Metro work underway on Blue Line in Bengaluru Bengaluru: A technical and commercial feasibility study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science’s Sustainable Transportation Lab has found that the upcoming Blue Line of Namma Metro could be fully powered by solar energy.The corridor, once completed, will be 55km long and will stretch from the Central…
Chennai: Within a week of TVK govt assuming office, early signs of friction have emerged between the state administration and the elected Greater Chennai Corporation council.While the newly elected ministers and representatives have begun chairing review meetings and conducting field inspections across the city, Mayor R Priya, standing committee members, zonal chairpersons and councillors remained…
Agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao Hyderabad: Agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led Centre over paddy procurement and farm policies, alleging that they were failing to protect farmers and had become a “curse” for them.Responding to BJP leaders’ remarks, Tummala said the claims of Union ministers on grain procurement did…
The case dates to Sept 2024, when NGT first took cognisance of the allegations Gurgaon: National Green Tribunal has sought a response from the Haryana govt after residents alleged that illegal land filling and tree felling are continuing in South City-1, Sector 41 and that a court-appointed inspection panel failed to examine several affected sites.The…
Kolkata: Beleghata TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh said he would send a copy of the court order on his security to police on Tuesday. In a post on social media, Ghosh said, “I had requested security from court… it instructed police togive ‘all kinds’ of security.”He added: “The order I have seen regarding the withdrawal of…
Panaji: A seven-year-old boy was among six people rescued from drowning in Goa over the weekend. Drishti Marine also reported that three beachgoers were stung by marine life.At Dudhsagar waterfalls, lifeguards rescued a seven-year-old boy and his 28-year-old mother from Bengaluru. The child fell into the water in a rocky area without wearing a life…
Rajeev.DikshitVaranasi: A 30-year-old man Amaresh Singh was shot at by Thar-borne miscreants on the Mau highway near Karha village under Chiraiyyakot police station in Mau district on Sunday night after a dispute over giving way. In a similar incident, a youth was shot at by car-borne attackers in Varanasi on Saturday night.Mau’s circle officer (Mohammadabad)…
Ahmedabad: The Sabarmati river has remained largely empty for over a month after the state govt’s irrigation department drained water for maintenance work on the 18 gates of the Vasna Barrage in Ahmedabad, but the much-publicised river-cleaning campaign by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is yet to begin.The irrigation department had stopped releasing water into…
Jalandhar: CCTV footage of a mobile phone snatching incident in the city has surfaced on social media, showing one of the robbers brandishing a sharp-edged weapon and bringing it dangerously close to the victim woman during the attack.The footage, which went viral on Monday, shows the woman walking with her child in a street when…
Illustration explaining tracheo-esophageal fistula Pune: After days of persistent cough and a sense of choking on water, a 32-year-old man was diagnosed with tracheo-esophageal fistula — a condition primarily observed as a congenital defect in newborn infants. Its occurrence in an adult is considered an exceptionally rare phenomenon, said an expert.Some doctors said the rare…
