Traffic officials said their focus had initially been on managing congestion at Shankar Chowk, and that attention was now turning to the problems emerging inside Udyog Vihar Traffic officials said their focus had initially been on managing congestion at Shankar Chowk, and that attention was now turning to the problems emerging inside Udyog Vihar Traffic…
Debasish Dutta and his wife Afsana Kolkata: Tuesday evening was marked with joy for Kushtia resident Debasish Dutta as he and his family picked out new clothes for Durga Puja along the alleys of New Market.Barely seven hours after the shopping outing, the bodies of the family of four — Debasish, his wife Afsana, the…
Colva: The public works department (PWD) on Wednesday began filling potholes on the most expensive two-kilometre stretch of the Seraulim-Colva road, constructed at a cost of Rs. 27.1 crore.TOI, in its Sunday edition, had highlighted the pothole-ridden condition of the road. The deteriorating surface had made driving hazardous, particularly for two-wheeler riders.PWD assistant engineer Leslie…
A body was found under the Kasarhiya river bridge in the Rampur Barkonia police station area of the district on Sunday morning. Varanasi: Sonbhadra police on Tuesday claimed to have solved a case of murder with the arrest of three persons. A body was found under the Kasarhiya river bridge in the Rampur Barkonia police…
Ahmedabad: Twenty-two years after Reserve Bank of India halted fresh licences for new urban co-operative banks following the Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank (MMCB) scam, Gujarat could see new entrants in the sector with the central bank’s proposed licensing relaxations.The 2004 ban was imposed after the MMCB crisis, in which depositors lost savings estimated at more…
Shimla: The bodies of all three people trapped in a landslide at a limestone mining site in Sirmaur’s Shillai tehsil were recovered by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Wednesday, a day after the accident.The landslide occurred on Tuesday afternoon at a mining site in Tilordhar near Kafota, when heavy debris and large boulders…
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Cars damaged by the flood on a street in the Dumbhal area of Surat Surat: Recurring floods in Surat cannot be tackled through infrastructure alone, as poor civic behaviour, unchecked waste dumping, illegal industrial discharge and political interference are undermining flood-mitigation efforts, a senior Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) official said on Wednesday.Rakesh Modi, executive engineer…
Dibrugarh-Delhi Rajdhani Express halted allowing passage of a herd of about 90 elephants Guwahati: Dibrugarh-Delhi Rajdhani Express was stopped early on Wednesday, about 2 km from Habaipur railway station in Hojai district, to allow a herd of around 90 elephants, most of them calves, to cross the tracks safely. The herd was returning from West…
FSDA commissioner Roshan Jacob and officials carry out raid at a medical store in Lucknow Lucknow: As part of a statewide crackdown on drug mafias, Uttar Pradesh Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) seized fake, counterfeit and illegally traded medicines worth around Rs 5.43 crore across Lucknow, Agra, Varanasi and Gonda.Sharing details on Wednesday, an…
