NEW DELHI: On a long standing litigation between Mumbai and Bengaluru factions of Iskcon over control of Bengaluru temple, Supreme Court had kept the verdict reserved for more than a year and gave judgment favouring the Bengaluru branch in May just prior to the retirement of presiding judge Justice A S Oka. The bench of…
Lucknow: Month-long trial of potentiometers in buses, conducted by UPSRTC to develop a mechanism to check revenue loss due to fuel theft, has produced encouraging results.Installed inside fuel tanks, potentiometers record sudden dips in diesel level and report to the control room in real time.Fuel theft is one of the major reasons for revenue loss,…
Lucknow: The Vidyut Karmchari Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, Uttar Pradesh, has strongly opposed the proposed privatization of Purvanchal and Dakshinanchal electricity distribution corporations, which is reportedly tied to conditional financial aid from the central govt. VKSSS has labelled this move as “blackmail” and issued a red alert to all power employees and engineers across the state,…
Goyal with NZ trade minister Todd McClay in Auckland AUCKLAND: After five days of talks in two cities, the fourth round of negotiations on the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) concluded with both sides preparing the ground for a robust treaty. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal and New Zealand minister for trade Todd…
Lucknow: UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Saturday appealed to the people of Bihar to ensure the victory of the NDA, saying that it would give a new direction to the state’s development and prosperity. Maurya addressed election rallies in Bagaha and Ramnagar assembly constituencies of Champaran district.Addressing the rally in Bagaha, Maurya urged…
SHAMLI/ROHTAK: Four friends from Haryana’s Sonipat district were killed late Friday night when their car rammed into a canter on the Panipat-Khatima highway near the Butrada flyover in Shamli, report Sachin Sharma & Sat Singh. Police said the group had set off for Haridwar on an impulse trip to take a holy dip in the…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (REAT) has set aside a Rs 1 crore penalty imposed on the Delhi Development Authority by Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) for failing to register a housing project. The relief came after DDA argued that the Rohini project was completed before the RERA for Delhi was established in…
BENGALURU: A Rapido bike-taxi driver was arrested on Saturday in Bengaluru on charges of sexually harassing a 20-year-old woman during a trip. Lokesh (28), designated as “Rapido Captain” as the ride-hailing service calls its drivers, is accused of harassing the woman on Thursday. She shared her ordeal on Instagram, leading cops to take cognisance. The…
Cornell University has reached a settlement with the Trump administration that restores hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding, ending a months-long standoff over civil rights compliance and federal oversight. Earlier this year, the administration withheld $250 million from the university, citing alleged civil rights violations, a move that threatened critical research programmes…
SILCHAR: A first-year BTech student of NIT Silchar drowned and two of his batchmates went missing after slipping into a deep section of Bouchal waterfall near Hmunthajao in Assam‘s Dima Hasao district on Saturday, reports BB Goswami.Police said the students – Sohardya Rai (20) and Sarb Kritika (20) from Uttar Pradesh, and Radhika (19) from…
