MUMBAI: Indians are shopping for smaller packs of consumer goods as rising prices of groceries and household supplies weigh on their budgets. Categories like soaps, snacks and tea have been the most impacted by commodity inflation. There has been an almost 30% year-on-year inflation in palm oil – a key ingredient used in the aforementioned…
BAREILLY: For more than 3 weeks, over 5,000 residents of Soraha in UP’s Budaun district have been in darkness in severe winter cold, thanks to the theft of a 250kVA transformer that supplied power to the village. The theft came to light on December 14, when villagers, on their routine walks, found the transformer missing….
NEW DELHI: Commenting on frequent acrimonious proceedings in assemblies and Parliament, Supreme Court on Monday said it appears that legislators have forgotten how to be respectful while lodging strong dissent or criticising opponents.The remark came from a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N K Singh when it took up RJD neta Sunil Kumar Singh‘s…
India reported Monday seven cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection in children – two each in Bengaluru, Nagpur and Tamil Nadu, and one in Ahmedabad -amid a surge in respiratory illnesses in China. However, Union health minister J P Nadda allayed concerns, saying the rise in cases won’t lead to a Covid-like outbreak. “HMPV is…
NEW DELHI: After Tamil Nadu police’s withdrawal of an FIR against lottery king Santiago Martin in an alleged corruption case, now Enforcement Directorate has hit a new hurdle with Kolkata police filing a closure report in two FIRs against Martin and his company citing “want of evidence”.In the absence of a predicate offence (police FIR…
GUWAHATI: Around 15 labourers were feared trapped inside a coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district after a sudden gush of water flooded the site Monday morning.The accident occurred around 7 am at Assam Coal Quarry, situated in Umrangso’s 3 Kilo area in the district. According to locals, about 10-15 workers were inside the quarry…
BENGALURU: A 38-year-old software consultant and his wife died by suicide after killing their two children in Bengaluru on Sunday night. Financial burden and emotional stress are said to have forced the couple to take the extreme step.Preliminary investigation suggested Anup Kumar and Rakhi (35) poisoned their five-year-old autistic daughter Anupriya and two-year-old son Priyansh,…
MUMBAI: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing manipulation of documents for plots in ecologically sensitive Coastal Regulation Zones (CRZ) and no development zones (NDZ) in Mumbai has found 63 more forged records. With this, the total number of forged land record maps have touched 165.The tampering, which facilitated unauthorised construction on hundreds of properties along…
MUMBAI: Actor Salman Khan was the primary target of the gang that shot NCP politician Baba Siddique on October 12, said the police chargesheet submitted on Monday.The chargesheet claimed that Siddique’s murder was executed as part of a fallback plan after an initial attempt to eliminate Khan failed because of the security cover around the…
CHENNAI: In yet another faceoff between the M K Stalin govt and Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan, governor R N Ravi Monday walked out of the state assembly within three minutes of entering the House, and without reading the customary address, in protest of the national anthem not being played at the start of the first…
