Chennai: Water resources department (WRD) has begun a ₹7-crore project to restore the 120-acre Pallavaram Periya Eri, which has been choked by water hyacinth and affected by sewage and encroachments.Workers have started clearing the hyacinth. The project also includes desilting the lake, strengthening and reshaping its bunds, and improving its inlet and outlet channels to…
Hyderabad: The Students Protection Forum (SPF) of JNTUH University College of Engineering has flagged poor maintenance and inadequate basic facilities in the university’s boys’ and girls’ hostels.In a representation to the principal, the forum alleged that drinking water filters were not functioning properly and that the water was often dirty and unhygienic. It also raised…
The gap between sanctioned or contracted manpower and actual deployment has repeatedly surfaced in the city Gurgaon: What began as a closed-door meeting of the MCG House on Thursday turned into an extraordinary display of frustration over the city’s sanitation crisis, with Mayor Raj Rani Malhotra getting up from her chair and folding her hands…
Kolkata: Congress veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday made a direct pitch to Mamata Banerjee to rejoin Congress along with her MLAs and MPs, saying there would be no objection to her leading the party’s Bengal unit.Chowdhury also appealed to the Congress high command to facilitate her return and said Banerjee should, as a gesture…
The fire spread and burnt down two furniture warehouses in the area Ghaziabad: A major fire broke out in a dark store of Instamart on Kala Patthar Road in Indirapuram and spread to adjacent furniture warehouses, a diagnostic centre and a housing society behind it.No casualties were reported in the incident but goods in the…
The project, tendered in Sept 2025, envisages a transport hub combining a bus terminal and commercial complex Margao: More than a year after the transport department floated a tender to redevelop the Kadamba bus stand at Margao on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis, the Rs 250-crore project remains stuck awaiting govt clearance.The project, tendered in…
Varanasi: A joint team of Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) recovered Rs43 lakh cash from a passenger during a checking drive at DDU Railway Station in Chandauli district on Wednesday night.The operation was conducted under the leadership of sub-inspector Avinash Tripathi. The security personnel checked train (12393) Sampoorna Kranti Express after…
Ahmedabad: A bullion trader from Naranpura has accused a man who claimed to head a charitable foundation of taking gold and silver jewellery worth Rs 2.9 crore from his Ranip shop over 10 months and failing to pay Rs 1.8 crore of the dues. Economic Offence Wing (EOW) has begun examining the complaint.According to the…
TNNLudhiana: A group of unidentified miscreants allegedly stole a Swift car parked on a street in Maharaj Nagar after breaking its lock. Strangely, the accused arrived in an SUV. The incident was captured on a CCTV camera.Car owner Mehakdeep Singh of Muktsar Sahib said he lives in paying guest accommodation and had parked his car…
Senior SAD functionary Daljit Singh Cheema said the door-to-door campaign would be launched by Badal from Attari and held simultaneously across all assembly constituencies to seek suggestions for the party’s election manifesto. Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday announced an intensive campaign programme for the 2027 Punjab assembly elections, with a door-to-door campaign from…
