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EPFO attaches restaurant for non-payment of dues - Times of India
LUDHIANA: The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Ludhiana, has attached a restaurant in Sarabha Nagar for non-payment of dues An official of the department said, “The restaurant owner owed close to Rs 15 lakh as contribution towards EPFO from 2014. But he failed to make the payment despite repeated reminders.
Serena Williams's behaviour a clear sign of bullying, says Somdev Devvarman - Times of India
BENGALURU: With titles perhaps comes entitlement, a certain expectation, courtesies rather than an adherence to the code of conduct. Serena Williams is a 23-time major winner. She made two Grand Slam finals, successive runs since her return to tennis in March, following a difficult pregnancy.A few nights ago, during the US Open final, the former No. 1 had a meltdown, stirred by a code violation after coach Patrick Mouratoglou signalled to her.
Students of architecture make 80 idols from e-waste in Pune - Times of India
PUNE: The first year students of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha’s Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture (BNCA) for Women, made 80 best out of waste Ganesh idols which are now on display at the college.The idols were made up of materials including a broken computer power cable, discarded motherboards, defunct compact discs, discarded coconut shells among others.“We laid down a primary condition for the students that the idols should be made from waste and should be in the shape...
Bhavnagar IG ordered to submit action taken report - Times of India
Rajkot: A court in Amreli has directed Bhavnagar range inspector general (IG) to submit an action taken report after a police sub-inspector lodged a court complaint alleging that the district superintendent of police Nirlipt Rai and other cops had thrashed him in custody.Amreli PSI N J Gosai, who had circulated his own video making accusations against Rai last month, lodged a private complaint with Amreli chief court.
NU begins to disaffiliate 58 blacklisted colleges - Times of India
Nagpur: Nagpur University’s Board of Deans (BoD) led by pro vice-chancellor Pramod Yeole on Tuesday recommended disaffiliation of 58 colleges that failed to seek affiliation since academic year 2012-13.Yeole said, “Several reminders and notices were sent to these colleges but they failed to respond in the last seven or eight years or even apply for continuation of affiliation.” Pro-VC added that the 58 were among 98 colleges where admissions to first-year courses were stopped at the beginning...
Demand for priests high not only in city but also overseas for Ganesh fest - Times of India
THANE: For the last few days, C P Deekshit or guruji as he is fondly referred to as, is busy reorganising his itinerary by adjusting last minute requests from devotees who have invited him to perform the welcome ritual for Ganeshotsav on Thursday.Thane-based Deekshit is one of the hundred priests who is very much in demand, not just in Thane and Mumbai, but also across the globe as several families still prefer to follow the traditional way of invoking and inviting the deity into their homes.
DUSU polls on Wednesday, 23 candidates in fray - Times of India
NEW DELHI: As many as 1.35 lakh students will decide the fate of 23 candidates in the Delhi University Students' Union DUSU ) polls on Wednesday.While the National Students' Union of India ( NSUI ) has promised the "Institute of Eminence" tag for Delhi University and thalis for Rs 10, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ABVP ) has promised to spend 50 per cent of the union's budget on women and social justice-related activities along with a special attention to promoting sports and...
Technical glitch that robbed UP prisoners of precious weekly talktime allowed for speaking with kin - Times of India
AGRA: For several weeks in a row, Sandeep Kumar (name changed), currently serving in Agra district jail for last 14-years in ongoing trial of murder, often failed to talk with his wife and children, as the software glitch in jail’s PCO would start the stopwatch for 300 seconds and terminate the communication lines no matter even if his call wasn’t received by his family members.
Iran calls on Iraq to hand over Kurdish rebels
TEHRAN: Iran's armed forces chief of staff called on Tuesday for the authorities in Iraq and its Kurdish region to "expel" Iranian-Kurdish rebels on their territory, local media reported."These people are criminals.
SAI lashes out at NRAI, says rejected coaches don't qualify for appointments - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Sports Authority of India on Tuesday said five shooting coaches were rejected from a list of 29 submitted by the national shooting federation for not meeting the requisite criteria and termed the NRAI 's objection to its decision as "illogical".The SAI 's decision to dismiss the appointment of five shooting coaches irked the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) President Raninder Singh , who wrote a letter to the government body, stating the move was "insensitive" and an...
Kondagattu bus accident: 55 pilgrims killed in Telangana as TSRTC bus falls into gorge - Times of India ►
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the incident. HYDERABAD: At least 55 people died and several others were injured as a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus fell from a narrow road into a gorge at Kondagattu in Telangana's Jagtyal district on Tuesday morning. The exact toll, however, is not clear as rescue and relief operations are still on.Most of the victims were women and over 40 years of age.
UN says Myanmar waging 'campaign against journalists'
GENEVA: Myanmar , facing international outrage over the jailing of Reuters journalists for their reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims, is conducting a "political campaign" against independent journalism, the UN said on Tuesday.A fresh report from the UN rights office decried "the instrumentalisation of the law and of the courts by the government and military in what constitutes a political campaign against independent journalism".It slammed the "failure of the judiciary to uphold the...
‘In 2019, BJP could go up to 75 from previous 73, but won’t slip to 70’ - Times of India ►
In an exclusive interview with Times Now’s Navika Kumar, Yogi took a barrage of questions — from Deoria shelter home case to Unnao rape and from saffronisation of UP politics to Section 377.
Mohali: Deputy mayor smells rat in excess petrol use - Times of India
MOHALI: Unearthing a potential scam in the Mohali MC , deputy mayor Manjit Singh Sethi has found a high increase in petrol bills for bush cutting machines in the last couple of years even though the civic body has outsourced the job of cutting wild grass across the city.After exposing the irregularity, Sethi has sent a letter to mayor Kulwant Singh and MC commissioner Bhupinder Pal Singh seeking the reason and further course of action against the anomaly detected by him.Sethi said that he had...
Health ministry implements HIV AIDS Act 2017: All you need to know - Times of India
NEW DELHI: The HIV AIDS (prevention and control) Act 2017 was implementated September 10 onwards, announced the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday.Rajya Sabha passed the bill in March that criminalises discrimination against patients suffering Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a condition caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) , which attacks and weakens the body’s immune system.
500 hours lost a month as trains wait outside Central - Times of India
CHENNAI: For passengers travelling to Chennai Central railway station on long-distance trains, ‘so near and yet so far’ is a common feeling. The trains, having cruised along the paddy fields, lose steam at Basin Bridge junction.A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG ) has found that the delay due to such ‘detentions’ is 491 hours every month, as per an analysis in March 2017.
Driver rams car into French airport terminal before runway chase
LYON: French police arrested a man on Monday following a high-speed chase on the runway at Lyon airport after the driver rammed his car into the terminal and drove through the building.Police said they began pursuing the white Mercedes when it was spotted speeding the wrong way down a nearby highway.
Hinduism has taught world tolerance: Venkaiah Naidu - Times of India
NEW DELHI: Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu hailed Indian thought and philosophy for being "holistic, integrated and universal" and said Hinduism had taught the world tolerance and universal acceptance.Elaborating on various aspects of India's world view during his address at the three-day Second World Hindu Congress in Chicago, Naidu said Hinduism was more a way of life than a dogmatic religion.
UP: Minor girl sets self afire after being gang-raped by two men in Aligarh - Times of India
in Uttar Pradesh’s in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district after she was gang-raped by two men. Both accused have been arrested on the basis of the statement given by the victim to her family members while she was admitted in the hospital. and when she was out to relieve herself. She was gang-raped by the duo, who live in the same locality in Bahrampur village.
Sweden faces deadlock as far-right gains in vote
STOCKHOLM: Sweden faced political deadlock on Monday after the far-right made gains in legislative elections whose result makes it tough to form a functioning government.The prime minister is usually the leader of the party with the most votes, but Sweden's fragmented political landscape after Sunday's vote makes it impossible to predict who will build the next government, a process likely to take weeks.As expected, neither Social Democratic Prime Minister Stefan Lofven's centre-left bloc nor...
US policy drives Russia, China together ahead of summit
MOSCOW: When Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet this week, they will have plenty to talk about, thanks to US President Donald Trump Xi is travelling to Vladivostok, a Far East Russian city close to its borders, Tuesday and Wednesday for an economic conference where he is expected to meet Putin, while China joins vast Russian war games for the first time.Neither side has said what they'll discuss, but Trump's policies on trade and North Korea are topics of...
Taliban kill dozens in attacks across north Afghanistan: Officials
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Taliban fighters killed nearly 60 members of Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces in a spate of attacks across the country's north, officials said Monday, as diplomatic efforts to end the 17-year war intensify.Heavy fighting overnight in four provinces followed a wave of violence across the war-torn country in recent weeks that has left hundreds of civilians, police and soldiers dead.After seizing a military base in Sar-e-Pul, Taliban fighters were threatening the...
After Asiad success, Sarnobat now eyes Olympics - Times of India
MUMBAI: A rare feat recently achieved, Asian Games gold medal winning shooter Rahi Sarnobat has now trained her eyes on scripting another history -- a medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Sarnobat, 27, entered the record books when she became the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at the Asian Games. She achieved the feat by bagging the yellow metal in 25m air pistol event in Jakarta recently."An Olympic medal is the only thing which is left to achieve.
Deluge: 22,000 saplings washed away in district - Times of India
KOCHI: The recent flood washed away the efforts of social forestry wing of the forest department to create green spaces in Ernakulam district . The flood washed away around 22,000 saplings planted in the eastern parts of the district.“Most of the saplings were washed away at Perumbavoor when the flood hit the area. The saplings were planted in early June just before the monsoon . We must think before replanting saplings in the area.
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