Navi Mumbai: A gas leak from one of the pressure wagons of a goods train put rail traffic movement out of gear late on Saturday evening at Panvel railway station till midnight. The goods train was moving from JNPA to Raipur, Chhattisgarh.The train was stopped at Panvel railway station platform number 5 before being taken…
Chennai: For 49-year-old housewife E Devi, caring for her ailing mother-in-law at home lasted less than two days.When Bhagya Ammal, 84, had slipped and fallen in her bathroom more than a month ago, she was taken to a private hospital, where doctors found nine cancerous tumors in her body.When doctors told her she was too…
Two engg students drowned in the backwaters of the Shirwata dam near Lonavla Pune: A weekend outing by six city-based engineering students in Maval taluka ended in tragedy on Sunday after two students drowned in the backwaters of the Shirwata dam near Lonavla.The deceased were identified as Arya Bandawar (20), a native of Gondia, and…
Hyderabad: The average cost of hospitalisation in Telangana has now further gone up to ₹55,000, up from ₹52,743 reported in the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) released in April this year.The latest figures from the ‘Parliamentary Standing Committee report on health and family welfare’ placed Telangana at the top of the states with the highest…
The clean-up operations involved pourakarmikas, hired labour and earth-moving equipment depending on the size of the site Bengaluru: Even as the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) plans to hold private landowners accountable for maintaining vacant sites and recover cleanup costs from defaulters, Bengaluru North City Corporation’s experience suggests the biggest challenge may not be clearing garbage…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a 38-year-old business consultant from Dudulgaon of Rs 5.23 lakh by offering him a franchise of a logistics services provider.The suspects collected money from the complainant between May 21 and June 20 under various pretexts. The complainant lodged a complaint with the Dighi police on Monday.According to a Dighi police officer, the…
Jaipur: Chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma Saturday laid foundation stones and inaugurated development projects worth around Rs 880 crore in Kekri of Ajmer district, including the Phase-I four-laning of the Nasirabad-Sarwar-Kekri-Deoli Road. He said the govt was accelerating infrastructure development to improve connectivity and public amenities.Addressing a public meeting, Sharma said the state govt developed…
LUCKNOW: In a joint operation involving police, intelligence, and administrative agencies, authorities rescued 453 Nepalese youths, including young men and women, from an alleged job scam and illegal training network operating in Kushinagar district. Eight persons have been arrested in connection with the case, while the alleged mastermind remains absconding.The operation was launched after several…
Silchar: National Health Mission (NHM), Assam, has transferred the district programme managers (DPMs) of Cachar, Sribhumi and Hailakandi amid concerns over neonatal deaths in the Barak Valley.The reshuffle comes days after health minister Ashok Singhal told the Assam assembly that the govt was taking the deaths “very seriously” and treating the matter as one of…
Mumbai: On Tuesday, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar visited the protesters at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and advised the Centre to give them a hearing, in sync with the opposition front against the Modi govt on the CJP agitation. However, on Wednesday, Pawar was photographed meeting with PM Modi in Parliament, further raising speculation over…
