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New Delhi: Highway commuters won’t have to stop to pay user fee at national highway toll plazas by 2026-end as the govt rolls out the multi-lane free flow (MLFF) system, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. He added that the FASTag annual pass launched in Aug, which allows private vehicles to…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued hearing matters related to Delhi’s air pollution crisis, with air quality remaining in the “severe” category in several areas of the national capital region.During the hearing, the court said, “Let us think of pragmatic and practical solution of the menace,” stressing the need for workable measures to…
The death toll from the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney has risen to 16, including a child, as survivors reveal harrowing details of the attack and question the ‘underprepared’ police response, reports the Daily Mail. The massacre on Sunday targeted a Hanukkah festival full of Jews and is being treated as an act of terrorism….
Chinese demand for foreign luxury cars is waning as customers opt for more affordable Chinese brand models, often sold at big discounts, catering to their taste for fancy electronics and comfort. That is bad news for European carmakers like Porsche, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz and BMW that have long dominated the upper reaches of the world’s…
BHOPAL: A tiger carcass was found Saturday during a survey in Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh reserve, taking the casualty count to six in a week and 54 so far this year in the state with India’s largest number of big cats. This is Madhya Pradesh’s highest annual toll since Project Tiger was launched in 1973. The…
PANAJI: In a major tragedy ahead of the peak tourist season, 25 people were killed, including five tourists, after an inferno tore through a popular nightclub, Birch by Romeo Lane, at Arpora, late on Saturday night. Four of the deceased were from the same family in Delhi, and three of them were women, while one…
RAIPUR: Maoist casualties in Wednesday’s operation by security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region rose to 18 after six more bodies, including wanted PLGA commander Vella Modiyam, were retrieved Thursday from the gunfight site along the Dantewada-Bijapur border.Nine of the slain guerrillas, who had a combined bounty of Rs 1.3 crore on their heads, were women….
MEERUT/BAREILLY: Uttar Pradesh’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive took another grim turn this week, with a BLO dying of brain haemorrhage in Bareilly, another attempting suicide in Meerut, and a primary school teacher in Bulandshahr threatening to take her life over what she described as unbearable pressure linked to the SIR work. With these…
MUMBAI: The rupee broke the psychologically crucial 90 mark against the US dollar for the first time and slid to an intra-day low of 90.29 against the greenback on Wednesday before settling 32 paise below Tuesday’s close at 90.19, extending a decline that now threatens to spill over into the wider economy.The currency has weakened…
AGRA: A 45-year-old govt teacher assigned as a booth-level officer (BLO) for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls collapsed and died while preparing to leave for duty in Hathras district on Tuesday morning. His family has alleged that work-related stress caused the fatal collapse. His wife alleged that work-related stress led to the…
