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Aug 26, 2024 10:53 AM IST
World News Live Updates: Vivek Ramaswamy hits the tennis court with Andre Agassi; shares his journey from ball boy to hitting partner
Aug 26, 2024 10:48 AM IST
World News Live Updates: Gunmen kill 22 in Pakistan after forcing them out of vehicles
Aug 26, 2024 10:43 AM IST
India News Live Updates: Renukaswamy murder case: Actor Darshan gets VIP treatment in jail? Visuals viral
- Actor Darshan, who has been implicated in the Renukaswamy murder case, was seen on a videocall from jail after being accused of VIP treatment
Aug 26, 2024 10:40 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Metro project, Dadumajra dumping ground issue raised at FOSWAC meet
- During the executive body meeting of the Federation of Sector Welfare Associations of Chandigarh (FOSWAC), Baljinder Singh Bittu highlighted the declining quality of public services in Chandigarh
Aug 26, 2024 10:40 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Growing sandalwood thefts a cause for concern in Pune
- In 2019, a tree census conducted by Pune Municipal Corporation recorded 40,324 sandalwood trees. However, this number has now dropped to 37,954, reflecting the severe impact of ongoing thefts
Aug 26, 2024 10:40 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: SP “most likely” to field Awadhesh Prasad’s son in Milkipur
- Milkipur is a reserved assembly constituency that Dalit leader Awadhesh Prasad vacated after winning the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in June. The seat will go to bypolls along with nine other U.P. assembly seats soon.
Aug 26, 2024 10:40 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Traffic police push for roundabouts, slip roads, lights with timers for Mohali’s Airport Road
- In 2022 alone, Mohali reported 486 road mishaps and 296 fatalities; out of these, a whopping 62% fatalities occurred on Airport Road and surrounding areas, including Sohana, Kharar, Zirakpur, Lalru, and Dera Bassi, as per data compiled by the police department
Aug 26, 2024 10:40 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Chandigarh: 4 held for assaulting cop at IT Park police station
- During a violent confrontation, four men assaulted constable Pawan Kumar, who is posted at Chandigarh’s IT Park police station, and tore his uniform
Aug 26, 2024 10:38 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: ATMS not synchronising traffic signals properly: PMC
- The PMC has noted that the ATMS does not synchronise traffic signals properly, particularly at night
Aug 26, 2024 10:37 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: DJB faces crunch in funds, sewer cleaning system hit
- In a letter written on Aug 12, Atishi said that the 189 contractors under this scheme are facing “critical condition” on account of non-payment of invoices of sewer cleaning machines deployed by DJB
Aug 26, 2024 10:37 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ghaziabad development authority set to give nod for transit-oriented zones
- GDA officials said the proposal is most likely to go through as neither of the objections received are grave in nature
Aug 26, 2024 10:36 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Monday musings: MPCB’s track record raises more questions than answers
- In theory, the MPCB’s mandate is clear: to prevent and control pollution, ensuring the protection of Maharashtra’s environment
Aug 26, 2024 10:34 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Nandu gang member held for three firings in 30 hours
- Police said the man, identified as Vishu Kranti, a resident of Kakrola village, is a member of the Nandu gang, which is led by UK-based gangster Kapil Sangwan. An automatic pistol was recovered from him
Aug 26, 2024 10:34 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Cops: Fugitive gangster linked to extortion calls in Delhi
- At least three businessmen in the city have received threatening calls and messages in the last 10 days purportedly from the gang’s namesake fugitive leader for paying extortion money
Aug 26, 2024 10:32 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Thank you for talking about NC manifesto, Omar Abdullah takes a dig at Amit Shah
- Former CM Omar Abdullah said it was “unfortunate” that Shah mentioned things that were not in the manifesto, urging the home minister to reread it
Aug 26, 2024 10:32 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Nominations for Haryana assembly polls to begin from September 5
- On the day of nomination, no more than five persons, including the candidate, will be allowed within the SDM’s office premises
Aug 26, 2024 10:31 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Affidavits in SC show LG visited tree felling site: AAP minister
- Even if it is believed that LG was unaware of the tree cutting regulations, action should be taken against the senior bureaucrats, said Saurabh Bharadwaj
Aug 26, 2024 10:31 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Chandigarh: Ramandeep takes top honours in U-14 triathlon
- In the girls’ U-20 100 m race, Punya (14:10) came first, Nishtha (15:41) and Vanshika (24:83) finished second and third, respectively; In the women’s U-18 5,000m race walk, Antima (30:54.58) stood first, Sarabjeet (33:08.55) came second and Kanishka (42:02.20) finished third
Aug 26, 2024 10:29 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: PUCSC elections: Parties turn to QR codes, Google forms to reach out to students
- Besides student wings of political parties, student parties are putting up QR codes in the departments and hostels of Panjab University, Chandigarh, to campaign for PUCSC elections
Aug 26, 2024 10:26 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ghaziabad: No signs of smothering in autopsy after woman’s body exhumed
- Police, however, arrested the woman’s husband on Sunday based on the statement of his five-year-old son
Aug 26, 2024 10:26 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Noida authority to launch plot scheme soon
- The authority will also cancel the allotment of plot owners whose plots are lying vacant for the past decade because they have not built anything on them within the deadline
Aug 26, 2024 10:24 AM IST
India News Live Updates: Ramping up contact tracing, availability of jab key to curb monkeypox: Dr Javier Guzman
- Dr Javier Guzman, director of Global Health Policy at the Center for Global Development, discusses the ongoing threat of monkeypox.
Aug 26, 2024 10:24 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Northeast Delhi flyover faces more delays, to miss October deadline
- The project, launched in February last year, is already running on a revised deadline. It was initially expected to be completed by July 31, which was later extended to October
Aug 26, 2024 10:23 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: MP Vasantrao Chavan, face of Congress’ resurgence in Maharashtra, dies at 70
- Chavan had been undergoing treatment at the hospital, where he was airlifted last week after his condition deteriorated. He passed away at 4 am
Aug 26, 2024 10:22 AM IST
Cities Live Updates: Poll manifesto should contain feasible promises: CEO
- In a statement the CEO urged all political parties to thoroughly study all aspects of the model code of conduct issued by the EC and ensure its compliance during the elections