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Jaipur: Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma Monday warned officials against delaying development projects and welfare schemes, saying negligence would not be tolerated and directed disciplinary action against officers in multiple cases while reviewing projects worth Rs 15,890 crore under the state’s Raj Unnati initiative.”Completing development projects within the timeline and ensuring people benefit on time is the primary responsibility of every official. No excuses for delays or negligence will be accepted,” Sharma said while chairing the seventh Raj Unnati meeting at the Chief Minister’s Office.The CM ordered charge sheets against supervisory officers after women associated with a Rajeevika cluster in…
Nagpur: Two of Vidarbha’s most prominent spiritual centres — the Chakradhar Swami temple in Katol and Sant Gadge Baba’s samadhi in Amravati — are set for a ₹66.75 crore makeover, with the state clearing projects aimed at improving pilgrim facilities. The revised development plans were approved at a meeting of the state-level committee chaired by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai.The approvals include ₹41.75 crore for the historic Katol temple complex in Nagpur district and ₹25 crore for the samadhi site in Amravati. The two projects account for more than half of the ₹115.30 crore approved for three pilgrimage centres…
Kolkata: Increase in working hours does not automatically trigger a right to get double the pay, Calcutta High Court ruled on Monday, rejecting demands of mint workers after their weekly working hours were increased from 37.5 hours to 44 hours.The mint workers had challenged a National Industrial Tribunal order turning down their demand for an additional 19% hike over and above the pay hike under the fifth pay commission.A division bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Rai Chattopadhyay noted that with an increase in work hours, salary was also increased as per the fifth pay commission. Hence, the workers…
Srinagar, Jul 20: In view of incessant rainfall and prevailing inclement weather conditions, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Akshay Labroo, who is also the Chairman of the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Monday chaired a comprehensive review meeting at Meeting Hall of DC Office Complex to assess the preparedness and mitigation measures put in place by all line departments across the district in view of the inclement weather forecast & prevailing weather conditions.The meeting was attended by Additional District Development Commissioner, Rifat Aftab Qureshi, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mir Imtiyaz Ul Aziz, CEO DDMA, Aadil Fareed, IAS Probationer, Alfred Thomas, Regional…
A feud has erupted between senior Trump administration officials and a top executive at Sam Altman’s OpenAI. In a series of public attacks, Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael slammed OpenAI’s Head of Strategic Futures Dean W. Ball, calling him the industry’s “supreme village idiot”. The exchange was triggered by comments Ball made regarding how the US government should handle the rising threat of open-source Chinese AI models, following the launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.What caused the feudThe controversy began over the weekend when Ball, a former White House architect of the administration’s AI Action Plan who recently joined…
BMC hopes to begin construction next month Mumbai: BMC plans to integrate the city’s first seawater desalination plant at Manori with Mumbai’s existing water distribution network through a 7.2km underground tunnel to Charkop and further to Mahavir Nagar in Kandivli.A proposal seeking approval to award the contract at Rs 2,241.3 crore to Afcons Infrastructure Ltd for its design, construction and operation as well as for associated infrastructure is scheduled to be placed before the civic standing committee on Wednesday. The water tunnel alone will account for more than half the estimated cost of the Rs 4,077-crore desalination project at Manori.BMC…
NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) march towards Parliament on Monday, demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the alleged NEET exam paper leak, descended into chaos as thousands of protesters clashed with police.More than 170 people, including police personnel and protesters, were injured in the clashes. Seventy people were detained, and police said an FIR was being registered on charges of rioting, assault on public servants, and damage to public property.Police said that at around 10.30 am, protesters gathered at Jantar Mantar attempted to breach welded barricades, forcing officers to resort to a lathicharge. Police…
A young man was critically injured after being mistaken for a rival gang member. BENGALURU: A violent gang rivalry on the outskirts of the city took a tragic turn when an innocent youth was allegedly attacked with machetes by a group that mistook him for a rival member. The victim, who had no connection to the feud, is now battling for his life at a private hospital.19-year-old Rakshith, a resident of Balagaranahalli village near Anekal taluk, was attacked Saturday night while having fish with his friends at a stall near Old Chandapura Circle, under the jurisdiction of Suryanagar police.Based on…
OpenAI Appoints Hyderabad’s Uday Rudraraju as CTO of Compute Team Hyderabad: The city added another name to its list of global tech leaders, with Hyderabad’s Uday Rudraraju taking over as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at OpenAI. His elevation comes nearly a year after he joined the company, following a stint as head of infrastructure engineering at Elon Musk’s xAI.His journey from the classrooms at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT) to the US started in 2011 when he secured a seat at the University of Minnesota for a master’s in computer science engineering.Since then, he has worked at multiple firms…