KALYAN: Three persons died while five others suffered injuries in major explosion occurred at Century Company, located in the Shahad area of Thane District's Ulhasnagar on Saturday.The injured people were transported to Century Hospital. The blast occurred at around 11.30am within one of Century Company's manufacturing units.Following the incident, other staff members from the company's unit rushed the...
KOLKATA: The city has recorded 1,100 dengue cases in the past one week, taking the total numbers to 3,800 till the third week of September. Dengue surge in Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area, too, continues with another 373 fresh cases being reported last week, taking the total figures of dengue affected this year to 1,764 till the third week of September. The BMC areas recorded 300+ cases for...
CHENNAI: After overcoming legal hurdles to assert his leadership, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday urged Tamil Nadu legislative assembly speaker M Appavu to recognise R B Udhayakumar as the party's deputy leader of opposition in the house. EPS insisted that Udhayakumar be provided a seat next to him, replacing former chief minister O Panneerselvam, who was expelled from the...
NEW DELHI: Heavy rain lashed several parts of the national capital on Saturday afternoon. NCR cities too received heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds. The change in weather provided much-needed relief to the residents.According to the India Meteorological Department, Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius on Saturday, which was three notches above the season's average. Several...
Somit Sen, Editor-Transport, Energy at The Times of India, Mumbai. He covers stories on Power beat in Maharashtra and on Oil & Gas. He also covers RTO, transport ministry, Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, interstate transport (trucks/tempos) and the fleetcabs.Read More!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) {...
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's plans for a pre-World Cup team bonding trip to Dubai have been called off due to delays in obtaining their visas for travel to India on Friday, according to ESPNcricinfo.The 'Men in Green' had initially scheduled a trip to the UAE for next week, where they would spend a few days before proceeding to Hyderabad for their first warm-up match against New Zealand on September 29....
THANE: A special recovery officer of the co-operative department accused of corruption has been acquitted by the special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Thane as the prosecution failed to prove charges against him. Hauserao Ramchandra Gawade was given the benefit of doubt by the Special Judge (ACB) Amit M Shete.According to the prosecution's case, in 2009, the complainant on her return from London...
KOLKATA: Dengue continues to claim lives in Kolkata and Bidhannagar with two senior citizens being the latest victims of the vector-borne infection. The two - one from Salt Lake and the other from Baghajatin - died of the disease on Thursday night. Both were being treated in the same hospital off EM Bypass. While Kolkata has reported at least a dozen dengue deaths this year, this is the first death in...
CHENNAI: A sub-inspector of police, who had voluntarily retired from service recently, was arrested for sexually abusing a Class IX student at Royapuram. The retired SI, Jebakumar, 55, resides in an apartment complex in Royapuram. On Thursday, a 14-year-old girl living nearby informed her parents that Jebakumar had been sexually abusing her at a park in the neighbourhood.Acting on a complaint filed by...
NEW DELHI: CM Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said his government will soon ensure round-the-clock supply of water in every part of the capital.Addressing a public meeting in Bijwasan assembly constituency in southwest Delhi, Kejriwal said providing free water and electricity were the two basic promises he had made to the residents of Delhi and he had succeeded in that to a large extent."Delhi and Punjab...
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