New Delhi: Northern Railway’s Delhi division will operate hundreds of special trains during the upcoming festive season to cater to the rush of passengers travelling to and from the capital.Most of the services will be operated between Oct 1 and Nov 30, according to a senior Northern Railway official.The special trains will originate from or…
Gandhinagar: The state govt will annually honour top-performing officials from seven citizen-facing departments under a new ‘Atal Good Governance Award’ scheme, with Class-I officers to receive a cash prize of Rs 31,000 and Class-II officers Rs 21,000.The scheme will be implemented from the financial year 2025-26, an official statement said on Monday. The performance assessment…
Pune: State Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal on Monday said the opposition party would not allow ministers to roam around freely in the state if drought was not announced soon.He termed state govt “insensitive” for not declaring drought to provide immediate relief to farmers, while several ministers had undertaken field visits to gauge the situation. The…
Keri: A slender loris was found dead after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the Surla–Kankumbi road near the confluence of the Kalasa and Surla streams on Monday.Ramesh Zarmekar, a wildlife enthusiast from Surla, discovered the carcass. Zarmekar said slender lorises, primates native to India and Sri Lanka, are arboreal and nocturnal, foraging and…
NEW DELHI: Microsoft’s new India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad is among its largest infrastructure investments in Asia, the company’s India and South Asia president Puneet Chandok said, as it expands capacity for cloud and AI services.The facility is part of Microsoft’s $20.5 billion investment commitment across Asia. Chandok did not disclose how much…
‘Hanuman Ansh’ recorded a sharp fall in its India net collection on the first Monday of its seventh week. The film earned Rs 4.00 cr on Day 46. Its total India net collection has now reached Rs 275.88 cr. According to Sacnilk, the film collected Rs 4.00 cr from 7,629 shows on Monday, September 21….
NBA legend Charles Barkley. Image Credit: Basket Network St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans received a $1 million pledge from former NBA star Charles Barkley after two of its students made a unique breakthrough in mathematics. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, then high-school seniors, developed a new proof of the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry….
The Indian kitchen of the 1960s looked very different from today. There were no instant noodles, ready-to-eat meals or supermarket aisles packed with dozens of snack brands. Yet packaged food was slowly becoming part of urban life.Some products that once felt familiar have almost disappeared from everyday conversation. Others survive only as old tins, faded…
General:Keep a tighter grip on the day than usual. Saturn asks for discipline, and the Moon highlights leakage of money, energy, and patience, so things can slip if you act carelessly.Expenses may run ahead of income today. Small spending adds up fast, online orders, convenience food, cab rides, subscriptions, a household item you didn’t plan…
Mumbai: Nearly three months after Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the state assembly a Rs 13,000 crore integrated flood control master plan to tackle Mumbai’s chronic flooding problem, mainly in low-lying areas, BMC has drawn up a Rs 7,345.9 crore plan to be implemented under Urban Flood Risk Management Programme (UFRMP).Additional municipal commissioner…
