NEW DELHI: The Delhi govt attempted two trials of cloud seeding on Tuesday, but neither led to any rainfall in the city. However, IIT Kanpur, which executed the project, claimed that neighbouring areas received negligible rainfall – Noida (0.1 mm) and Greater Noida (0.2 mm) at 4pm attributing the data to a private app, Windy.Delhi…
Pune’s emergence as an education and investment hub is spurring global schooling models, with Global Schools Group opening its third campus there PUNE: Pune’s growing role as an education and investment hub is driving a new wave of global schooling models, says Atul Temurnikar, chairman and co-founder of Global Schools Group (GSG), which is set…
Mumbai: A student from VJTI’s batch of 2026 has secured a record package of Rs 72.3 lakh from an American company, up from last year’s highest offer of Rs 57 lakh. Three other students from the college have bagged offers of Rs 54 lakh each from Google. Meanwhile, students from other engineering colleges in the…
New Delhi: Byelections to 12 vacant MCD seats will be held on Nov 30 and results declared on Dec 3, state election commission (SEC) said on Tuesday. The last date for filing nominations is Nov 10, and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is Nov 15. The 12 wards are Dwarka B, Mundka, Shalimar…
Pune: When farmer Amrita Bharati entered the zilla parishad school in her village, Karanjgaon, last Sept, she was shocked by what she saw: children eating directly from thin plastic bags and then discarding them on the ground. Concerned about the health and environmental risks of carrying food in plastic, she visited two other schools in…
Mumbai: Ports operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) expressed an intent to participate in projects worth Rs 53,000 crore at the upcoming Vadhvan port in Palghar by signing two MoUs with the Centre-run Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) on Tuesday.The MoUs were inked at the ongoing India Maritime Week Summit in Goregaon…
New Delhi: Pulling up Delhi govt for its “lackadaisical approach,” Delhi High Court Tuesday demanded an explanation as to why no disciplinary proceedings were initiated yet against Tihar jail officials over an alleged extortion racket being run inside the prison, in cahoots with a few inmates.“What is this status quo? Since Aug 13 we passed…
Pune: The head of the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) health department and the dean in-charge of civic-run Bharatratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College are at loggerheads over authority after the former sent a letter seeking an explanation from the latter about faculty members allegedly not attending to patients at Kamala Nehru Hospital, which is affiliated…
Mumbai: The state govt has distributed Rs 8,000 crore as relief so far to around 40 lakh farmers whose kharif crops were washed away by heavy rain and floods in Maharashtra recently. Another tranche of Rs 21,000 crore was cleared for distribution on Tuesday after the state cabinet took a review of the relief disbursed.This…
New Delhi: Parents are an integral part of a Hindu joint family, and a spouse’s apathy and indifference towards them is a form of cruelty in a matrimonial dispute, Delhi High Court has said. It upheld the divorce granted to a husband by a family court and dismissed the estranged wife’s appeal. The court observed…
