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Image Credit: Rajesh Mehta/ TOI NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old call centre employee was found dead inside an open construction pit in west Delhi’s Janakpuri on Thursday morning, hours after telling his family that he would reach home in ten minutes. The victim, Kamal Dhyani, had left his Rohini office late on February 5 and went missing shortly thereafter, prompting an overnight search by family and police. Weeks After Noida Techie’s Death, Delhi Biker Dies After Falling Into Pit Dug By Jal Board His motorcycle was later recovered from the pit, raising questions over civic safety and the handling of the…

Gangavathi (Koppal): The Gangavathi additional district and sessions court Thursday convicted all three accused in the rape-murder case in which two foreign tourists and three Indian citizens accompanying them were attacked near Hampi. The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on Feb 16.The crime occurred on the night of March 6, last year, near Sanapur Lake in Gangavathi taluk, about 25 km from the Unesco World Heritage site of Hampi. According to the police, the victims — two women and three men, who had met at a homestay — were stargazing near the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal when the…

Hyderabad: Hyderabad has emerged as the weakest link in Telangana’s ongoing preparatory exercise to clean up and verify electoral rolls, recording the lowest mapping coverage in the state at just 28% under the pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.The figures have highlighted a stark urban-rural divide in voter verification, with election officials pointing to high migration and frequent changes of residence in city constituencies as the primary reasons.While Telangana has achieved an overall 53% mapping progress, Hyderabad lagged far behind. After the capital, the lowest coverage was recorded in Medchal Malkajgiri (30%), Rangareddy (44%), Warangal (45%), Sangareddy (46%) and Nizamabad (53%).…

Chennai: AIADMK and BJP have stepped up attack on TVK president Vijay after the Madras High Court order upheld the Rs 1.5 crore penalty imposed on him by the Income Tax department for not voluntarily disclosing his additional income in the year 2015 – 16.AIADMK and BJP questioned Vijay’s claim of offering a corruption-free governance `when he had violated law by concealing his income.’Chennai: Avian Flu Advisory, I-T To Auction Jayalalithaa Assets, EV Investment Plan And More”Only now the whistle has started blowing,” BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran said said implying Vijay would be facing more setbacks in the coming…

Gandhinagar: Tourists from 52 countries regularly visit the Chhari Dhand wetland area in Kutch district, which was designated as Gujarat’s fifth Ramsar site, the state govt said on Friday.State forest and environment minister Arjun Modhwadia on Friday presented the Ramsar site certificate to chief minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar.Chhari Dhand is a wetland located between desert and grasslands, attracting thousands of migratory birds annually, including the globally significant Grey hypocolius. In 2008, Chhari Dhand was declared a conservation reserve under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.Tour operators and ornithologists reported that over 80% of visitors to Chhari Dhand were from…

10 yrs ago, selling a supercar in Odisha was almost unheard of. Now, dealers get 2-3 inquiries every quarter. As disposable income increases & roads improve, TOI looks at how the luxury car market is growing in the stateOdisha’s luxury car market witnessed a dramatic acceleration in 2025, signalling a clear shift in the aspirations of its growing urban elite. Once considered a marginal segment, the premium and super‑luxury car category has expanded rapidly across Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela and Sambalpur — with even rare badges like Lamborghini making brief appearances on Odisha’s roads. The India–European Union trade deal signed recently…

GURGAON: Four NCR cities dominated India’s pollution rankings through Jan, as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) hovered in the ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ range on most days, leaving residents breathing air close to 10 times dirtier than the World Health Organisation’s safer limit.A monthly analysis report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found Ghaziabad, Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon among the country’s most polluted cities for the month, underlining how winter smog remained stubborn across the NCR region.Gurgaon ranked fourth nationally. Here, PM2.5 stayed ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ on 25 of 31 days, with a monthly mean…

Shillong: Promotion and incubation of market-driven enterprises (PRIME) Meghalaya has marked a major milestone in the state’s entrepreneurship journey by on-boarding 75 start-ups under the CM’s E-Championship Challenge (CMECC) 6.0 and graduating another 75 start-ups from Cohort 5.“With around 5,000 entrepreneurs supported to date, Rs 200 crore disbursed, and nearly 7,000 direct jobs created, PRIME continues to position entrepreneurship as a key driver of economic growth and employment in Meghalaya,” said a statement by Meghalaya Basin Management Agency (MBMA) on Thursday. Piyush Goyal Says Startup India Generated Over 21 Lakh Jobs, Credits PM Modi Islamabad Suicide Blast, Bangladesh Crisis, RBI’s…

Bidar: In Dakulagi village in Humanabad taluk of the district, for the last 3–4 days, a strange noise was heard from the earth. Mild tremors were felt and villagers have grown anxious over this development.In the village, not only during the day but also late at night, strange noises were heard from the ground, and the walls of the houses shook in some places. When the sounds were heard, children and old people were taken out of their houses to open spaces. Due to this, people spent their days in constant fear and anxiety.Islamabad Suicide Blast, Bangladesh Crisis, RBI’s Fraud…

Kanpur: A dispute arose between real brothers over land and passage through the house gallery in the Friends Colony police station area in Etawah on Thursday. Police reached the spot after receiving information and took six people, including three women, into custody for breach of peace. Before they were presented before the city magistrate, the health of one woman, identified as Sulochana (40), wife of Satyendra Singh, deteriorated on reaching the hospital. She was admitted to the district hospital for treatment. She was treated under the supervision of Dr Raghavendra Singh, who said, “After treatment, the woman’s condition has improved.”…