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Cheng² Duo will perform at Mazda Hall on Tuesday, August 18, at 7 pm, in a concert organised by the Poona Music Society. Pune: Music, for siblings Bryan and Silvie Cheng, is as much about connection as about performance. The cello-piano duo’s band Cheng² Duo will perform in Pune on Tuesday, Aug 18, at a concert organised by the Poona Music Society at Mazda Hall, with works by Janáček, Nadia Boulanger, Poulenc and Mussorgsky.“This programme is an exploration of the full sound palette available to our instruments. Cello and piano have arguably the widest ranges of any duet combination, as…
Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini Chandigarh: Haryana is racing to fast-track major industrial and logistics projects as the state seeks to position itself as one of the country’s leading manufacturing hubs, chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Monday.Saini made the remarks while participating through videoconference in the third meeting of the Apex Monitoring Authority of the National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust.Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the meeting, with Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal, chief ministers and senior officials in attendance.The meeting reviewed the progress of key industrial and manufacturing projects, including Haryana’s Integrated…
The FIR does not mention the names Champat Rai and former Trust member Anil Mishra. LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh home department has handed over the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) final report in the Ayodhya Ram temple donation theft case to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust for further action, according to an official statement issued on Tuesday.The three-member SIT, headed by Lucknow divisional commissioner Vijay Vishwas Pant, was constituted by the state government on June 13 at the request of the trust, before the Supreme Court intervened in the matter.Range Inspector General Kiran S and Special Secretary (Finance) Neel…
Jaipur: A single judge bench of Rajasthan High Court Monday ordered the state govt to constitute a state-level transfer policy committee to formulate a comprehensive and uniform transfer policy for the state. The court has also ordered the constitution of Departmental Transfer Grievance Committees within seven working days. At the same time, the court has kept the transfer orders of petitioners in the present batch in abeyance for up to 30 days, providing protection until their representations are decided.Justice Sameer Jain issued directions while deciding a batch of petitions challenging transfer orders of govt employees including teachers, engineers and others.Under…
Nagpur: Maharashtra’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration phase concluded on Monday with 78.82% of its 9.78 crore electors digitised and 21.18% categorised as uncollectable as of 9pm of August 17, placing approximately 2.07 crore voters in a pool that could face deletion subject to verification and due process. Together, the two categories accounted for 99.997% of the state electorate at the last available official update.The 9pm figures are being treated as the latest available data for the exercise, which began on June 30, till the time of this news going to the Press. A senior election official said compilation continued…
On Monday, the river’s water level was recorded at 65.80 metres, with an increase at the rate of two centimetres per hour and a rainfall of 10.6 mm in last 24 hours. Varanasi: Boat operations in Varanasi have been suspended again with an immediate effect from Sunday due to the continuous rise in the water level of river Ganga.On Monday, the river’s water level was recorded at 65.80 metres, with an increase at the rate of two centimetres per hour and a rainfall of 10.6 mm in last 24 hours.The administration has suspended boat movement on the Ganga until further…
Kolkata: In the Census exercise, a single house is not always a single household — and an address is certainly not a household number. What matters in Census is not simply who lives under the same roof but who eats from the same kitchen.As enumerators started the door-to-door verification for the house-listing process, Bengal Census director made it clear on Monday that one simple rule to identify a household will be the kitchen.“A single address can have several Census households. Take the case of three brothers living in different portions of the same building. If all three families cook separately…
Quote of the day by Barack Obama (AP photo) Barack Obama’s words draw a genuinely sharp line between simply saying we believe in something, and actually standing by that belief once doing so becomes genuinely difficult. “If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren’t willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all,” he wrote in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. The line is often shared today with the middle clause quietly…
Nail technician Erin, who missed two years of work during her cancer treatment, also has to take on the significant costs involved.”It’s also coming with a financial burden that if I choose to do this, it’s going to impact my near future “It’s £8,000 to do this procedure that I’m going to need to fund myself.”The way it works is you can have multiple cycles to get the best outcome, I will need two cycles to get the correct amount eggs.”If I’d received it before the NHS would have funded it, but because now I’ve had cancer treatment they will…
John Murray: Madjo is a teenage striker Aston Villa fans will know all about already after the goals he has scored for them in pre-season.Born in London to parents from Cameroon, Madjo grew up in Luxembourg and made his senior international debut for them last year. But he has now switched his international allegiance to England and played for the Under-17 team. After a wrangle over that, he was finally cleared to play in competitive matches for Villa, making his competitive debut last week with a goal in the Super Cup against Paris St-Germain. He looks like a big man…