NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Sunday delayed his travel to his residence after arriving at IGI airport from Kolkata to ensure that no candidate appearing in the NEET re-examination faced any inconvenience due to traffic restrictions.People aware about this said that after arriving at IGI airport around 1.15pm, Modi chose to wait at the airport…
Kolkata: Amid gusty winds and heavy rainfall, examinees struggled to reach their examination halls for the NEET re-test on Sunday. Out of 109,527 registered candidates, 93,878 appeared for the exam, while 15,649 skipped the re-test. Candidates appearing for the test in Kolkata faced severe difficulties reaching their centres because a heavy downpour drenched the city…
In Parel, Vinayak Wairkar grew up in a household where two generations had gone to jail for Shiv Sena. His uncle was part of Balasaheb Thackeray’s original security detail, the Bhagwa Guard, in the years when the party was young and its enemies were real. “Everyone was ready to lay down their lives on a…
New Delhi: “I enjoy doing yoga with my mother. I do it every day at home and at school too,” six-year-old Myra said, sitting cross-legged on her mat at Lodhi Garden. As the city eased into a warm but not so unpleasant Sunday morning, Delhi’s green spaces transformed into vibrant arenas, with people from different…
Jasbir Singh, executive chairman and CEO of Amber Enterprises India Chennai: Amber Group plans a rapid ramp-up of commercial production of Oppo branded smartphones with 8 million units by the 2028 financial year, which is roughly about 20% of Oppo’s India volume. It plans to ramp it up to 15 million in FY29, with trial…
Begusarai: Police on Sunday arrested two persons accused of gang-raping a woman on June 11 night in the district.Superintendent of police (SP) Manish said police arrested Nitish Kumar, a named accused in the case from Faridabad in Haryana. “Besides, Amar Nishad alias Amarjeet Kumar was also arrested from the diara area here. Amar is not…
NEW DELHI: Multiple rib fractures, a major surgery, oxygen support and need for chest drain could not stop Shrishti Dubey from taking the NEET-UG re-examination Sunday. A week after a serious road accident, the West Bengal candidate entered a specially prepared room at her Kolkata centre, determined not to lose the opportunity for which she…
Former Bengal minister Aroop Biswas at Alipore Judges’ court to visit his lawyer’s chamber Kolkata: Slapped with a show-cause notice on Saturday for his June 12 letter to HDFC Bank seeking a debit freeze on Trinamool’s bank accounts, former state minister Aroop Biswas has responded with a three-page letter on Sunday, claiming that even while…
Illustration of a Bandra street as it will look in 2050 Mumbai: In the 1950s, one side of a typical street in Bandra (W) would have ten plots and 10 houses with about 50 residents and perhaps four cars among them. In the 1990s, with higher floor space index (FSI) — the ratio that defines…
NEW DELHI: Parking rage claimed another life in the city when a 26-year-old woman was savagely stabbed to death and her husband critically injured in an orgy of violence that unfolded in front of the couple’s five-year-old son in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka Saturday.The accused is a juvenile — a neighbour and distant relative of the…
