Monday, September 30, 2019
Hyd: Fraudster held for duping 3 of Rs 31 lakh
Habeebnagar police on Saturday arrested a fraudster who duped three people of Rs 31 lakh by promising to secure them government jobs. The ac...
AP: TTD goofs up on trust board member
The AP government and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) found itself in an embarrassing spot after officials goofed up in its communicati...
AP: Tiger zone faces threat from ashram expansion
The Varikuntla tiger corridor zone in Kadapa, one of the last few homes left for the big cat in Andhra Pradesh, is under threat not from for...
TN govt departments owe discom Rs 1,500 core
The Union and state government departments are major power bill defaulters in Tamil Nadu. At present, ₹1,500 crore is pending from several g...
TN: New app to tell you where your bus is
On lines of mobile apps such as Ola and Uber, the government is developing a new app which will let public live track government buses and h...
Chennai: Sewage recycling to save 50mld water
With the addition of Metrowater's new tertiary treatment reverse osmosis (TTRO) plant in Kodungaiyur, industrial units at Manali, Ennore...
K'taka produces second largest number of PhDs
Karnataka produces the second largest number of PhDs in the country — 5,020 PhDs were awarded in 2018, of which 1,821 were for women, says t...
Water supply to get better in Chennai
Adding to the city’s precarious water bowl, Krishna waters from Andhra Pradesh reached the Poondi reservoir late on Saturday night. Early on...
PM's visit: Security up at IIT Madras
Security has been stepped up at IIT Madras campus and its surrounding areas in preparation for visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Mond...
Mumbai: Electric autos to be blue and white
The new e-autorickshaws in the Mumbai region that will run on electricity, are likely to have a different colour — white hoods with a blue b...
Mumbai: 3 rob commuter on local at knife point
Three armed men barged into the luggage compartment of a harbour line local train early on Friday morning and robbed a lone commuter, after ...
Life’s not all that bad for Mumbai’s strays
Muralidharan Nair’s tanned face melts into a scowl. “Look, if someone dares beat my stray dogs, I’ll bash him up,” says the 65-year-old who ...
Baby crawls out of hut, drowns in Nerul marsh
An eight-month-old boy drowned after he crawled towards a marshy patch of mangroves at Nerulbehind the hutment where his parents had pitched...
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Click a ‘Pride selfie’ at this Kolkata pandal
This Durga Puja will embrace the LGBTQI community with ‘Pride selfies’ and insight into the LGBTQI movement. On Mahalaya, the Adi Ballygunge...
Doctor, aide held for circulating actor’s posters
A general physician, Arunava Pal (36), and his friend, Sankarnath Haldar, were arrested from Sonarpur on Friday evening for circulating obje...
Single-use plastic ban in Kolkata from Oct 2
It’s time to rewind to the past for a greener future. That is the message from Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) just days ahead of the ba...
Biryani baron picked up for gambling in Kolkata
The owner of a popular biryani chain and a few others were picked up by Kolkata Police’s anti-rowdy section for gambling during raids across...
Centre yet to give Rs 6k cr to T'gana, says govt
In a sign of escalating tensions between the Centre and state, the Telangana government claimed that the BJP-led NDA government has not rele...
Uncle arrested for rape of nine-year-old niece
A 25-year-old man was taken into custody for the alleged rape of his nine-year-old niece in Madhapur on Friday. Click here to read more ...
AP: From Oct 1, buy booze from govt liquor stores
The state government is all set to implement its new excise policy from October 1. Deputy chief minister and minister for prohibition and ex...
Prajay residents hold silent protest against mgmt
Over 400 residents of Prajay Megapolis in Kukatpally Housing Board Colony (KPHB) on Saturday formed a human chain as part of a silent prote...
Fate of 60k Inter students in balance over affiliation delay
Delay in granting affiliation to 159 junior colleges in the state has put about 60,000 students in quandary as pupils from these colleges m...
Chennai to get mild rain today, forecasts Met
The city is expected to get mild rain on Sunday which is likely to be warm. Click here to read more
Non-Tamil Nadu centre NEET students under probe
As the NEET impersonation scam turns bigger with the arrest of one more first-year MBBS student anddetention of two morestudents who are ye...
Man who kicked mom told to pay Rs 10k to old age home
A man who beat his own mother, aged 75 years, with chappals and kicked her over a property dispute has been granted anticipatory bail by the...
Rs 350 cr deals for buying equipment for TN police under DVAC scanner
After an internal probe brought out serious irregularities in the procurement of communication equipment and gadgetssuch as body-worn camera...
HC junks residents’ plea against metro facility at Thiru-Vi-Ka park
The Madras high court refused to stall construction of a parking area and amenities centre planned by Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) in ...
CM flags off govt vans selling cheap onions
In a move to provide relief to Delhiites, Delhi government on Saturday started providing onions at Rs 23.9 per kg through mobile vans and fa...
Child gets off cab in Ghaziabad, run over
A 14-month-old boy died in front of his mother after being run over by a cab in their building compound in Crossings Republik late on Frida...
Delhi man kills self, kin blame cop
A 42-year-old man committed suicide allegedly after being harassed by a policeman in southeast Delhi's Jaitpur on Saturday.Police are pr...
Rural Najafgarh to get Delhi Metro link next week
Rural parts of Najafgarh will finally get connected to the Delhi Metro network. The 4.3km Dwarka-Najafgarh section of Grey Line is going to...
Snatching spree: 59-yr-old woman targeted in Delhi
Snatchers continue to run amok in the national capital. In yet another daring act, criminals targeted a 59-year-old woman in busy Jangpura m...
Mum: 5 extremely heavy rain days in Monsoon 2019
The city recorded as many as five “extremely heavy” rain days this monsoon, when over 200mm of downpour lashed the city within a 24-hour spa...
Pastor rapes 21-yr-old 'depressed' woman, held
A 45-year-old pastor of a prayer centre in Vasai has been arrested for allegedly hypnotising and raping a 21-year- old woman who suffered f...
Mumbai: Student fails in exams, fakes kidnapping
Sahar police team said an SYJC student faked her kidnapping to gain her father's "sympathy" after she failed in two subjects i...
Airoli teacher held for beating 8 Class 1 students
A teacher from Shrimati Sushiladevi Deshmukh Vidyalay in Airoli, was arrested for beating eight Class I students.Sunita Mahadik (50) was the...
Saturday, September 28, 2019
9 held for killing home-alone woman in B'luru
A 23-year-old youth and his eight friends were on Thursday arrested for allegedly strangling a 63-year-old home-alone woman to death and dec...
BJP leaders go on bad-mouthing spree in Karnataka
When criticising rivals and officials, politicians are increasingly breaching boundaries of decency and the trend continued in the state on ...
