CHENNAI: A cinema theatre, which had neither elevators nor ramps, and made a person with a disability climb the staircase to watch actor Udhayanidhi's 'Nenjukku Neethi' movie, has been asked to pay ₹1 lakh as compensation to the aggrieved person.The Thiruvallur District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum passed the order based on a complaint from S Sureshkumar of Kundrathur. He complained that he went...
NEW DELHI: Close to one lakh Delhi University students will vote to choose their union on Friday after a three-year break that started because of the Covid-19 lockdown.The election is returning to the campus after 2019 with intense campaigns by students' organisations. As the university prepared for the election, on Thursday the varsity became a fortress with heavy security. DU officials held meetings...
MUMBAI: The state has confirmed 16 cases of scrub typhus, a bacterial disease spread by infected mite bites, in three districts: Aurangabad, Jalna, and Buldhana. With several states in India grappling with an outbreak of this disease, the Maharashtra public health department has alerted all districts to increase surveillance.Officials say most cases have been identified and treated at Dr Hedgewar...
Four people were killed and three others were injured after a speeding truck ploughed into a roadside dhaba in Dhaulana, Hapur, late Wednesday night. Police said the truck driver was drunk and arrested after the accident, which happened around 10pm. Of the four, the two deceased were daily wagers and natives of Bihar. They were having dinner after finishing their work when the accident happened. The...
NEW YORK: John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R R Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for "systematic theft on a mass scale", the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged "flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs'...
NEW DELHI: The AAP government in Delhi has constructed roads with a cumulative length of 3,500 km and laid 2,500-km-long sewer and water pipelines in unauthorised colonies, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday. Earlier those living in unauthorised colonies of Delhi were victims of politics and they were short-changed by politicians who made promises to them but did not do anything, Kejriwal...
WASHINGTON: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued to back down from the scorching crisis he has precipitated with India over the murder of a Khalistani extremist after being cornered over lack of evidence and international support for his allegations that New Delhi was behind the killing. At a press conference on Thursday, Trudeau was asked repeatedly if he had evidence, and its quality, to...
THANE: Immersion rituals during Ganeshotsav continued to remain a noisy affair in Thane with sound levels during visarjan processions hitting 100 decibels (dB), anti-noise activist Dr Mahesh Bedekar said on Thursday.Dr Bedekar, who measured the noise levels in various parts of the city, said though the number of processions was lesser this year, the use of amplifiers and speaker walls caused the maximum...
BHUBANESWAR: A few hours after Khandapada MLA Soumya Ranjan Patnaik was ousted from the BJD for his alleged involvement in a loan scam, the EOW of the Odisha crime branch on Thursday searched the office of the media group run by him.The EOW had conducted a search operation at Patnaik’s media organization in Rasulgarh area on September 18 as well. A cheating and forgery case was registered against...
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday announced compensation of Rs 560 crore to six lakh farmers affected by natural disasters like drought, flood, cyclone and unseasonal rains under the crop insurance scheme during last fiscal.The crop insurance scheme is implemented in 14 clusters comprising 37 districts by the identified insurance companies. “An area of 24.45 lakh acres was...
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