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Delhi continue to face severe water shortages, forcing them to queue up at water tankers to meet their daily needs. Visuals from Okhla showed people crowding around tankers with cans and buckets. This scene has become a daily occurrence in many parts of the national capital, including Chanakyapuri's Sanjay Camp, Geeta Colony in East Delhi, Patel Nagar, Mehrauli, and Chhatarpur since the start of the summer season. The water crisis in Delhi has sparked widespread protests, vandalism, and political confrontations across the city. Delhi's Water Crisis: Pipeline Inspections Reveal No Leaks

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₹3,360 crore. The money will be used to expand its hospitality businesses and other developing businesses.InterGlobe Enterprises said in an exchange filing on 11 June that “the proceeds will be utilised for scaling up IGE’s hospitality and other businesses it is incubating, as well as for general corporate purposes." On being asked how this money will be put back into the UK company, a spokesperson said this was the only statement it had on the sale of shares.

BENGALURU , MUMBAI : Quick-commerce company Zepto is looking to set up bigger dark stores so it can stock a larger assortment of products, according to two people aware of the company's plans. The development comes as the online grocery platform seeks to move big-time into non-grocery delivery, and as investors queue up to buy a stake in the four-year-old startup.

Sri Lankan community in New York City probably gravitated to Staten Island, just below Manhattan because of cheaper rents, but there might be other reasons why the place feels familiar. One of the best ways to get a good meal in New York is to board the Staten Island ferry. It’s free, you pass the Statue of Liberty and at the other end are a bunch of great Sri Lankan restaurants. You can savour their curries with their distinctive deeply roasted spices and the underlying umami note from the grated dried tuna called Maldi fish, enjoy the hoppers (appams) and rich coconut rice and finish with one of the best desserts ever, thick yoghurt with kithul (fishtail palm syrup). And you can wonder why Staten Island has more Sri Lankan restaurants than all of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third swearing-in saw heads of neighbouring South Asian countries appear as guests. It might have been more meaningful without the one obvious omission, but it still seemed a gesture towards something that has almost vanished — the idea of South Asia beyond just how the countries affect each other on a political level. There are links of history, geography, cultural exchange, personal histories, environmental connections and, yes, food that also count in the South Asian space.

After inspecting the pipeline, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Lokendra Sirohi said, «There is no leakage here. If there is any leakage, we will inform the Jal Board and our control room.» This comes after Delhi Minister Atishi on Sunday wrote a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora, urging the deployment of police personnel to protect major pipelines in the national capital.

₹3 per litre, reaching ₹102.84 in Bengaluru, up from the previous rate of ₹99.84. Similarly, diesel prices have increased by ₹3.02 per litre, now costing ₹88.95, up from ₹85.93.

South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri said that the people can do anything when they are angry and it's natural. The water crisis in Delhi has sparked widespread protests, vandalism, and intense political confrontations across the city. The Delhi Jal Board office was vandalised by some BJP workers in the Chhatarpur area on Sunday. Referring to this, Bidhuri said, «It is natural. People can do anything when they are angry. I am grateful to the workers who controlled those people. It is the government's and the people's property. There is no benefit in damaging this property. I appeal to people to not vandalise public property.»

Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi on Sunday alleged that the BJP's former South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri attacked the Delhi Jal Board office in Chhatarpur along with some goons as the ongoing water crisis in the national capital takes centre stage. The water crisis in Delhi has sparked widespread protests, vandalism, and intense political confrontations across the city. The Delhi Jal Board office was vandalized by some BJP workers in the Chhatarpur area on Sunday. While addressing a press conference in the national capital, Atishi said, «Delhi is currently facing severe heat. Even in this difficult time, the BJP has left no stone unturned, troubling the people of Delhi. The BJP is hatching a conspiracy against the people of Delhi. This conspiracy has three parts. The first part of this is to stop the water supply to Delhi from the BJP government of Haryana. Due to this not even a drop of water is left at the Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant.»

—Arindam MukhopadhyayWe assume that you are in employment and are paid a house rent allowance (HRA) by your employer. As per the provisions of the Income Tax Act, exemption towards HRA received from an employer can be claimed subject to fulfilment of the following conditions:1) The residential accommodation for which rent is being paid should be actually occupied by the assessee;2) The assessee has incurred actual expenditure towards payment of rent for said accommodation; and3) The said accommodation is not owned by the assessee.These provisions do not expressly stipulate that the HRA exemption would not be available if the assessee owns another house in the same city and earns rental income from the same.However, such claims may be prone to scrutiny by the income tax authorities.

Sales of affordable homes — priced up to Rs 60 lakh each — declined 4 per cent in eight major cities to 61,121 units during January-March this year on lower supply and higher demand for luxury apartments, according to PropEquity. The top eight cities are — Delhi-NCR, Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad. Real estate data analytic firm PropEquity data showed that sales of homes, costing up to Rs 60 lakh each stood at 6,3787 units in the January-March period of the last calendar year. A lower supply of affordable homes is one of the key factors for this marginal fall in sales.

Petrol pump owners across Delhi have issued a warning to shut down Pollution Under Control (PUC) certification centres starting July 1, citing unaddressed financial challenges. Despite persistent appeals since 2015, the fees for issuing PUC certificates have remained unchanged for over 12 years, rendering operations unsustainable, according to the Delhi Petrol Traders’ Association (DPDA), a TOI report stated. In a letter addressed to Delhi’s transport commissioner, DPDA expressed their longstanding concerns, stating, «PUC certification centres earlier operated on wafer thin margins for many years and have for the last few years operated on losses...While the spiralling costs and other expenses, which have jumped several fold, have been brought to your notice several times in the past, non-revision of PUC checking rates and the consequent unviability is forcing us to close our centres across Delhi from July 1.» Currently, Delhi hosts nearly 650 PUC centres, situated at various petrol and diesel stations throughout the city. Customers are charged Rs 60 for two-wheelers, Rs 80 for petrol cars, and Rs 100 for diesel vehicles (excluding 18% GST) for PUC checks. «The last time the rates were revised was in Dec 2011. In the last 12 years, the minimum wages of a skilled worker have gone up by nearly three times, the oil companies have started charging exorbitant rents for these centres and the overhead charges such as maintenance of the equipment have also increased,» DPDA President Nischal Singhania told TOI.

₹20,000 crore to about 100 million farmers. This was probably a way to convey to India’s poor that contrary to what they may have thought, they were his priority. Indian elections are often the revenge of the poor.

A number of analysts attribute the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) underperformance in the general election to voter unhappiness with the Narendra Modi government over unemployment, job reservations and farmer livelihoods. The Agnipath scheme of military recruitment came in for criticism during the election campaign and many political commentators expect that the new government will be compelled to make changes to it. We should view interpretations of election results with some scepticism, but it does appear that the issue of inadequate employment opportunities has bubbled up to the surface of our political ocean.

competitive exam committed suicide by hanging himself at his room in Rajasthan's Kota city, police said on Sunday. Ayush Jaiswal, a resident of Bihar's Motihari, was staying at a paying guest house near Samrat Chowk of Mahaveer Nagar area to prepare for the competitive exam. His friends informed the paying guest house owner when he did not come out of his room till Saturday night, police said.

real estate prices in Andhra Pradesh's Amaravati region are set to soar with several land dealings expected to close as the regime in the state transitioned from YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP to N Chandrababu Naidu-helmed NDA, breathed new life into the hitherto abandoned city project. The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority has already notified eight tenders, calling for jungle clearance along several roads in Amaravati even as Chief Secretary Neerabh Kumar Prasad, accompanied by other key officials such as CRDA Commissioner Vivek Yadav, has already visited the region to take stock of the situation. YV Ramana Rao, president, Andhra Pradesh chapter, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) claimed that land prices in Amaravati started inflating two months before the 2024 simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, anticipating Naidu's win. According to the CREDAI office-bearer, up to 50,000 acres of land inventory is available in and around Amaravati, including government and private lands.

The price change in 24 carat gold in the last one week has been 0.17% .whereas in the last month it has been 3.11%.The cost of silver is Rs.88010.0 per kg Gold Price Today in Chennai is ₹73663.0/10 grams. Yesterday’s Gold Price on 15-06-2024 was ₹73658.0/10 grams. and last week’s gold price on 10-06-2024 was ₹74214.0/10 grams.

Saudi Arabia. The ritual marks the final days of Hajj pilgrimage and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world. The stoning is among the final rites of the Hajj, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. It came a day after more than 1.8 million pilgrims congregated on a sacred hill in Mount Ararat outside the holy city of Mecca, which Muslim pilgrims visit to perform the annual five-day rituals of Hajj. The pilgrims left Mount Arafat on Saturday evening to spend their night in a nearby site known as Muzdalifa, where they collected pebbles they have used in the symbolic stoning of pillars representing the devil.

game zone after a fire there last month claimed 27 lives, police said on Sunday. With this, 12 persons, including six government employees, have so been arrested in connection with the May 25 incident at the TRP game zone in Gujarat's Rajkot city, they said The city crime branch on Saturday arrested RMC's assistant town planning officer Rajesh Makwana and assistant engineer Jaideep Chaudhary for their alleged involvement in making changes in an official register after the fire incident, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime, Parthrajsinh Gohil said. «They made certain changes in government documents related to the TRP game zone after the fire incident. They also forged documents,» he said.

Lord of the Rings movies. London’s King’s Cross train station, specifically Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, has been under a powerful Harry Potter spell for a good part of the 21st century. Iceland and Northern Ireland are still caught in Game of Thrones.

fire officials have managed to douse the fire that broke out at a packaging factory in the Tronica City industrial area in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Saturday morning, a fire official said. There was no loss of life in the fire incident. «At the time of the fire, three employees were present in the factory, who were evacuated safely,» Chief Fire Officer (CFO) Rahul Kumar told ANI. Twenty-four fire tenders were present on the spot to control the fire. The blaze had rapidly spread to the upper floors of the three-story building.