Kolkata: Gariahat police have registered an FIR on charges of extortion, assault and criminal intimidation following a complaint by a site in-charge of a construction firm, who alleged that two men, Chiku Manna and Uttam Mondal, and their associates disrupted work at a building project on Jamini Roy Road and demanded money and business rights.According…
Mumbai: While the physical verification of the electoral roll through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) will begin on June 30, election officials have successfully mapped 75% of current voters with records available in the 2002 electoral roll of the voter, their parents or grandparents.Of the state’s 9.8 crore voters, 7.4 crore have been mapped. Of…
NEW DELHI: Delhiites lay exposed to lethal levels of heat stress both during the day and night Sunday as the ‘feels like’ temperature stayed above 50 degrees C while night temperature surged to the highest recorded in June in two years.A heatwave added to the woes. Day temperatures at Safdarjung, Delhi’s base station, topped at…
It was just under 2 lakh last year Chennai: India’s electric passenger vehicle (EPV) market is expected to maintain strong growth momentum in 2026, with annual sales likely to exceed 3 lakh units for the first time, compared with just under 2 lakh last year. So far in 2026, registrations are closing in on the…
Buxar: In line with state govt’s directive to observe Panchayat Development Day on the last Sunday of every month, energy department secretary Ajay Yadav, who is CMD of Bihar State Power (Holding) Company Limited and secretary in charge of Buxar district, attended a programme at Churamanpur gram panchayat in Buxar block.The theme of this month’s…
Representative image (AI) NEW DELHI: Newborns and young children identified as being at high health risk will receive more intensive homebased care, including additional follow-up visits by frontline health workers, under a new national programme that the Centre will launch Monday to strengthen care during the first three years of life. Health minister JP Nadda…
Kolkata: Baguiati police have launched a probe into an alleged financial fraud in which a man was duped of Rs 34.5 lakh under the pretext of securing a business loan. According to the complaint, the victim, who was facing financial difficulties, approached a private consultancy firm seeking a loan of Rs 30 lakh. The firm’s…
Q. The Special Intensive Revision will start tomorrow. What should voters expect?Chief Electoral Officer S Chockalingam (SC) The field verification is the most important phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) because the tentative mapping we carried out so far will be physically confirmed. The guiding principle of the exercise is that no eligible voter should…
New Delhi: More than six months after Delhi Traffic Police, civic agencies and the transport department identified 62 major traffic congestion hotspots across the capital and proposed 215 short-, medium- and long-term interventions to ease bottlenecks, work has been completed at 34 locations.However, over a quarter of the proposed measures have been shelved, highlighting that…
Ravichandran PurushothamanI grew up on a farm, where you learn to never waste what you spent months cultivating. The sun is free. Diesel is not. That lesson came back in April, when Rajasthan—India’s largest solar state with 41 GW of capacity—was forced to switch off its own sunshine. In March alone, 8,300MW of renewable power…
