Ask any Golgappa lover and they would not know its rich history. According to a legend, when Draupadi came home after getting married to the five Pandavas, her mother-in-law Kunti, assigned her a task. As the Pandavas were in exile at that time, they had to live their lives with less and scarce resources. Therefore, Kunti wanted to test them and see whether her new daughter-in-law would be able to live...
JAIPUR: Several trains, including Vande Bharat express trains were cleaned in just 14 minutes under the 'Swachhta Hi Seva campaign', on Sunday.The North Western Railway (NWR) started the ‘14 Minute Miracle Scheme’.Among the trains cleaned in just 14 minutes include Udaipur-Jaipur, Bilaspur - Nagpur, Secunderabad-Tirupati, Puri-Rourkela and Gandhinagar-Mumbai Central.For cleaning the Udaipur-Jaipur...
KALYAN: Union minister Kapil Patil on Sunday blamed 'bad contractors' for poor quality work, especially poor quality roads, in Thane district, the home turf of chief minister Eknath Shinde. Under the cleanliness campaign by the central government, various drives were organised by the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation at more than 50 places on Sunday. Patil participated in the campaign along with his...
KOLKATA: Number of cadaver organ donations in Bengal is set to rise from 15 in 2022 to at least 18 to 19 this year - an increment which is encouraging but could have been better, felt experts at a seminar on organ donation held at a city private hospital on Saturday. It stressed on the need for more brain death declarations to increase the number of deceased organ donations in which Bengal has fallen...
CHENNAI: Tambaram police arrested a man for cheating two people of 31 lakh under the pretext of getting them a job at Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). He was remanded to judicial custody on Saturday.Police identified the accused as Sathyendra Nair, 50. Nair befriended the complainant Rathna Kumar, 30, when he frequently visited Kumar's hotel in West Tambaram and claimed he was a contract worker with the...
GURGAON: Residents of new sectors are eagerly awaiting the completion of the much-delayed Dwarka Expressway, but the ride beyond it is unlikely to be smooth as the redevelopment plan of the Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) is yet to take off even after four years of planning.Once the expressway becomes operational, the traffic load on SPR is expected to increase further, as the 14km road will connect...
MUMBAI: Money laundering accused Sujit Patkar had used the reference of his friend and Shiv Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut to meet additional municipal commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal during the pandemic for Dahisar and Worli Covid jumbo hospital tender discussion, Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in its chargesheet filed in a special court recently. ED said Patkar had submitted a letter on the letterhead of...
NEW DELHI: Goods and services tax (GST) collections rose 10.2% to Rs 1,62,712 crore in September, driven by a 14% growth in domestic transactions. The finance ministry as well as tax experts expect the collections to get a boost during October and November as the festival season kicks in. Besides, tighter regulation and the inclusion of online gaming and casinos in the GST net are expected to help swell...
NEW DELHI: Two people were killed after a fight over talking to a girl in Delhi. Two men have been killed and one has been injured during a fight between two groups in the Bhalswa area of northwest Delhi over talking to a girl, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on the night of September 30, they said.On receiving information about the clash, police personnel reached the spot near Samta Vihar...
MUMBAI: During a surprise visit on Sunday to an SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) Colony in Kurla's Nehru Nagar in Mumbai, Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde took municipal officials and civic appointed cleaning contractors to task for not adhering to an earlier directive of cleaning public toilets five times a day.Shinde was almost on the verge of issuing directions for suspending an...
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