NEW DELHI: There is a need to write the “intent” of policies, regulations and guidelines in brief while notifying them, a move that will bring clarity and communicate what it aims to achieve, suggested D Thara, secretary of newly created department of capital development under the housing and urban affairs ministry.Speaking at a conference of…
Restored living shoreline along the Chesapeake Bay. Source: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center Tons of crushed concrete from Baltimore’s former Memorial Stadium are getting a second life as the foundation for a growing coastal ecosystem along the Chesapeake Bay. In 2002, environmental engineers placed thousands of cubic yards of clean stadium rubble along the shores of…
Prajakta Mali sells her Goregaon flat for Rs 1.12 crore days after buying a Rs 6.42 crore home – Report Prajakta Mali, one of the most popular and recognisable faces in the Marathi film and television industry, has reportedly sold her Mumbai apartment for Rs 1.12 crore, marking a notable real estate transaction. The deal…
A child’s bedroom is not only a place to sleep.It gradually becomes their study room, play area, reading corner and personal world. And when all these activities happen in the same room, the objective should not be to fill the space with remedies. It should be to create an environment that makes it easier for…
CHANDIGARH: Ending a prolonged standoff with state employees, the Bhagwant Mann government on Friday announced relief for around eight lakh employees and pensioners, increasing the Dearness Allowance (DA) by 8 per cent.The decision followed a meeting held here between chief minister Bhagwant Mann and representatives of employee and pensioners’ organisations.Ministers Aman Arora and Baljeet Kaur,…
Rideshare giant Uber and one of its drivers have been ordered by an arbitrator to pay $40 million in damages to the parents of a 23-year-old woman, Emily Normandin-Parker, who was struck and killed by traffic after the cab driver kicked her and her friend out of the cab on a California freeway. The ruling,…
Santosh Davakhar, director of ‘Gondhal’, on film becoming India’s official Oscar entry: ‘We have a rich culture and heritage, and we should represent India through good cinema’ Marathi filmmaker Santosh Davakhar has spoken about his film ‘Gondhal’, which has now been chosen as India’s official submission for the 99th Academy Awards. Built around the traditional…
Your office desk is more than a place where you keep your laptop.For many professionals and entrepreneurs, it is where they spend 8 to 10 hours every day, make important decisions, speak to clients, handle money and build their careers. Yet, the desk often becomes the most ignored space in the office.Here are five common…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday claimed that its candidate for the upcoming Nandigram assembly bypoll, Milan Pradhan, has been arrested, with the development coming hours after the TMC’s Mamata Banerjee faction extended its support to the Congress for the October 6 byelection.According to a senior leader of the Congress’ West Bengal unit, Pradhan was…
Harsh Jaiswal (left) and Rahul Maini. Three Indian-origin cybersecurity researchers, Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati and Rahul Maini, demonstrated how Anthropic’s Claude AI could be used to exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to OpenAI employee accounts and the company’s internal code repository, Wall Street Journal reported.The researchers, who work at cybersecurity startup Hacktron AI, carried out…
