Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday night held a strategy meet with key functionaries and fine-tuned the election blueprint to ensure a high turnout for the first polling day on Thursday. Shah tasked functionaries with ensuring that each polling station is manned until voting concludes.In a series of meetings that continued till 3am…
Mumbai: The BMC has launched a centralised system to streamline resolution of all types of citizen complaints. The new platform, called the Management and Redressal of Grievances (MARG) system, was inaugurated by the city’s mayor Ritu Tawde with the aim of boosting citizen participation and ensuring faster, more effective delivery of civic services.The MARG system…
The accused, Rahul Meena, has been sent to 4-day custody. NEW DELHI: Investigators probing the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in south Delhi suspect that the accused entered the Kailash Hills apartment using a spare key and went straight to a rooftop study, where he allegedly assaulted the daughter of a former employer…
Kamala being brought to the polling station NAMAKKAL: A 60-year-old woman in Namakkal district, who has been bedridden for the past six months following a stroke, wanted to cast her votes. When Kamala of Kaveri RS near Pallipalayam expressed her wish, her son and daughter-in-law arranged an ambulance to take her to the polling station…
On Tuesday, an alarming moment unfolded at Patna’s new integrated terminal building when a tile from a nearby pillar fell loose. Fortunately, no one was injured. Airport officials acted swiftly, sealing off the area and launching a thorough inspection. They reassured the public that this incident is an isolated one and not indicative of any…
Sabarimala temple (Kerala tourism photo) NEW DELHI: Hearing a case on gender discrimination in temples like Sabarimala, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it respects the views of eminent authors and thinkers, but cannot rely on information from ‘WhatsApp University.‘The remark came from a nine-judge Constitution bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant hearing petitions…
Kolkata/Jaldapara: The forest department has put in place special measures to ensure voter safety during the first phase of the Bengal assembly elections on Thursday, with a focus on elephant-prone areas of south and north Bengal.Around 25 polling booths have been identified as sensitive in south Bengal because of their proximity to active elephant corridors….
Mumbai: More than eight months after the Mumbai Coastal Road (South) project was opened round-the-clock to motorists, landscaping of the open spaces along the stretch is yet to begin. Civic officials said the BMC has been asked by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)—which has been assigned the landscaping work—to first carry out soil filling up to…
A former domestic help was arrested in Delhi for the alleged rape and murder of an IRS officer’s daughter NEW DELHI: A former domestic help allegedly turned fugitive was arrested from a hotel in Dwarka after Delhi Police pieced together a digital trail involving a stolen mobile phone, hotel Wi-Fi access, IP data records and…
CHENNAI: Polling at a booth in T T Arasu Matriculation School in Choolaimedu was disrupted for over two hours on polling day after a malfunction in the electronic voting machine (EVM).Voting began at 7am and was proceeding normally until around 10am, when the EVM suddenly stopped working. At the time of the disruption, more than…
