Projects need to follow voters, to the added areas in Chennai CHENNAI: Electoral data after SIR underscores that the added areas are growing fast while the core city stays stagnant, underscoring the need for a policy shift in infrastructure investment and timely completion of civic projects. Even after nearly 30% deletions, the electorate in Sholinganallur,…
Patna: Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has initiated a transition to a sensor-based, IoT-enabled street lighting system to modernise urban infrastructure and improve energy efficiency across the city. According to the corporation, a tender has been floated to select an agency that will install 25,000 new street lights and automate the existing network through a Centralised…
Shakuntala Devi secured first place with a chip time of 42:31 while Neha stood second with at 44:22. NEW DELHI: The Times Internet Half Marathon saw strong participation from women athletes, with the under-29 10-kilometer category highlighting speed, determination, and emerging talent.Leading the category was 22-year-old Shakuntala Devi, who secured first place with a chip…
Kolkata: A physician who lives in Paris but visits Kolkata with his family at least once a year, has flown down to vote on Wednesday. A firm believer in the paradox ‘change is the only constant’, he voted for a change in 2011 when the Trinamool won a decisive mandate to overthrow the Left govt…
MUMBAI: Undeterred by the lack of formal classrooms, a social enterprise called Rangeet has launched a 15-day summer camp for underprivileged children in Jogeshwari East.This daily hour-long programme aims to bring fun learning coupled with life skills to the doorstep of underserved communities. The camp is under way from April 25 to May 12 and…
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old man allegedly murdered his tenant in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh area on Tuesday evening, suspecting an illicit relationship between the victim and his wife, police said.The accused, identified as Virender, a resident of Indira Colony, later walked into the police station in blood stained clothes and confessed to the crime, leading…
AG Perarivalan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. (TOI file photo) CHENNAI: Expressing shock over the enrolment of AG Perarivalan, a convict in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, in the Bar Council of TN and Puducherry, Congress MP R Sudha has written to President Droupadi Murmu urging cancellation of his…
Patna: The 108-year-old Patna University (PU) is witnessing a marked rise in research output, driven by a growing research-friendly environment on campus and the induction of young faculty members from across the country. The shift has brought a steady increase in research projects under the university’s domain.PU academics said nearly one-fourth of the faculty is…
Colombia has authorised the lethal removal of 80 hippos from the Magdalena River basin, where the animals are classified as an invasive species. Authorities say the population, descended from hippos introduced in the 1980s, threatens biodiversity, damages ecosystems and poses risks to local communities. AAnant Ambani, founder of Vantara in Jamnagar, has urged Colombia to…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s SIR tribunals have cleared 1,468 citizens to vote in the second phase of the assembly elections, taking the total number of cleared voters to 1,607 across the two polling phases in the state (139 people had their voting right restored in the first phase).The number of deletions by the tribunals in the second…
