MUMBAI: In 1935, Khurshed Maneckji Bharucha – the first Indian chief cashier of Tata Steel in Jamshedpur – borrowed Rs 3.5 lakh from a friend who owned an island near Bombay. Soon, on an open ground at Bistupur junction, arose a four-storey building with partition walls made of ‘surkhi’, a burnt clay and limestone mix….
New Delhi: A week after shots were fired at a gym in outer Delhi’s Paschim Vihar, Delhi Police have arrested two men linked to Lawrence Bishnoi gang in connection with the incident.The two men detained in the case were identified as Arman (19) and Tushar (21), both residents of Gohana in Haryana.Special commissioner of police…
Chennai: The district consumer disputes redressal commission, Chennai (North) has ordered Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Ltd to pay ₹9.27 lakh with interest to a Chennai woman for denying the claim for her husband’s cancer treatment on contradictory grounds. It also pulled up the insurer for deficiency in service.The comprising President D Gopinath and…
Medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfect their equipment at an Ebola treatment centre during a ceremony to present recovery certificates to patients at the Rwambara General Reference Hospital in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Gandhinagar: The state govt has facilitated the return of a professor, who had been stranded in Ebola-affected…
Kolkata: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, has advised employees to refrain from activities or public comments that could harm communal harmony or national integrity and to uphold the highest standards of conduct. The advisory, issued Wednesday by director Amartya Kumar Dutta, cited the need to safeguard the institute’s reputation. Source link
ECI may consider extending the SIR exercise if time is required to ensure that all eligible voters are covered Pune: The state Chief Electoral Officer has forwarded the Congress’s demand to postpone the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by a month to the Election Commission of India. The party cited concerns that the…
Panaji: Nearly two years after the Goa College of Engineering (GEC) recommended demolishing the structurally unsafe Panaji municipal fish market, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has initiated steps to rebuild the facility.The civic body on Tuesday floated a request for proposal (RFP) to appoint an architect for designing a “modern, efficient and…
The Strait of Hormuz is back in business after more than 100 days of disruption, with over 60 million barrels of crude set to leave the pipeline. Following a US-Iran peace deal, one of the world’s most important oil routes is set to reopen, releasing millions of barrels of crude that had been stuck inside…
Messi and Ronaldo (Image : X) The FIFA World Cup 2026 has introduced a unique way of honoring some of the game’s greatest servants. Fans watching Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo during the tournament may have noticed a special “FIFA World Cup Legacy” badge on their sleeves, an exclusive distinction reserved for a select group…
Hollywood’s beloved star, Brad Pitt, once had a famous friend to thank for his sobriety journey. A few years ago, the ‘F1’ actor, who first opened up about getting sober in 2017, revealed at an awards ceremony that his fellow star Bradley Cooper played a significant role in inspiring his path to recovery.Cooper presented Pitt,…
