NEW DELHI: As both day and night temperatures continued to remain high on Wednesday, Delhiites reeled under both heatwave and warm night conditions. The city experienced the warmest April night in three years, with the minimum temperature rising to 25.6 degrees Celsius, six degrees above normal, on Wednesday at base station Safdarjung. It was 22.4…
NEW DELHI: India has disallowed transshipment of cargo from Bangladesh to third countries, dealing a blow to Dhaka exporting apparel through air freighters, largely from Delhi.Global brands such as Zara, which use the route to meet their international need, will have to rework their sourcing strategy. The customs circular, issued Tuesday, said cargo that had…
NEW DELHI: Tahawwur Rana, one of the main plotters of the 2008 Mumbai attack, had contacted David Coleman Headley 231 times during his visits to India ahead of the 26/11 carnage, according to the Indian dossier on him. Rana conducted eight reconnaissance missions and the highest number of calls (66) were made during the final…
IIMA director Bharat Bhasker (extreme left) New Delhi: IIM Ahmedabad’s move to establish its first international campus in Dubai marks a bold step toward global leadership in management education. Director Professor Bharat Bhasker speaks exclusively with the TOI on tailored programmes, strategic partnerships, and cutting-edge pedagogy, and the institute’s aim to serve regional needs while…
NEW DELHI: With India generating about 150-500 million tonne of construction & demolition waste every year which poses serious challenges including air and water pollution, the Centre has notified rules to manage and recycle it under an extended producer responsibility (EPR) framework that makes it mandatory for every producer to dispose and manage such waste…
LUCKNOW: A 41-year-old Ugandan woman, Anita Nabafu Wamukuta, was arrested and sent to jail on Wednesday after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered 34 capsules containing narcotic substances from her abdomen.The woman arrived in Lucknow via Dubai from Uganda on Saturday and was kept under medical observation for four days. Wamukuta, who had ingested…
AHMEDABAD: Sachin Pilot and Shashi Tharoor got the pride of place at the AICC session here. While the Rajasthan leader was given the opportunity to place the party’s resolution before the massive gathering with a speech, the Kerala MP and diplomat-turned-politician Tharoor got the prime place of seconding the resolution. MP and AICC general secretary…
NEW DELHI: With interesting electoral battles coming up in Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam over the next one year, the Election Commission has stepped up preparedness of its grassroots functionaries by conducting a two-day training programme for district election officers (DEOs) and electoral registration officers (EROs) from West Bengal as well as…
NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old woman, who has been married twice, has found love again, but this time with a higher secondary school student. In Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha district, the woman, previously known as Shabnam, adopted Hinduism and married a 12th-grade student in a temple on Wednesday, according to police officials. Circle Officer Deep Kumar Pant…
Prominent voices from academia, policy, business, and social sectors discussed strategies during the conference for fostering gender equity and women-led development in conference. NEW DELHI: The Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) Cell organised an international conference on women’s empowerment across various domains. In a two-day conference, distinguished speakers from academic, policy, entrepreneurial, and social sectors were…
