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BJP pushes development agenda, opposition alleges sacrifice of local interests - Times of India
GUWAHATI: Curtains came down on campaigns for the second and final phase of the panchayat election in the state on Friday, with the fate of over 35,000 candidates to be decided in the last phase of the rural polls to be held across 10 districts of the state on Sunday.
Unrelenting HC seeks Marina clean-up plan from Chennai corporation - Times of India
CHENNAI: The Madras high court has given 10 days for the Chennai corporation commissioner to submit a comprehensive action plan to clean up the Marina beach , including the loop road. Persisting with its attempt to ensure that Marina Beach is cleaned, a division bench of Justice Vineet Kothari and Anitha Sumanth also directed the corporation commissioner to be present in the court on December 17 with the action plan.
Students petition statue of late CM Jayalalithaa, held - Times of India
Coimbatore: Police on Friday arrested two college students, members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students wing of BJP, after they staged a symbolic protest by submitting a petition to the statue of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Avinashi Road. ABVB had announced the protest to condemn the state government for allegedly not addressing their demands.
Witnesses safe in Delhi, at least on paper - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed state governments to provide round-the-clock police protection to witnesses facing threats, the capital had implemented the “Delhi witness protection scheme” in 2015 through an order issued by the lieutenant governor. This had been done in the wake of a 2013 Delhi high court judgment in State versus Manu Sharma that had seen serious threats being alleged against witnesses.
79-year-old woman gagged, robbed of gold ornaments - Times of India
T’puram: Balaramapuram police have initiated probe into a case in which two men robbed gold ornaments worth 10 sovereigns from an elderly woman after gagging her. The complainant is Ratnam (79), who lives at Vaanikar Street in Balaramapuram.Police said that the men broke into her house around 1.30am on Thursday, gagged her and tied her to the bed. They robbed the gold ornaments which she wore on her neck and ears.It was the neighbours who found Ratnam tied to the bed.
Child mapping survey riles government school teachers - Times of India
CHANDIGARH: Teachers of government schools are busy in the child mapping survey again this year, thus, leaving them irritated. Teachers said the duty should be given to someone else so that they could focus on students, who are left in schools all by themselves. With Exams nearing, most of the schools are yet to complete syllabus of senior classes. During a visit to schools on Monday and Tuesday, TOI found teachers handling multiple classes.
Delhi grapples with cold waves, toxic air - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The winters have finally started gripping the national capital. The temperature is likely to hover around 13-degree Celsius on Thursday morning. The minimum temperature may drop further by evening but any significant change in temperature is ruled out for the next few days. Track the pollution level in your city The weather experts believe that the day will be engulfed with shallow fog and mist will also be seen during the morning hours.
'Despite fears, Christmas will be a gala affair' - Times of India
RANCHI: With Christmas barely three weeks away, Ranchi archbishop Felix Toppo SJ on Wednesday said that despite ongoing investigations by government agencies into church finances and a general feeling of fear in the aftermath of the arrest of a nun and a female staff of the Missionaries of Charity home in Ranchi early this year, Christians throughout the state will celebrate the festival with usual fervour and gaiety.
Won’t be CM of Telangana: Chandrababu Naidu - Times of India
HYDERABAD: TDP president and AP CM Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday made it clear that leaders from Telangana would be ruling the state after the People’s Front comes to power. Even TPCC president Uttam Kumar Reddy asserted that leaders from the state will run the government and the power centre would remain in city.Naidu said, “I am not going to interfere in Telangana affairs nor will become the CM here.
Knitting units in Tirupur go on strike demanding wage hike - Times of India
Tirupur: Textile knitting units on Wednesday went on a two-day strike, demanding wage hike. They said many knitwear units were not ready to increase the wage, forcing them to go on strike, which is expected to affect Rs 100 crore business. There are about 700 knitting and 350 collar making units in the dollar city. They take up job works of converting yarns into fabrics from the knitwear units.
No need for RBI to help NBFCs as lender of last resort: Viral Acharya - Times of India
MUMBAI: Measures over the last two months have eased liquidity for NBFCs and there is no necessity for the RBI to extend help to the crisis-hit sector as a lender of last resort, deputy governor Viral Acharya said on Wednesday. The central bank is guided by the principle of addressing system-wide liquidity requirements, Acharya said, enlisting the measures undertaken since problems started with the non-banking finance companies (NBFCs).
Maruti Suzuki to increase vehicle prices from January
NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki India Wednesday said it will increase prices of its vehicles across various models from next month to offset adverse impact of increase in commodity prices and foreign exchange rates. The company, however, did not specify by how much the prices of its vehicles would increase. At present, the company is working out the range, a company official said.
‘Hospitals can’t force patients to get tests done, buy meds there’ - Times of India
NEW DELHI: If the draft Charter of Patients’ Rights put out by the health ministry is implemented, it would give patients the right to buy medicines from any registered pharmacy and get diagnostic tests from any accredited diagnostic lab instead of being forced by a hospital to use its in-house pharmacy or lab.The charter, including this and 17 other rights, has been put up on the ministry’s website seeking comments and suggestions from the public.
For women priests, it is more about right practices and less about dakshina - Times of India
Nagpur: In the courtyard at Ahilya Mandir in Dhantoli, around fifteen middle aged women are sitting in a circle and loudly chanting Durga Saptshati. The exercise is not part of any ritual. They are mastering the right pronunciations and also learning the meaning of each shloka.
CBI seeks details from Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and GSR in alleged data theft probe - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has recently written to the Facebook , British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research in its probe related to illegal personal data harvesting of Indians from the social networking platform.In the letters sent to the three companies, CBI has sought details of data collection exercise adopted by them.The agency had filed a preliminary enquiry last month to probe the alleged data theft after getting a reference...
Hyderabad school rape: Staffer held - Times of India
HYDERABAD: A five-year-old girl, who was raped at her school in Tolichowki by a school staff, recognised the perpetrator after he was produced before her by school authorities, deputy commissioner of police (West Zone) AR Srinivas has said.Addressing a press conference on Sunday, the DCP said the accused, Mohammed Jeelani, who has been working as supervisor of the school, was arrested and would be produced in court. Jeelani looks after children of primary section of the school. “He is unmarried.
Swapnil Bandodkar expresses his favourite Ganpati song - Times of India
The iconic Ganeshotsav in Maharashtra is celebrated with pomp and show and with the merriment comes different music.
Plan your investments to fund kid's education
Indian parents save to fund the education of their children. Increasing cost of higher education has compelled most of us to have judicious saving plans.gives an insight on saving for children's educationEvery parent aspires to give a quality education to their children, but what stops them is ever increasing cost of education. Over the years, the inflation rate of primary and secondary education increases has been12%, while for the higher education it has been between 16%-20%.
RRB Group D 2018 examination begins today for 62,907 posts
NEW DELHI: TheGroup D Level 1 examination 2018 has started today (Monday, September 17, 2018).The Railway Recruitment Board () is conducting the recruitment examination for 62,907Group D vacancies. The vacancies are for Gateman/Pointsman/Porter/Helper & few other posts in the Railway department across all regions.Theexaminations will be conducted from September 17 to October 16. The admit card for Group D exam of September 17 was released on September 13.
Sardar Singh on Sachin Tendulkar's guidance, critics and his future plans - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Like always, he tilted his head a little, put his arm around and said, " Hor Paaji theek ho (how are you)?". Those have been Sardar Singh's signature words accompanying a handshake over the last 12 years. On Saturday evening in Delhi, as Sardar ended his post-retirement press conference, off-the-mic conversations turned nostalgic. And Sardar, as always, was all smiles and courtesy.
States begin to fall in line with BCCI diktat - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The eight state associations that had sought clarification from the Board of Control for Cricket in India regarding amendments of their constitution in line with the board's bylaws, have begun have the process to implement the new constitution.
VHP questions PM Modi's visit to Bohra mosque - Times of India
LUCKNOW: Two days after PM Narendra Modi visited the Saifee mosque in Indore, Vishwa Hindu Parishad said on Sunday that political leaders should keep the interests of Hindus at forefront since the community formed the majority of Indian state.
Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: World economic forum
PARIS: Robots will handle 52 per cent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a world economic forum (WEF) study said on Monday.The sharp increase could also see a net gain in "new roles" for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the "seismic shift" in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated."By 2025 more than half of all current workplace tasks will be performed by machines as opposed to 29 per cent today," a statement by...
Empowering transgenders, one makeover at a time - Times of India
PANAJI: Looking at transforming the difficult lives of those from the transgender community, a fashion designer and hairstylist in Vasco is opening her salon to them.While she is willing to conduct short-term beautician, hairstyling and hair cutting courses to make them self-sufficient, Joemy Barnett who is also an image consultant first wants to work on their image.“In Bangkok one can’t differentiate between a transgender and a by-birth female.
BJP thinks Prashant Kishor will help NDA - Times of India
PATNA: The state BJP on Sunday said the entry of poll strategist Prashant Kishor (PK) into JD(U) would strengthen the NDA, but also maintained that PM Narendra Modi and the party’s national president Amit Shah would provide the main pull and gravitas to attract people during the 2019 parliamentary elections in the state.“His ability will be used to win all the 40 parliamentary seats,” former state BJP president and road construction department minister Nand Kishore Yadav said.
30% of Delhi-Mumbai NH unsafe for cars, finds study - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Nearly 30% of the Delhi-Mumbai and almost half of the Mumbai-Chennai stretches of the Golden Quadrilateral are unsafe for car, bus and truck occupants, according to a firstof-its-kind safety study on national highways by agencies that included the World Bank and the National Highways Authority of India.The study, which looked into the likelihood and severity of accidents, found that these NH stretches were even more unsafe for two wheelers, pedestrians and cyclists as there were...
Four trains to operate from Kochuveli - Times of India
Thiruvananthapuram: Four trains from Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station will be operated from Kochuveli railway station from Monday onwards.
BJP central observers reach Goa to take stock of situation, Congress keeps watch - Times of India
PANAJI: A three-member team of central observers of the ruling BJP arrived in Goa on Sunday afternoon to take stock of the political situation in view of chief minister Manohar Parrikar 's indisposition, even as the Congress said it is watching the developments.Parrikar, 62, has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi for treatment.Some media reports have suggested that the BJP is exploring alternatives for the chief minister's position in Goa till...
Self proclaimed royal descendant apologizes for Ayodhya Ram temple - Times of India
LUCKNOW: Self proclaimed descendant of King Bahadur Shah Zafar Yakub Habeebuddin Tucy on Sunday in a letter to Hindu Mahasabha sought apology from the entire Hindu community for what he called was the destruction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya in 1528 by the commander of his ancestors army.Tucy in his letter claimed that it was his ancestor Babar's commander Mir Baqi who had destroyed the Ayodhya situated Ram temple in the 16th century.
UP: BJP calls Mayawati a political tourist - Times of India
LUCKNOW: Hours after BSP chief Mayawati tore into BJP accusing it as corrupt, anti-poor, and anti-Dalit , the BJP shot back terming her a " political tourist " who could never keep relationship intact.UP BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey said that it were BJP workers who saved her when she was attacked by Samajwadi Party goons in the state guest house in 1995. "There have been a host of instances of Dalits being targeted by SP workers during previous Akhilesh Yadav regime.
Fire rages on at Kolkata's Bagree Market, two firemen sustain minor injuries - Times of India
KOLKATA: A massive fire erupted early Sunday at the multi-storey building, which houses nearly 1,000 business establishments, in the congested Bagree Market here.No loss of life has been reported but two fire fighters suffered minor injuries during the operation to douse the blaze, the fire department said.The market is around a kilometre away from the Writers' Building and the Reserve Bank of India office, a senior fire official said.Director general of West Bengal Fire and Emergency...
Crisis arose due to destruction of ecologically-sensitive zones in Western Ghats - Times of India
* A river decided to change its course on August 8 and snaked into human habitat at Kannappankundu in Puthuppady panchayat in Kozhikode* 200 people were shifted to relief camps in Thamarassery taluk after landslips occurred on August 9* At Pallivasal near Munnar, 22 foreigners were trapped at Palm Judy resort following a landslide on August 10* Landslides near Vythiri bus station and the Ninth hairpin curve on Thamarassery Ghat Road disrupted traffic on August 9A geographical analysis of...
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