Mumbai: Bombay high court recently directed the state govt to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation under a May 29, 2020 Govt Resolution (GR) within 16 weeks to the widow of a peon in the Goods and Services Tax Department who died due to Covid-19. Justices Makarand Karnik and Shriram Modak on Feb 23 said that…
New Delhi: Delhiites continued to reel under intense heat conditions as the maximum temperature settled at 35.6 degrees Celsius, seven degrees above normal, on Sunday at Safdarjung, which is the city’s base station. It rose further to 38.9 degrees Celsius, 10 notches above normal, at Ridge Observatory in north Delhi.The mercury at Safdarjung was 35.7…
Pune: Imagine opening a tap in your kitchen to fill a bottle and spotting scores of wriggling little red worms appear in the murky, smelly water. This appalling reality has become a daily occurrence for close to 7,000 households in Mhalunge, who depend entirely on the highly polluted Mula river as their only source of…
Saudi Aramco jumped the most since April 2023 on Sunday as the Iran war entered its second week, prompting supply disruptions that may send oil prices higher when global markets reopen. Shares of the state-backed oil giant climbed as much as 4.9% in Riyadh before paring gains to close up 4.1%, on the first day…
Oil prices surged Friday, with Brent crude topping $90 per barrel for the first time since the latest escalation of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The rally came as US President Donald Trump warned there would be no agreement with Iran, posting on Truth Social that the only acceptable outcome would be “unconditional surrender.”…
Mumbai: In a first for an urban local body in Asia, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in January approved through its high-rise committee (HRC) for empanelment of geotechnical/foundation experts to scrutinise as independent signatory for the foundations of high-rise buildings and ensure that excavation and construction practices meet stringent safety standards. The new norm states…
New Delhi: As a bulldozer tore down parts of a house linked to one of the accused behind the lynching of 26-year-old Tarun Butolia, clouds of dust hung in the narrow lane of Uttam Nagar’s JJ colony on Sunday. Near the rubble, the doors of a small neighbourhood tuition centre were open, but the desks…
Pune: PMC commissioner Naval Kishore Ram will table the draft municipal budget for the financial year 2026-27 on Monday. “The budget will be presented at 3pm at the PMC headquarters in Shivajinagar,” stated a press release issued by the civic body.As per civic officials, this is the first municipal budget after the newly elected body…
NEW DELHI: India’s official statistical machinery is set to better its estimation of district domestic products (DDP), with the availability of more granular data in the new GDP series, statistics secretary Saurabh Garg told TOI.“We have given more focus on having more granular data in this series, so that state domestic products are captured much…
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Strategy disclosed its third-largest Bitcoin purchase of the year, adding $200 million worth of the asset to reach approximately 720,750 total holdings. Summary Strategy bought $200M in Bitcoin, raising holdings to about 720,750 BTC. Deloitte verified USAT reserves in the stablecoin’s first attestation. Kazakhstan plans a $350M…
