Mumbai: Mango and cashew farmers from Konkan, backed by farmer leader Raju Shetti and the opposition, staged a protest and demanded compensation worth Rs 5 lakh per hectare for damage to crops by unseasonal rain. The current compensation is Rs 22,000 per hectare.The protesters originally meant to march from Girgaum Chowpatty to the CM’s residence—Varsha—but…
New Delhi: The govt on Friday opened the process for submitting new ration card applications and requests to add family members through the e-District portal. Several old and long-pending applications have also been sent back to applicants’ e-District accounts for fresh submission, said an official.Delhi currently has over 17 lakh ration card holders covering nearly…
Chennai: A massive fire broke out at a godown storing discarded electronic equipment at the Tech Mahindra campus in Sholinganallur on Friday evening. No casualties were reported.The warehouse is located inside the Tamil Nadu Electronics Corporation Special Economic Zone on Chennai’s Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), where several IT and automobile companies operate with nearly 6,000…
Patna: A 76-year-old woman with severe “mitral regurgitation” was successfully treated using India’s first home-grown mitral clip device, MyClip at a hospital here.Mitral regurgitation is a condition in which the heart’s mitral valve fails to close properly, causing blood to leak backward and increasing the risk of heart failure, said doctors.The elderly patient had been…
Ranchi: Door-to-door house-listing, part of the first phase of Census 2027 in Jharkhand, will formally commence from Saturday as enumerators will hit the ground for physical verification process.The self-enumeration process, which began on May 1, and introduced for the first time, ended after midnight Friday. The house-listing work will be on till June 14 during…
Ranchi: Three men were arrested with body parts of monitor lizards at a city a hotel, forest officials here said on Friday. The accused Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, 64, his son Avinash Anand,32, and Arun Ram, 34, were arrested late on Thursday based on a tip-off from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB).They have been booked…
NEW DELHI: After All India Trinamool Congress suffered its worst electoral setback in years, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday told leaders unhappy with the situation that they were free to leave, amid internal dissent.At a meeting with the party’s candidates who contested the recent 2026 West Bengal assembly election, held at her Kalighat residence…
Kolkata: Around 30% of illegal parking in the city in the past 48 hours was primarily reported from three separate zones – the headquarter guard comprising the Dalhousie and Esplanade areas, the Sealdah guard where Koley Market and Narkeldanga emerged as the most challenging zones and Bhowanipore guard where double-lane parking, even among residents, emerged…
Mumbai: Housing societies across Mumbai have been urged by the BMC to take responsibility for watering trees within private premises as soaring temperatures continue to impact the city’s green cover. Simultaneously, the civic body’s Solid Waste Management department has begun watering roadside trees through tankers during road-cleaning drives in several parts of the city. Civic…
New Delhi: While returning from work on Thursday night, an exhausted Shekhar decided to postpone refuelling his car till the next morning. But when he stopped at a petrol pump before heading to office on Friday, he came to know that fuel prices had gone up overnight. “I now have to shell out nearly Rs…
