S Valli and her husband are one of several thousand homeless in Chennai, who live under bridges and flyovers; most are either street performers or guest workers Muskaan.Ahmed@timesofindia.comEvery few minutes, a train rattles past Velachery railway station as passing vehicles kick up clouds of dust into S Valli’s “home”. The 40-year-old lives under the flyover…
CHENNAI: AIADMK leader KBS Raja, a cousin of party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami, resigned from the party along with his supporters on Monday.Raja, who served as the deputy general secretary of the party’s MGR Manram, claimed he had worked for the AIADMK for 30 years but was denied an Assembly election ticket on two occasions….
Mumbai: Within two hours of forgetting his bag full of cash in an autorickshaw, a man got the money back thanks to the Dahisar police.On July 4, Borivli resident Pravin Javale was travelling in an auto from Dahisar to Andheri. He was carrying a bag containing Rs 10 lakh in cash. He forgot the bag…
Five idols stolen from TN temples recovered in Karaikal, two heldTNNPuducherry: The Karaikal town police have arrested two people and recovered five ancient idols from their possession that were stolen from temples in Tamil Nadu. Police seized their car used for transporting the stolen antiques and their mobile phones.Acting on a tip-off, a special police…
Foundation seeks CM’s nod for Baba Gouda statue, university renamingHubballi: The Raitashree Baba Gouda Patil Agriculture Foundation-Karnataka has urged the state government to fulfil several of its demands ahead of Farmers’ Martyrs’ Day. Speaking to reporters in Hubballi on Monday, foundation Dharwad district coordinator B.C. Patil said a statue of freedom fighter and farmers’ leader…
Mumbai: As of 6 am on July 6, the seven lakes that supply to Mumbai held 2,44,900 million litres of water, or 16.9% of their live storage capacity of 14,47,363 million litres — up 3.7% in 24 hours — as heavy rains continued to lash catchment areas on Monday.Despite the improvement, reservoir levels remain well…
Officials said the man and his wife used to make tattoos at local fairs and markets along the roadside. MEERUT: A 22-year-old man and his wife — both tattoo artists in UP’s Bulandshahr — have tested HIV positive, with health officials suspecting the infection may have been linked to unsafe tattooing practices, including tattoos they…
Bhubaneswar: Housing and urban development minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra on Monday reviewed drinking water supply arrangements ahead of Rath Yatra and the expected influx of lakhs of devotees to Puri and inspected the ongoing construction of the new 42 MLD water treatment plants in the city.The minister held a review meeting with senior officials to…
Funeral expenditure faces scrutiny amid economic woes The Islamic Republic’s funeral for Ali Khamenei has drawn criticism from a section of Iranians over attendance, the scale of state resources used for the ceremonies and what critics described as an attempt to project political strength. Much of the criticism focused on the contrast between the public…