PM Modi departs for Croatia (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed for Croatia early Wednesday, marking the final stop of his three-nation tour after wrapping up a productive visit to Canada, where he participated in the G7 Summit held in Kananaskis, Alberta.At the summit venue, the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge, PM…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: Calcutta HC temporarily stayed Tuesday Bengal govt’s new OBC list of 140 sub-groups – 80 Muslim, 60 non-Muslim – till July 31, halting a move that had replaced the earlier 113-group list struck down by the court in May last year.A division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar…
MEERUT: Among the 60,000-odd candidates appointed this week in UP’s largest-ever police recruitment drive, a 41-year-old retired Army havildaar and his 21-year-old son from a village in Hapur received their constable appointment letters together from Union home minister Amit Shah and CM Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow. Their selection, confirmed after over two years of joint…
THANE: Following an incident in which a 64-year-old man ‘came back to life’ after being declared dead by a doctor, the health department of Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation has issued notice to Dr Prabhu Ahuja and has asked him to explain the wrong declaration of death, reports Pradeep Gupta.On Thursday, Abhiman Girdhar Tayde (64), a cancer…
KOLHAPUR: A woman software engineer working in the US with her husband on Monday enrolled her son Vihan (7) in a zilla parishad school in Sangli Atpadi to learn Marathi, his mother tongue. Vihan will live with his uncle and attend school with his cousins.Vihan’s mother, Bharati Vijaykumar Shelke, told TOI that the boy was…
TOI Social Impact Summit to honour breakout work in CSR-ESG The scope and reach of CSR (corporate social responsibility) has grown exponentially since its origin in 2014 as a government mandate that had corporates set aside 2% of their profits towards socially responsible work. Today, businesses own this space and are invested in supporting and…
Israel ambassador to India Reuven Azar on Tuesday said Israel is in touch with the ministry of external affairs about possible requests for evacuation of Indians. In a media briefing, the ambassador also said Israel will continue to do what is within its capabilities to “degrade” Iran’s nuclear programme. He said it would be better…
Falguni Dey, a Kolkata-based geography professor stranded in Tehran, on Monday evening embarked on a dangerous journey to Astara in Iran’s Gilan province bordering Azerbaijan in a bid to escape Israeli missile attacks, reports Rohit Khanna. Dey spoke to a travel agent on Monday and left the city in a car for a 1000km journey…
GARHWA: A 19-year-old newly married woman allegedly killed her husband, Budhnath Singh, 22, on Monday by spiking his food with pesticide in Bahokudar village of Jharkhand’s Garhwa district, reports Q A Hadi.Sunita Singh, who was from neighbouring Chhattisgarh, was married to Budhnath on May 11. His mother has filed a complaint with police, alleging that…
Israel strike Iran- File Photo NEW DELHI: As the Israel-Iran conflict entered its fifth day, the Indian govt said Indian students in Tehran had been moved out of the city for reasons of safety, through arrangements made by the Indian embassy.The ministry of external affairs also said in a statement that other residents who are…
