HYDERABAD The Backward classes (BC) constitute 46.25% (categories A, B, C and D) or approximately 1.64 crore of the over 3.5 crore population in Telangana, making them the largest group, according to the recent caste survey done across the state.Also, BCs among the minorities (category E) make up an additional 10.08% (35.76 lakh), taking the…
MUMBAI: Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak visited Parsee Gymkhana at Marine Drive in Mumbai on Sunday morning to play tennis ball cricket. The landmark gymkhana, the first such community sports club to come up on the city’s coast in the late 19th century, celebrates its 140th anniversary this month.History turned a full circle as…
KOLKATA: Three construction workers assigned to repair a sewer joint inside a 10ft deep manhole at Kolkata Leather Complex, allegedly without protective gear, drowned Sunday morning after possibly inhaling toxic gas, police said.Farzem Sheikh (58), Suman Sardar (30) and Hasibur Sheikh (30) were part of a team contracted to renovate a portion of a drainage…
JAMMU: A team of experts from AIIMS Delhi on Sunday met 11 patients undergoing treatment for a mysterious illness in J&K’s Rajouri district, which has claimed 17 lives so far, and collected samples from their sealed homes and surrounding areas in Badhaal village.No new cases have been reported in the past nine days from Badhaal…
MUMBAI: Five people, including two foreign nationals, were injured after a hotel driver steering a Mercedes lost control of the vehicle and rammed into them at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai Sunday morning.Police have registered a case of rash driving against the driver and took him into custody. Some of the injured have been…
MUMBAI: Seattle-based Indian-American economist and ex-Seattle City Council’s Kshama Sawant, who faced two e-visa rejections last year and has been waiting for an emergency visa to meet her ailing mother for three weeks, has accused the Indian govt of “harassment” and is considering legal recourse. Sawant, 51, said her repeated attempts to visit her 82-year-old…
NAGPUR: A man in mid 20s was brutally murdered in full public view at Kawrapeth on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Shubham Harane. His friend-turned-foe, Prayag Asole, slit his throat with a sharp object before fleeing the scene. The shocking daylight murder has sparked tension in the area.According to sources, Harane had been…
VARANASI: A mason ended his life by suicide while he was on a video call with his wife in Sarnath area.Inspector Sarnath Vivek Tripathi said on Sunday that Rakesh Yadav (28) of Bhujari (Khanpur) in Ghazipur district hanged himself at a plot where he worked on Friday night. His wife, Seema Prajapati of Lamahi, and…
NEW DELHI: India and Russia look to intensify inter-parliamentary dialogue and cooperation with a visit to India this week by state duma (lower house of Parliament) chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. In the annual summit meeting last year in Moscow, PM Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin had underlined the importance of regular meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Commission…
MUMBAI: A 55-year-old woman was allegedly raped inside an empty compartment of a long-distance train at Bandra railway terminus in the intervening night between Saturday and Sunday. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Govt Railway Police (GRP) arrested the accused Sunday morning. Police said that the accused is a labourer and they are still…
