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international airport in Hosur promises significant benefits for Bengaluru’s IT corridor, Electronics City, and nearby areas close to the Tamil Nadu border. The commute from Electronics City to Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), located over 60 kilometers away, is challenging at times due to increasing traffic congestion and the lack of a robust mass transit system. Industrialists in Hosur have long advocated for an airport to boost the region's growth.

Pankaj Tripathi recently reacted to Panchayat star Pankaj Jha’s allegations that he romanticized being an outsider and attempted to whitewash his struggles. The Mirzapur actor had always been open about struggling to get acting projects and steady work in Bollywood, and how his wife decided to be the bread winner for the time being while he hustled in the city of dreams.

Mint ahead of the upcoming full-year budget for 2024-25. Simplifying the taxes and promoting Indian tourism in overseas markets more aggressively would revive interest in India among foreign travellers, said Kalra, also the founder-mentor of online travel platform MakeMyTrip. Edited excerpts from the interview: The country’s tourism sector has moved beyond the pandemic, and we expect inbound, domestic and outbound tourism to surpass 2019 levels by the end of 2024, but maintaining economic stability and controlling inflation will be crucial for sustaining India’s tourism growth.

Most of my life, I didn’t need tourism. The first time I went on a vacation was when I was 27, and it was just about 20km across the bay from Mumbai, where I lived. But, finally, I was on this famous thing called a vacation.

Delhi, including four citizens who drowned in submerged underpasses, the Times of India reported, while flight operations stuttered in the Indian capital.

Bihar will roll out the red carpet for domestic and foreign investors at a mega event in December as it looks to lure investments in sectors like textiles, food processing and EVs that will create jobs and boost business in the state. After the grand success of the 2023 edition, the state will host the two-day Bihar Business Connect event on December 11 and 12 in Patna. And before that, it will hold roadshows in different cities, beginning with Kolkata on Monday.

Looking for the sexiest, most fun-loving destination in France this summer? Avert your eyes from Saint-Tropez and look farther east to Nice, dismissed for too long as a retirement community for Europe’s aristocracy. You’ll still spot plenty of heavily tanned white-haired people walking alarmingly over-groomed dogs on the famous seaside Promenade des Anglais. These days, however, they’re joined by joggers, skateboarders and cyclists taking advantage of the countless new bike lanes that have been created since 2008.

GAIL (India) Ltd said. The 3,306-kilometre Jagdishpur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra pipeline was originally targeted for completion by June 2024. But due to «delay in right of use (RoU) availability», the completion schedule has been revised «from June 2024 to March 2025», GAIL said in a stock exchange filing.

Delhi is likely to witness heavy rain on Sunday, with the Indian Meteorological Department issuing an 'orange' alert for the city till July 2. The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius, 0.9 notches below the season's average.

Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek said emergency crews are nearing the final stages of restoring full water use after a massive feeder main break that has impacted the city’s waterlines for almost one month.

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued fresh guidelines for the issuance of CGHS Card to serving government employees and pensioners, according to an Office Memorandum (OM) issued on June 27. The revised guidelines have been issued in view of technological changes and changes in payment methods of contribution for the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the OM further said.

James Hetfield, has talked about the extreme measures the band used to survive in the early 1980s. Hetfield talked about recording their iconic albums 'Master of Puppets' (1986) and 'Ride The Lightning' (1984) at Copenhagen's Sweet Silence Studios in a recent episode of the official podcast, 'The Metallica Report'. Hetfield revealed that during their time in Copenhagen, the band resorted to theft to make ends meet, as per the reports of 'Yahoo Entertainment'.

UK's Opposition Labour Party, hoping to win a mandate to form a government after the July 4 general election, has committed itself to stamping out anti-India sentiments within its ranks and building a strong strategic partnership with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led administration. The party's resolution during an annual conference under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in favour of international intervention in Kashmir was widely seen as having cost it British Indian votes in the 2019 general election.

Joe Biden as the official presidential nominee of the Democratic party. This is after his “terrible” performance in the first US Presidential debate on Thursday. Though this may not be possible, some people are looking at potential candidates who could replace Biden. One such candidate is Gavin Newsom who is presently the Governor of the state of California, the hi-tech state of the US and home to the Silicon Valley. He is a supporter of Biden and may seem to be the ideal presidential nominee. However, there are several critics who are likely oppose his nomination, if at all Biden is replaced.

Bihar, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh asked if Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would actually walk the talk on the issue. He also questioned NDA partner Telugu Desam Party for not pressing for the special category status for Andhra Pradesh.

Concorde, a Bengaluru-based real estate developer has acquired a 1.6-acre land parcel located on Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru. Set to be a premium residential complex, this joint development will have a gross development value (GDV) of Rs 200 crore. In March, Concorde acquired a 4.5 acre land in Thanisandra, Bengaluru. The strategic acquisition was facilitated by real estate consulting firm, Colliers India, and marks a significant milestone for Concorde as it continues to expand its footprint in the city.

Graphic detail page.THE GLOBAL cost-of-living crisis that began in 2022 is now so much part of daily life that it is entering the vernacular. “Cozzie livs", British slang for the crisis, was recently named Australia’s word of the year by the Macquarie Dictionary. The latest Worldwide Cost of Living survey by EIU, our sister company, confirms that inflation remains high worldwide: the prices of 200 products and services that it tracks rose by an average of 7.4% over the past year.

CBI was conducting searches at seven location in Gujarat in the NEET-UG paper leak case, officials said on Saturday. They said the operation began in the morning at the premises of suspects spread across four districts — Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad and Godhra. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested the principal and the vice-principal of a school in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh and a journalist of a Hindi newspaper in connection with the National-Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test — Undergraduate (NEET-UG) paper leak, officials had said. Ehsanul Haque, the principal of Oasis School, was made the city coordinator of Hazaribagh for the medical entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on May 5, they said.

The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongly accused of shoplifting

Delhi on Saturday, a day after the monsoon arrived in the national capital with the heaviest rainfall in 88 years. Rohini and Burari were among the areas that received rainfall this morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast generally cloudy skies with heavy rain during the day. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 32 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.