Bengaluru: A Target order placed in the US may be fulfilled not from a distant warehouse, but from a store down the road. Before it reaches a customer’s doorstep, technology determines where the product is available, which store should fulfill the order and how employees can pick it most efficiently. Part of that planning happens…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation — the state agency that procures drugs and medical equipment for govt hospitals — has floated a tender to supply gold rings for newborns under a signature welfare scheme of chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s govt.The corporation is seeking a one-year rate contract for roughly 4.41 lakh one-gram,…
Hyderabad: Family members of P Raj Kumar, a 35-year-old farmer who died by suicide after allegedly killing six people, including a POCSO case victim and his two minor sons, refused to collect his body after the post-mortem at Chevella Hospital on Monday night to perform his last rites.Raj Kumar’s body was found in an open…
Kolkata: In another major reshuffle of the Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, the state govt has transferred 33 senior police officers on Tuesday. The reshuffle meant that the state’s investigating agency, the CID, will have a new boss.The Bidhannagar police commissioner has been shifted too. The Baruipur police division , which handled the 12-year schoolgirl’s…
During excavation, officials found that a joint on the distribution line had loosened Ponda: Parts of Ponda and Marcaim constituencies faced a water shortage on Tuesday evening after the drinking water department repaired a leaking pipeline joint at Dhavali on the outskirts of Ponda town.The leak had continued for two days. The department took up…
Chandigarh: The AICC in charge for Haryana, Sanjay Dutt, met senior party functionary and leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday to discuss the political situation in the state. The party has decided to intensify efforts to strengthen its organisation and expand outreach to workers.Dutt said Gandhi reviewed the political…
The app has so far been rolled out in 82 gram panchayats Pune: State govt and Tata Motors Foundation have developed an app, Integrated Village Development Programme (IVDP) 2.0, that captures data at village-level across 95 different parameters to check eligibility of the residents for 35 govt schemes.This app will enable govt, NGOs and other…
Itanagar: An 84-metre steel truss bridge over the Kumey river on the strategic Yangte-Tali road in Kra Daadi district of Arunachal has been washed away in flash floods triggered by incessant rainfall, cutting off at least eight remote villages in Tali assembly constituency.The bridge, located between Jha and Ruhi villages, was the main road link…
Lucknow: Chief secretary SP Goyal on Tuesday chaired a meeting to assess land availability for electric vehicle charging stations as the state accelerates adoption of clean mobility initiatives. Stressing the significance of the Prime Minister’s E-Drive Scheme in building green and sustainable transport in Uttar Pradesh, Goyal said faster rollout of public charging infrastructure would…
Trucks parked on highways across Rajasthan due to state-wide strike Jaipur: More than 10,000 trucks remained off roads across Rajasthan Tuesday as transport associations pressed an indefinite strike against new rules introduced by the transport department, threatening widening disruption to freight movement and supplies of perishable goods.The strike, which began Monday, is set to enter…
