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Surat:The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) has urged chief minister Bhupendra Patel to address a range of infrastructure, power, taxation and policy issues affecting Surat and South Gujarat’s industrial sector.A detailed representation was submitted to the chief minister by SGCCI vice-president Ravi Raj Desai and secretary Paresh Lathiya. The chamber said South Gujarat is among the state’s key industrial growth engines and resolving regional bottlenecks would help boost investment and industrial activity across the state.Improving regional air connectivity from Surat was among the key demands. SGCCI sought 50-70-seater aircraft services on the Surat-Ahmedabad, Surat-Rajkot and Surat-Bhavnagar routes,…

T’puram: Acting on the intervention of State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), the city corporation has deployed a 24-hour airport squad to ensure that no waste is dumped within a 4km-radius of Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.The corporation secretary informed SHRC that round-the-clock surveillance has been put in place following directions issued by panel chairperson Justice Alexander Thomas.SHRC ordered stringent preventive measures while considering a complaint based on media reports about a bird-hit incident involving an Oman Air aircraft near the airport on April 15 last year. The incident had resulted in damage to one of the aircraft’s engines, highlighting concerns over bird…

Police removed loudspeakers from around 1,500 religious institutions across Bengal in two days. KOLKATA: Loudspeakers were removed from around 1,500 religious institutions across Bengal in two days as part of a police crackdown on pollution complaints, report Zeeshan Jawed & Dwaipayan Ghosh. At least 1,279 mosques and 199 temples were ordered to remove loudspeakers for violating prescribed noise limits.Senior police officers said action was being taken “uniformly across religious institutions”. Cops are nudging managements of places of worship to dismantle their public address systems and enforce noise norms in a first-of-its-kind drive in the state. Under Bengal’s Noise Pollution (Regulation…

Srinagar, Aug 5: A delegation of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Jammu & Kashmir UT Council, Skill Development and Women Leadership panels, called on Dr. Shafquat Ara, Principal Government Polytechnic College, Srinagar to explore collaborative avenues for women’s skill development and employment in the automobile sector.The delegation was led by Ufair Ajaz, Convener of the CII J&K Skills Panel and comprised of Khurshid Dar, Director CII J&K. Ridha Rashid, Co-Convener of the CII J&K Women Leadership Panel, Ishfaq Ahmed, Co Convener, CII Panel on Trade and RetailDuring the meeting, Eicher Volvo team gave a presentation on Project Tejaswini, an initiative…

Six family members perished when their old house roof collapsed early Thursday. PRAYAGRAJ: At least six members of a family, including two infants, were killed after the roof of their dilapidated house collapsed amid heavy rainfall in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district early on Thursday. The lone survivor, a 28-year-old man, sustained serious injuries.The incident occurred around 2 am in Mahuli ward under the Kotwali police station limits, when all seven family members were asleep inside the nearly 100-year-old house.Deputy SP (City) Ashutosh Mishra said the ageing structure suddenly gave way, burying the family under the debris. Alerted by neighbours, police,…

The BJP is upset with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Shirsat’s family visit. MUMBAI: The BJP is upset with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena over its minister Sanjay Shirsat visiting Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijit Dipke’s family and meeting them in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.After the BJP expressed displeasure over Shirsat’s meeting the Dipkes, saying it indicated his backing for Dipke, Shinde is said to have given Shirsat a dressing down on Tuesday when the state cabinet meeting was conducted.Speaking on reports that he could be dropped from the cabinet, Shirsat denied there was any reshuffle in the offing.The BJP said…

Delhi’s Lakshmi Yojana hits roadblocks as women struggle to even register (AI image used for representational purpose only). NEW DELHI: Delhi govt’s Lakshmi Yojana, launched Augt 1, promises Rs 2,500 a month for eligible women. But many are getting stuck at the first level – registration.The signature of an MP or legislator, hunt for a decade-old address proof, repeated trips to cyber cafes to fill forms online and no option to correct mistakes on submitted forms have turned the scheme into a process that many can ill-afford.According to senior officials, this is Delhi govt’s only scheme that makes the signature…

Institutional investors drove demand as retail subscription fell marginally short of target Bengaluru: Shares of Manipal Health Enterprises made a strong market debut on Wednesday, closing nearly 13% above their issue price and valuing the hospital chain at nearly Rs 88,000 crore.The stock listed at Rs 655 on the BSE, an 11% premium to its IPO price of Rs 590. It later rose to an intraday high of Rs 676 before closing at Rs 666, up 13% from the issue price. On the NSE, the shares touched a high of Rs 675 and ended at Rs 663, representing a gain…

Hyderabad: Women now outnumber men in Telangana’s higher education classrooms, but the same is not true of the people teaching them. The All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2023-24 shows 9,13,216 women enrolled in higher education institutions against 8,74,244 men, with a total enrolment of 17,87,460. Among faculty, however, 46,360 of the state’s 84,568 teachers are men against 38,208 women. The gap widens a little more at the top: men hold 5,511 of the state’s 7,672 professor positions, while women account for just 2,161 positions.A senior woman professor from a research institute in Hyderabad, who did not wish to…

Chennai: TVK govt’s maiden budget appeared to place youth, education, and sports at the center of its economic vision.The budget announced branded bicycles, helmets, and water bottles for over five lakh Class XI students in govt and govt-aided schools. In a thrust for sports, which again targeted the TVK govt’s key vote base of youth, the budget said 10 Olympic centres would be set up across the state. The budget also announced an Artificial Intelligence city on a 1,000-acre plot. A sum of ₹5 crore has been allotted for the feasibility study of the AI city. The govt also aims…