2023

In a move seen as a reiteration of its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, China has standardised the names of 11 places in the state, which it calls "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet". The development comes just a week after India held a G20 meeting in Arunachal that China chose to skip.The names were released on Sunday by China's ministry of civil affairs in Chinese, Tibetan and Pinyin. This is in...

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday left for Tokyo via Singapore on a week-long Japan tour, his third foreign tour in more than 23 years as CM, to attract foreign investment to Odisha.On his first day in Japan on Tuesday, Naveen is scheduled to meet Nippon Steel’s representative director and president Eiji Hashimoto. The meeting assumes significance because AMNS India, a joint venture...

TRICHY: The Trichy district administration has declared local holidays for the district on April 18 and 19 (Tuesday and Wednesday) in view of the Chithirai temple car festivals at Samayapuram Mariamman and Srirangam Ranganathaswamy temples. All state government offices shall remain closed, but examinations in schools and colleges that were already scheduled would be conducted as per the plan, the...

NEW DELHI: A Nigerian national was arrested in Delhi for duping a Gurgaon woman of Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of custom clearance after they met on a matrimonial site, police said on Monday.The accused, identified as Ignatus Ngosine, was arrested from Delhi on Sunday night, they said. According to the complainant, she started talking to the accused, who posed as a project manager working with a Turkish...

MUMBAI: Seven people were trapped in an elevator in the Bombay High Court building on Monday, a fire brigade official said. The fire brigade received an alert about people being trapped in one of the elevators in the high court premises around 4.30 pm, he said. However, staff from the lift maintenance company managed to rescue all the seven people within 15-20 minutes, the official said.(With PTI...

NEW YORK: A 47-year-old Indian-American data analyst was killed on the spot after being hit by a bus at Boston's international airport where he had gone to pick up a friend, according to a media report. Vishwachand Kolla, originally from Andhra Pradesh, was an employee of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. He was at the Logan International Airport, Boston, to pick up a visiting musician from the airport...

NEW DELHI: The provisional figures of direct tax collections for the financial year (FY) 2022-23 show that net collections exceeded the Union Budget estimates by Rs 2.41 lakh crore i.e. by 16.97%, according to a statement released by the finance ministry on Monday.The net collections for 2022-23 stand at Rs 16.61 lakh crore, compared to Rs 14.12 lakh crore in the preceding financial year -- representing...

Apr 03, 2023, 03:13PM ISTSource: ET NowThe Rs 865 crore initial public offering (IPO) of electronics manufacturing company Avalon Technologies opens for subscription on Monday and will run till April 6. The company has fixed a price band for the issue at Rs 412-436 per share and investors can bid for 34 shares in one lot and in multiples thereof.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { window.TimesApps =...

KOLKATA: One of the city's oldest single screen theatres, Intally Talkies, is permanently closing down. Tucked away on Dr Suresh Sarkar Road, the theatre used to draw a sizeable crowd for Hindi releases. However, footfall declined with time and the last nail on the coffin was the pandemic. The cinema never recovered from the Covid blow. Recently, its management informed the Eastern India Motion Pictures...

COIMBATORE: The Podanur police in Coimbatore city have registered an FIR against unidentified people for sending obscene text and voice messages to the customer care mobile numbers of the City Meter Auto Association.Three woman employees are working at the association’s customer care centre in Umar Nagar near Podanur. Some unidentified people were sending obscene text and voice messages to the...