2023

MUMBAI: The city witnessed 'above normal' day temperatures on Sunday as maximum temperature recorded by the IMD's Santacruz observatory was 36.4 degrees. Day temperature recorded at IMD's Colaba observatory was 34.8 degrees. IMD, in its five-day forecast for the city, said that dry weather conditions are likely. Last week, the city recorded light rain activity owing to moisture incursion from the...

BENGALURU: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday expressed his disappointment at the defection of Congress leaders like Anil Antony, CR Kesavan and Kiran Kumar Reddy to BJP and wondered how they could cross over to the ‘dark side’.“I have always believed that politics is based on principles. While I believe each person has a right to change their mind and their party, there must be some principles....

MUMBAI: The state on Sunday recorded 788 fresh Covid cases - a 45% rise over the previous day. Hospitals in the state must prepare for a mock drill on Monday to check readiness to deal with a potential surge in cases. The Union health ministry directed the mock drill due to a steady rise in cases.On Sunday, active cases in the state reached nearly 4,600, while Mumbai reported an increase to 1,434 cases....

NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan reviewed the operational preparedness in the eastern sectorover the weekend, amid heightened tensions with China that has seen India shore up defences in the strategically-vulnerable Siliguri Corridor among other measures along the entire frontier.Gen Chauhan visited ‘forward areas’ in north Bengal and the Hasimara air base, where a squadron of...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has written to Amit Shah, opposing the non-inclusion of Tamil in the computer test for recruitment to the CRPF, saying the notification mandating only the use of English and Hindi was ‘discriminatory’ and ‘unilateral’. According to a state government release on Sunday, of the 9,212 vacancies in the CRPF, 579 had to be filled from Tamil Nadu, the exam for which...

PALGHAR: Two godowns were gutted in a fire in Vasai in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Sunday, a civic official said.No one was injured in the blaze, which broke out at Mourya Naka in Sativali at 1:30am and was doused at 5:30am, the Vasai Virar Municipal Fire Brigade official said. A probe into the cause of the fire is underway, he added.(With PTI inputs)!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t,...

KOLKATA: Members of the NGO--Fact Finding Committee on Human Rights Violations were stopped by the police on Sunday morning before they entered Howrah to speak to the victims. Six of the team members were supposed to meet the victims at Howrah where clashes over Ram Navami procession left many injured.The team was stopped near the Second Hooghly bridge on Sunday morning as cops requested them not to...

TRICHY: K N Nehru, the minister for municipal administration, urban and water supply on Sunday inspected the site identified for the Tidel Park proposed for Trichy at Rs 600 crores in Panjapur on Trichy-Madurai national highway. Stating that Trichy Corporation would earmark 10 acres of ready-to-use land for the proposal, the minister said Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) board was told to...

NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old MBA student, Ebabuddin, hailing from Bihar died allegedly by suicide at his rented accommodation in southeast Delhi's Gafoor Nagar area, police said on Sunday. Ebaduddin, a native of Sultanganj in Patna, allegedly hanged himself from the ceiling of his flat, the police said, adding his family has been informed. The incident came to light on Saturday when neighbours called the...

MUMBAI: A senior citizen from Girgaon in south Mumbai has been booked for indulging in animal cruelty. The accused, Chandrakant Ketkar (72), used to hit cats at his locality in Khadilkar Road with a stick embedded with sharp nails, thereby wounding the local area cats.Animal activist Sneha Visaria of Just Smile Charitable Trust told TOI: "We had got specific information that an old man armed with sharp...