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Chennai power cut today: These parts of city to face electricity disruption

September 27, 2021 7:01:18 am

Chennai power disruption September 27, Monday: Parts of Chennai will face a power cut from 9 am to 2 pm for maintenance work today.

Mumbai confidential: Political Insurance

September 27, 2021 5:09:38 am

With no immediate end in sight of the NCP-Shiv Sena bonhomie, Kande's petition is being seen as a way of hedging his political future in case the alliance lasts till the 2024 elections.

All court work to be done virtually only today, orders HC after Bar Association plea

September 27, 2021 5:07:53 am

The order has been passed by the Bench of Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, following the request of the Bar Association.

Farmers ready to protest for 10 yrs, won’t allow farm laws to be implemented: Rakesh Tikait

September 27, 2021 7:07:08 am

He was speaking at a mahapanchayat held by farmers in Panipat on Sunday before the bandh. Several senior farmer leaders, including Tikait and Gurnam Singh Chaduni, addressed the mahapanchayat.

Who is Bharat Bhushan Ashu, the only minister in new Punjab Cabinet from Ludhiana city

September 27, 2021 4:49:09 am

Ashu grew close to Rahul Gandhi after getting in touch with senior Congress leader Kishori Lal and was eventually given a ticket from Ludhiana West — an urban constituency with Hindu voters — for the Punjab Assembly elections in 2012.

Channi visits cotton fields in Bathinda, meets affected farmers

September 27, 2021 4:38:28 am

Charanjit Singh Channi moved around with minimum security in the area. At Mandi Kalan village, he had a meal at the house of a farm labourer who had died during farm protests.

Only Doaba minister in Capt Cabinet dropped

September 27, 2021 4:30:07 am

Arora has represented the Hoshiarpur Assembly segment since 2012 and became minister for the first time in 2017 when the Congress came to power.

Why one of Captain’s most fierce critics found no place in new Cabinet

September 27, 2021 4:23:56 am

There are faces in the new cabinet who remained loyal to Captain Amarinder Singh and opposed Navjot Singh Sidhu, and still managed to bag ministerial berths. It is only Bajwa and his men who seem to have missed out.

Punjab: Seven new faces in Channi ministry; Amarinder critics get berths, 8 ministers stay

September 27, 2021 4:01:43 am

There are seven new faces in the ministry, while eight former ministers have been retained. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers at Raj Bhawan.

Half a million cases and counting: The story of Covid-19 in Pune

September 27, 2021 4:00:20 am

In the first four months after the pandemic spread to India, there was a complete national lockdown and creation of containment zones across the city, especially in the densely populated Peths of the city. Was this national lockdown necessary? Absolutely.

The quiet party loyalist who never shied away from speaking his mind

September 27, 2021 3:56:37 am

Nabha replaced Fatehgarh Sahib MLA Kuljit Singh Nagra, Rahul Gandhi's aide

Despite having highest Dalit population, no cabinet berth from any Doaba Dalit MLA

September 27, 2021 3:47:43 am

Doaba has also got the highest proportion of Dalit population not only in Punjab. but across the country.

IAF officer held for sexually assaulting colleague: cops

September 27, 2021 3:45:21 am

According to police, the lady officer filed the complaint against the accused with local police after she felt that the complaint she raised internally wasn’t handled in a satisfying manner.

AAP: Congress has just changed ‘Ali Baba’, retained his 40 thieves

September 27, 2021 3:40:39 am

Cheema said that before this, Captain Amarinder Singh, and his cronies, had looted a lot of Punjab in four-and-a-half years.

‘Conversion racket’ in UP: Three more arrested

September 27, 2021 3:24:05 am

The three were identified as Mohammad Saleem and Mohammad Idrish Qureshi — both residents of Muzaffarnagar — and Kunal Ashok Chaudhary alias Atif from Nasik in Maharashtra.

Le Corbusier: The curator of Chandigarh’s urban landscape

September 27, 2021 3:23:06 am

Chandigarh was also the first complete realisation of Le Corbusier’s urban precepts and the surrounding landscape.

Servant drugs woman employer, makes off with cash, jewellery

September 27, 2021 3:12:04 am

The suspect is identified as Rinku. The house was allotted to the doctor husband of the victim woman.

Azad group opposes Mohali civic body’s move to allot land for keeping cattle

September 27, 2021 3:07:29 am

The Azad group’s councillor Sukhdev Singh Patwari on Sunday alleged that the intention behind allotment of land was not good.

UP: Pratapgarh clash Circle Officer suspended; 5 FIRs against Cong leaders

September 27, 2021 3:07:18 am

Police had earlier booked senior Congress leader Pramod Tiwari and his daughter Aradhna Mishra, Congress MLA and leader of Congress Legislative Party, for attempt to murder.

I’m being threatened: Dalit pradhan’s husband who complained of caste discrimination in UP village school

September 27, 2021 7:28:11 am

When contacted by The Indian Express, Singh said that he was being threatened by the Thakurs of his village after he complained that utensils of Scheduled Castes schoolchildren used for their mid-day meals were kept apart on the premises, and washed by the children themselves.