Kolkata: The Land Ports Authority of India is planning to set up seven more integrated land ports along Bengal’s border with Bangladesh over the next five to six years, with the majority concentrated in the strategically vital Siliguri Corridor, LPAI chairman Jayant Singh disclosed during a visit to Kolkata last week.Bengal currently has only one…
Residents alleged that the contractor hired four months ago failed to clean the sewer lines properly Gurgaon: Residents of Sector 40 have flagged recurrent sewage overflow in parts of the sector, despite complaints to the civic body. They claim temporary measures, including deploying a suction machine, have failed to resolve the issue, leaving several streets…
Pune: The Mundhwa police on Thursday detained a 17-year-old minor boy on the charge of bludgeoning a 30-year-old daily wage worker to death.The murder took place on Thursday afternoon, when victim Lokesh Tembre, who hailed from Nagpur, was drinking liquor with the minor on an open ground near BT Kawde Road in Mundhwa. The police…
Panaji: The town and country planning (TCP) department proposed the conversion of more than 63,500 sqm of land across Bardez, Salcete, Tiswadi and Mormugao under the Section 39A notifications, with Bardez accounting for the bulk of the land earmarked for settlement zone conversion.The latest round of proposals continues the recent trend of “correcting” the Regional…
“Pressure is privilege,” Virat Kohli had said during IPL 2026. It is one of those lines that sounds good on a poster or your social media post caption but is much harder to live by. It sounds simple enough, but pressure has a way of changing players. It can make them play safe, make them…
Jahnavi@timesofindia.comBengaluru: Most expatriates leave India with a few keepsakes and plenty of memories. Dutch aerospace engineer Rob Bosgraaf took home something far more unusual from Bengaluru — the Indian sports utility vehicle (SUV) that had carried him and his wife on many road trips across the country.Now, it sports a Dutch number plate instead of…
Banknotes celebrate past football legends KOLKATA: As the FIFA World Cup, the biggest spectacle on earth, got underway in Mexico, football has found an unusual place of celebration in the collection of Debkumar Pal, a member of the Numismatic Society of Calcutta and the International Bank Note Society.Pal has assembled 15 bank notes from across…
Rural community on Chile’s Chiloé Island restores its water supply. (Picture: Chile’s Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity) A small rural community on Chile’s Chiloe Island has ended years of dependence on emergency water tanker trucks by restoring its forests, protecting its watershed and building a community-managed water system.The project took years of planning and work…
New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three accused, including two public servants—a chief materials manager and a senior clerk of Northern Railway (HQ)—and a private person in a bribery case.The arrested accused have been identified as Narender Singh, chief materials manager; Lenin Sharma, senior clerk; and Shariq Ali.CBI registered a case on…
“The farmer of this country is a synonym for the prosperity of India. They are our Annadata. We have always respected the farmers who provide food to every citizen of the country,” UP CM Yogi Adityanath on farmers. The very first decision Yogi Adityanath had taken after assuming the charge of Uttar Pradesh chief minister…
