MUMBAI: Forty days of Lenten fasting and penance come to a close on Holy Saturday, setting the stage for Easter, the biggest festival of the Christian calendar. Easter marks the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave after his crucifixion on Good Friday.Festivities will begin after Easter Vigil mass Saturday night. The archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Cardinal Gracias will celebrate mass at Holy Name...
NEW DELHI: All-rounder Krunal Pandya shone with both ball and bat to guide hosts Lucknow Super Giants to a comprehensive five-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in a low-scoring match at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday.The win propelled the Lucknow side to the top of the Indian Premier League 2023 standings with four points from three games. They have the same points as defending...
KOLKATA: Metro Railway general manager P Uday Kumar Reddy inspected Sealdah to Salt Lake Sector V stretch of the East-West Metro Corridor (Green Line) on Friday and asked the staff to maintain the highest standard of cleanliness. Reddy reached Sealdah station on Friday morning and started the inspection from there. At Sealdah, he inspected entry-exit points, platforms, crew lobby, ticket vending...
NEW DELHI: Delhi on Friday recorded 733 fresh Covid cases, the highest in more than seven months, with a positivity rate of 19.93 per cent, according to data shared by the city government's health department.The health bulletin said two more Covid-positive people died in the city. However, "Covid finding was incidental", it added. The national capital had recorded 620 cases on August 26. On Thursday,...
MUMBAI: Light rains were reported in many parts of Mumbai on Friday morning. This was coupled with overcast skies as well. In western suburbs parts of Kandivali, Dahisar, Malad saw a light drizzle along with areas like Mira Road, however the rainfall wasn’t significant to show on the IMD observatories recordings which are updated every three hours. Officials at the IMD said that the unseasonal rains...
THANE: Amid concerns over pollution levels in Ulhas and Waldhuni rivers, industries from Badlapur MIDC have come together to mitigate the situation. The industrialists who treats effluents to CETP plant, before MIDC releasing into either Ulhas or Waldhuni rivers, have installed an additional new technology called DAF (Dissolved Air Floatation) in their CETP plant.Through this DAF technology, oils and...
KOLKATA: TMC panchayat-level leader Neelima Barman, her husband Bimal Barman (also an active member of TMC) and their daughter Runa Barman were hacked to death after being allegedly attacked by a sharp weapon by some miscreants at Sitalkuchi in the Cooch Behar district of West Bengal on Friday, ANI reported. The couple's other daughter Iti Barman is under treatment in the hospital."Three people have...
Handed over a Rs 150-crore bio-mining project tender on a platter, just a few days before the assembly election in 2021, one ‘communications’ firm and a ‘precisions’ company are unable to process the dump and have failed to come anywhere close to the target. This, in turn, has critically hit the Greater Chennai Corporation’s Rs 50 crore plans to have an eco-park in the cleared part of the...
NEW DELHI: Three men were arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly duping more than 100 people with the promise of high paying jobs in leading overseas firms in Turkey and Ethiopia, officials said on Friday. Police first arrested a 33-year-old Sohail Nijam and at his instance arrested his other associates - Afroj Alam, 32, and Parvej Alam, 42, they said. According to police, the three men wanted to...
NEW DELHI: Suyash Sharma became an overnight star with his dream IPL debut taking three crucial wickets in Kolkata Knight Riders' massive 81-run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday.KKR already have mystery spinners in Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine and with Suyash joining in the ranks, the trio formed a deadly combination to trouble the opposition batters.IPL 2023 Schedule | IPL 2023...
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