Rakesh Gangwal, the co-founder of IndiGo Airlines, has committed to contributing Rs 100 crore to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur). The funds will be utilized for the School of Medical Sciences and Technology, a new school that IIT Kanpur is already building. File PhotoThe commitment extended by Rakesh Gangwal is in…Continue Reading
MUMBAI: Data on the face mask mandate for Mumbaikars, imposed in April 2020 and lifted this past Saturday, shows close to 46 lakh people were penalised and Rs 92 crore was collected as fines for flouting it. During the peak of the pandemic, the BMC chief, in a circular, had said, “It has been observed…Continue Reading
Representative imageNEW DELHI: The Russia-Ukraine war has hit the country’s agriculture sector the hardest with fertiliser prices skyrocketing in the international market, a top government functionary said on Monday, adding this is likely to raise India’s fertiliser subsidy burden alone to upwards of Rs 2 lakh crore this fiscal, about Rs 1 lakh crore more…Continue Reading
Residents were ordered to evacuate an apartment building in North Miami Beach, Florida, after engineers found the five-story structure unsafe, a discovery that comes months after the deadly condo building collapse in nearby Surfside. A firm hired by the owners of Bayview 60 Homes to help bring the building up to regulation for its upcoming…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — Key Senate leaders struck an agreement Monday on bipartisan legislation to provide $10 billion in Covid response funding that no longer includes money for overseas efforts to fight the virus.In the agreement, announced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, $5 billion would be designated for therapeutics, with…Continue Reading
More than 500 people in the U.S. were killed or wounded in road-rage shootings in 2021, the “worst year on record” for gun violence on streets and highways, according to analysis released Monday by Everytown for Gun Safety.It’s unclear what’s causing the rise in violence on the road, but gun-safety advocates suggest pandemic-related stressors and…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Senate plans to move forward on Monday with the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after a tie vote in committee.The Judiciary Committee deadlocked on a party-line vote of 11 to 11 with all Democrats voting yes and all Republicans voting no.The tie means Jackson is stuck in committee…Continue Reading
When the news broke that the upstart Amazon Labor Union had made history by winning its union election at Amazon’s sprawling JFK8 fulfillment center, labor experts were as jubilant as they were puzzled. How had this group of Staten Island warehouse workers, who had decided to form their own independent organization instead of trying to…Continue Reading
A mother riding an all-terrain vehicle with her family died Saturday when it submerged in water, according to Pennsylvania authorities.Jamie Uchic, 37, of Jermyn, Pennsylvania, was killed in an accidental drowning at Aylesworth Park, the Lackawanna County Coroner’s Office told NBC News on Monday.The park is in Archbald, about 115 miles northwest of Newark, New…Continue Reading
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has dropped out of Coachella, leaving the festival without a headliner slot weeks before it starts, according to TMZ, citing sources close to the performer.It is unclear why Ye reportedly canceled his performance abruptly. The festival, which takes place in Indio, California, is scheduled for later this month, on…Continue Reading
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