The Maharashtra government has ordered a stricter, mandatory verification process for lakhs of gig and delivery workers across Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), amid a political row over alleged infiltration by undocumented migrants. Labour Minister Akash Fundkar issued the directive after a joint meeting with the Home Department at Mantralaya on April 7,...

CHENNAI: Ahead of the April 23 election for the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday replaced the state’s chief secretary, N Muruganandam, with senior bureaucrat M Sai Kumar and DGP (armed police, vigilance and anti-corruption) S Davidson Devasirvatham with Sandeep Mittal, a 1995-batch IPS officer, a decision that drew an...

Damage to the Kuwait-flagged Al-Salmi crude oil tanker, following a reported strike, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “It is as if there is a raging fire in the neighbourhood—close enough to feel the heat, yet not quite at your door.”  Swapnil Ghosh, an electronics and instrumentation engineer working on an onshore oil...