Drone photograph of the island being developed in Nagawara Lake Bengaluru: Over 10 acres of land at the Hebbal lake premises, that was reportedly encroached upon by a govt entity, has been recovered by Greater Bengaluru Authority which is currently in the process of redeveloping the lake.According to a senior GBA official, the Fisheries Research…
Navi Mumbai: In a significant relief for residents and environmental groups, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has sought technical inputs from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) to revise the proposed Palm Beach Road underpass design at Sanpada with the aim of saving maximum number of trees from being axed. The proposed underpass triggered…
The book fair will be held from Jan 22 to Feb 3, 2027 Kolkata: The advisory board which has been formed to guide the Kolkata book fair committee for organising the 50th International Kolkata Book Fair 2027, wants to have Israel as the theme country. The book fair will be held from Jan 22 to…
Ahmedabad: More than three decades after a woman from Dholka mysteriously disappeared, the Crime Branch registered a murder case and arrested two elderly men after recovering skeletal remains buried beneath a house in Vatva, and DNA identification.The murder mystery was solved in the last week of April after the Crime Branch carried out an excavation…
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India board on Friday okayed a dividend of Rs 2.87 lakh crore to govt, 6.7% more than last year’s Rs 2.69 lakh crore, even as it sharply raised transfers to its contingency risk buffer amid a surge in earnings and balance sheet expansion.The higher dividend came despite a transfer of…
Car carrying youth, his father and three police personnel crashed into a canter taking a U-turn on the expressway Noida: A 20-year-old man who had been missing from his Aligarh home for five days died on Friday after the police vehicle bringing him back home collided with a canter on Delhi-Meerut Expressway.According to cops, Ashu,…
Jaipur: Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (RVUNL) has recorded its highest-ever thermal power generation, producing 7,171MW from its coal-based power plants on June 2, marking a new milestone.The record output was achieved from 23 thermal generating units with a combined installed capacity of 7,580MW. The achievement surpasses the previous peak generation of 6,833MW recorded on…
New chief secretary Sanjay Jaju takes over from K Ramakrishna Rao on Tuesday New chief secretary Sanjay Jaju takes charges in secretariat on Tuesday. pic: TOI Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer Sanjay Jaju assumed charge as the chief secretary of Telangana at the secretariat on Tuesday. A 1992-batch IAS officer, Jaju succeeded K Ramakrishna Rao, who…
11-year-old Touren Pope finds 48-million-year-old turtle fossil in WyomingPhoto credit: Craig Thomas, BLM Rock Springs Field Office What began as a routine family rock-hounding trip in southwest Wyoming turned into a paleontological headline when 11-year-old Touren Pope noticed something unusual poking out of the ground. What he’d spotted was the fossilized shell of a softshell…
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis (L) defended the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link project (R) MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday strongly defended the Mumbai-Pune Expressway’s Missing Link project amid criticism following a landslide near its tunnel.The CM said such initial challenges were inevitable in major infrastructure projects, news agency PTI reported.Replying to a…
