KOLKATA: In a bid to stop visual pollution at Gariahat arising from use of plastic sheet or cloths to cover the rear side of hawker stalls, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to install aesthetically designed metal-framed view-cutters.The KMC advertisement department has floated an e-tender for installation of such view-cutters to cover the street-facing rear ends of stalls between...
CHENNAI: The Kancheepuram police on Tuesday arrested YouTuber and motorcycle racer TTF Vasan, who was injured after his bike stunt on the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway went wrong on Sunday.Earlier on Monday the Baluchetty Chatiram police registered a case under two sections including rash and negligent driving against Vasan. On Tuesday, cases under five more sections for performing bike stunts on...
NEW DELHI: The commissioning of the Yashobhoomi conference complex at Dwarka will take place in October. A Korean operator has been appointed on a revenue-sharing model to manage the exhibition halls and convention centre, said officials. The first phase of the project was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi last Sunday.Over 100 exhibitions and more than 100 conventions have been planned at Yashobhoomi in...
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: The state government has formed a 20-member team to assist the panel headed by retired Justice Sandeep Shinde to meet the demand of recognising Maratha community as Kunbi and grant them OBC certificates. The team includes officials of a deputy secretary and under-secretary rank. Deputy secretary (home) Vijay Powar, under secretary (finance) Rasik Khadse and under secretary...
NEW DELHI: Unanimity shown by political parties in support of the women's reservation bill, which was introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, is seen by BJP with optimism to add to its ticked list of long-time poll promises.BJP has been consistent in its support for the women's reservation bill. But the one introduced by the NDA government in Lok Sabha in 1998 lapsed with dissolution of the House. The...
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday introduced a Constitution amendment bill seeking to reserve one-third seats in Parliament and state legislatures for women, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi throwing his full weight behind the radical measure and raising the prospect for its passage in Parliament by September 22 when the special session comes to an end.Referring to the failure of several efforts...
NEW DELHI: The long journey of deliberations on women's reservation over the decades has been marked by the demand for a sub-quota for OBC women.The joint parliamentary committee report examining the 1996 women's reservation bill had recommended that quota be provided for OBC women once the Constitution was amended to allow for reservation for OBCs. It also recommended that reservation be extended to...
BENGALURU: As Isro burns the midnight oil on Earth, waiting to hear again from Chandrayaan-3 lander (Vikram) and rover (Pragyan), principal investigators of instruments on the two have begun sifting through data for new findings.Among many things the global scientific community is expected to learn from Vikram and Pragyan’s work before they went to sleep is new knowledge about the lunar soil, which...
GHAZIABAD (UP): Two boys who went to take bath in Hindon river in UP's Ghaziabad slipped into deep water and drowned, officials said.Their bodies were recovered by NDRF team on Tuesday evening. Kaloo (7 ) and Shivam (13) drowned in the river near the forest of Nand Gram police station area on Monday, they said.A third boy, one Bharat, who was standing nearby noticed the drowning duo and had raised the...
WASHINGTON: Having dropped a bombshell by alleging the Indian government was behind the assassination of a Khalistani extremist in Canada, the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Ottawa was not looking to escalate matters with India even as Washington cautiously backed his demand for an investigation into the killing. "We are not looking to provoke or escalate. We are simply laying...
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