Shillong: Shillong: Meghalaya’s “small population” (2,966,889 as per 2011 census) should not determine its future, CM Conrad K Sangma said on Wednesday, stressing that the state’s productivity would be determined by quality rather than quantity.“My commitment is that govt will continue to sustain SPARK (School Programmes in Articulation, Resilience and Kindness) as a long-term handholding…
Haveri: Unscientific speed humps on roads across Haveri district are making travel difficult, particularly for two-wheeler riders.Sources said speed humps are required to follow prescribed standards, with a maximum height of 10 cm, but several installed during road construction and repair works are allegedly as high as 10 inches.Commuters blamed elected representatives and officials for…
Kanpur residents protested rain-damaged roads by symbolically renaming a street Yamraj ka Dwar KANPUR: Residents of Kanpur protested against the worsening condition of rain-damaged roads by symbolically renaming 80 Feet Road in Barra as ‘Yamlok Dwar’. A young man, dressed as Yamraj, cut a ribbon to highlight the numerous waterlogged potholes.Protesters held a banner by…
KOLKATA: A Bengali film following the challenges of a schoolteacher, whose life was upended after her personal matters went public, has been selected for a world premiere at Busan International Film Festival. Data scientist Sandeep Kumar Paul’s ‘About an Intimate Matter (Ekanta Byaktigata Bishoy)’, starring Sreya Bhattacharya, examines the voyeuristic nature of modern society, placing…
Ludhiana: As the deadline for the mixed land-use extension along Gill Road approaches, residents and local unit owners are expressing frustration over repeated short-term extensions, urging the state government to relocate industrial units to dedicated industrial zones while protecting livelihoods.While residents acknowledge the need to prevent occupational crises for small manufacturers, they stated that operating…
Udupi: A 55-year-old rubber tapper died at Karkala Govt Hospital on Sunday, two days after he was allegedly bitten by an unidentified inspect while working at a rubber plantation at Alapalli near Mala village.The deceased, Surendran PA, a resident of Nellimattam in Kottamangalam taluk of Kerala, had been working as a rubber tapper at Jobish’s…
File photo of MLA Gopal Krishna Belur Shivamogga: Congress MLA Gopal Krishna Belur Tuesday issued a 15-day ultimatum to Sagar tahsildar R Pratibha to streamline taluk administration, warning that she could face transfer if operations did not improve.The confrontation unfolded during a review meeting in Sagar, where the MLA objected to the officer’s style of…
The main accused, Balraj, was killed in a police encounter on August 29 NOIDA: The main accused in the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Greater Noida had allegedly committed two similarly horrific crimes in 2017 — the sexual assault and murder of a 70-year-old woman and the sodomising and killing of a…
Rahul Gandhi portrayed Savarkar as ‘extreme hater of Muslims’, grandnephew tells court PUNE: Satyaki Savarkar, grandnephew of Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, told a special court in Pune on Tuesday that Savarkar “never hated Muslims” and had written about ways for their progress, while alleging that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had portrayed him as an…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: Researchers from the remote sensing laboratory at Goa University’s school of earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences (SEOAS), led by professor Harilal Menon, have developed a mobile application to study how visible light decreases with depth and how underwater visibility changes in coastal and estuarine waters.The application, VEDA (visible-light extinction with depth analysis), was developed…
