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The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Tamil Nadu has released the Tamil Nadu Lateral Entry Admissions (TNLEA) 2026 rank list. Candidates who registered for the counselling process can now check and download the rank list by visiting the official website, tnlea.com.To access the TNLEA 2026 rank list, candidates will have to log in using their registered email ID and password.The authority has also started the TNLEA 2026 special counselling from July 16 to July 17, 2026. During the counselling process, eligible candidates will have to complete online registration, document verification, choice filling, seat allotment and admission confirmation through the official…

Navi Mumbai International Airport formally launched its overseas operations on Wednesday Mumbai: Mumbai’s long-standing disadvantage in international air connectivity compared with Delhi is expected to ease with the opening of Navi Mumbai International Airport’s international terminal, although industry executives say that a meaningful expansion of overseas routes will take time.While Delhi offers direct flights to around 70 international destinations, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport has non-stop connectivity to about 50 foreign cities, said a source. Flying from Mumbai then is no different than flying from, say, Mangalore or Madurai, when it comes to cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, Toronto, Milan,…

Kirari residents endure sewage-laden water and illness after recent heavy monsoon rains. NEW DELHI: Nearly a week after the season’s heaviest rain lashed the city, many houses in northwest Delhi’s Kirari remain surrounded by sewage-laden water, public parks resemble filthy lakes, and children cannot attend flooded schools.“We are living in hell,” said 70-year-old Sushila, whose son, a three-year-old granddaughter and a five-year-old grandson have fallen ill. She has placed bricks across the floor of her house to create a walkway as water has inundated it. Snakes have been entering the house, forcing the family to be on its toes. Parks…

Rishad Premji, Chairman, Wipro Bengaluru: Enterprises have moved beyond experimenting with artificial intelligence and are now embedding the technology into core business processes, marking a shift from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, Wipro chairman Rishad Premji said on Wednesday.“We believe AI represents one of the most fundamental shifts of our time,” Premji told shareholders at Wipro’s 80th annual general meeting on Wednesday. “The focus is shifting from experimentation to execution. AI is changing the economics and speed of modernisation and software engineering, creating new opportunities for growth.”However, he cautioned that enterprise AI adoption is far more complex than simply deploying AI…

Hyderabad: Granting temporary relief to Pradeep Constructions, Telangana high court on Wednesday ordered GHMC not to take any coercive action against the project, BLISS residential project, at Somajiguda till July 23.The civic body had on July 7 issued notices to the developer, stating that the multi-storied buildings of the residential project were constructed in the full tank level (FTL) of Hussainsagar, and obtained permissions by suppressing facts. It proposed to demolish the high-rise.Justice Pulla Karthik, while posting the matter to July 23 for further hearing, also directed respondent authorities to file their counters in the case.Appearing for the firm, senior…

The crop is cultivated over a period of 100 to 105 days between April and July. Chennai: Inadequate irrigation supply has forced farmers in the Cauvery delta to scale down kuruvai, the short-duration paddy crop, by nearly one lakh acres this season, with Nagapattinam, Ariyalur, Trichy, Thiruvarur and Thanjavur among the worst-affected districts. Against the average coverage of 4.4 lakh acres recorded over the past five years, kuruvai cultivation has been taken up on only 3.47 lakh acres this year, said sources from agriculture department. The crop is cultivated over a period of 100 to 105 days between April and…

Ahmedabad: With a change of jurisdiction for criminal courts in the city, the special courts for cheque return cases will hear only those complaints filed by financial institutions. Individual complainants will have to approach the regular criminal courts at Gheekanta.An office order issued by chief judicial magistrate (CJM) D H Khambhat on Wednesday states that due to enormous pendency of institutional complaints before special Negotiable Instruments Act courts, “it has become administratively necessary to rationalise the distribution of judicial business so as to ensure balanced allocation of work, effective utilisation of available judicial resources and expeditious disposal of cases”.The CJM…

Saxena has previously worked with international conservation bodies, including IUCN and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, and was a lead author of the 2018 IPBES Global Assessment on Land Degradation and Restoration. GURGAON: When countries seek UNESCO World Heritage status for forests, national parks and other natural sites, their nominations undergo an independent scientific review before reaching the World Heritage Committee.For the 2027 round of nominations, one of those reviewers will be Haryana’s Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, Dr Vivek Saxena.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), UNESCO’s advisory body on natural heritage, has selected the 1991-batch…

Shillong: An unattended bag and trolley at a parking area in Khyndailad’s busy Police Bazaar triggered a bomb scare on Wednesday morning.Police rushed to the spot, cordoned off the area and stopped vehicles as a precaution.Before a bomb disposal team arrived, the owner returned and claimed the items, ending the scare. Police said he parked the trolley and bag while heading to the MUDA complex for work and forgot to pick them up.After verifying his identity and recording his statement, police found nothing suspicious in the bag and reopened the road to traffic.City police have urged the public to promptly…

Jhansi: Sub-inspector (Armed Police) Kamlesh Kumar, posted at the Reserve Police Lines in Jhansi, died here on Wednesday after his health suddenly deteriorated.According to police, Kumar, 59, felt unwell in the morning and was immediately taken by his family members to the district hospital for treatment. However, doctors declared him dead upon examination. Following the incident, the mandatory inquest and post-mortem procedures were carried out as per rules.As per CO city Ramveer Singh, the deceased S-I was accorded with a ceremonial farewell with full state honours. Senior police officers and personnel paid tribute to the deceased officer with a guard…