2023

COIMBATORE: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths on Saturday morning started searches in 22 places in Coimbatore, three places in Chennai and four places in Hyderabad.The searches are being conducted in a case related to an ISIS module.Jamesha Mubeen, an ISIS follower who drove a car with an improvised explosive device, died in an explosion in front of the Kottai Sangameshwarar Temple in...

NOIDA: A construction lift taking nine workers to the upper floors of a residential tower on Friday morning crashed to the ground from the 14th floor, leaving four of them dead and five others on ventilator support.The lift collapse - among the worst construction site accidents in recent years - was reported at Amrapali Dream Valley Phase 2 in Techzone 4 around 8.30am when around 7,000 workers at the...

MUMBAI: At its first cabinet meeting in Marathwada to be held on Saturday, after a gap of seven years, the Maharashtra government is set to clear a package of over Rs 40,000 crore for the backward region. This will include an outlay for irrigation, public works, agriculture and medical education. The state faces both Lok Sabha and assembly polls next year.The cabinet meeting is being held at Chhatrapati...

KALYAN: A 70-year-old retired bank employee and a 58-yearold man died, while the latter’s wife suffered multiple injuries after a portion of a ground-plus three-storey ‘dilapidated and dangerous’ building collapsed in Dombivli on Friday evening even as civic officials were forcibly evicting the residents. Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) officials were evicting the 50-odd residents...

MUMBAI: Tata Sons, holding company of the $150-billion Tata Group, will have to be ready for a stock market listing by September 2025 with the RBI classifying it as an ‘upper-layer’ NBFC, which requires greater regulatory compliance.If Tata Sons gets listed, it will be a windfall for its shareholders, including Tata Trusts. At an estimated valuation of Rs 11 lakh crore for Tata Sons, a 5% offering...

THANE: The father of an dead eight-month-old baby boy managed to evade the security and fled from the Kalwa CSM Hospital facility with his body in Thane on Friday morning after doctors insisted on post-mortem report of the baby, the police said.The baby was brought in a semi-conscious state around 11pm on Thursday. The baby was initially admitted to a private hospital for respiratory ailments but the...

KOLKATA: A fire broke out in a building in Kolkata near Chandni Market on Friday evening. No one was injured in the incident.The fire was reported from Maddan Street inside an office. It was controlled around 8.30 pm, one and a half hours after the initial blaze broke out.4 fire tenders were finally pressed in to service. The fire did not spread beyond the top floor of the five storey building. Although...

CHENNAI: "Why don’t you join the BJP?" This is what the Enforcement Directorate (ED) asked the arrested Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, when the latter was under the central agency’s custody for five days in connection with a cash-for-jobs scam.Senior advocate Kapil Sibal told this to Chennai district principal sessions judge S Alli on Friday, when Senthil Balaji’s plea for release on bail...

NOIDA: With the arrest of eight suspects, the Noida Police on Friday said they have busted a key gang involved in the theft of cars in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). The police recovered 10 stolen vehicles, including Toyota Fortuners and Hyundai Cretas, which had been pilfered from various locations, including Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, and Gurugram.Authorities suspect that this gang has been...

THANE: A 43-year-old resident received minor burn injuries while trying to douse fire in his neighbourhood in the Poundpada chawl tenement in Kalwa east, Friday evening, officials informed.Yasin Tadvi, in-charge at the Thane Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) said a fire broke out following a gas leakage from the domestic gas cylinder nozzle in one of the tenement in the Shanti chawl around...