Kalyan: Phase 1 of the Metro Line 5 corridor is progressing steadily towards the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) inspection stage, a key milestone before commissioning, even as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has expanded the project into one of the region’s largest metro corridors spanning 34.2 km across Thane, Bhiwandi, Kalyan…
Delhi based smuggling of illegal goods to Bengaluru through trains have now shifted to Cigarettes as well. In a third such large-scale smuggling incident in one week, close to 2 lakh foreign manufactured cigarettes worth Rs 30 Lakhs were trafficked through railways Tuesday to the city Bengaluru: After illegal liquor, smugglers are now allegedly using…
CITIZEN-LED CLIMATE ACTION: THE GREEN INDIA CHALLENGE MODELHyderabad: Green India Challenge founder Joginapally Santosh Kumar said the India’s most urgent climate policy gap is the continued exclusion of heatwaves from the list of notified disasters under State Disaster Response Force SDRF) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) calling for a broad citizen led climate action…
Idol-makers have 141 days to finish their work Kolkata: Ever since the ban on digging soil from riverbanks came into effect, sticky clay from the Hooghly has become scarce. As a result, the making of Durga idols has taken a hit. Artisans are concerned over how to complete the idols, as they have only 141…
Newly appointed Haryana BJP State President, Archana Gupta CHANDIGARH: The Haryana BJP on Thursday appointed Archana Gupta as the new president of its state unit, making her only the second woman to head the party in Haryana in more than four decades.Gupta, a doctor by profession (radiologist), is at present the party state general secretary.Kamla…
Silchar: Six persons, including a woman, were arrested on Thursday afternoon for allegedly slaughtering a cow during Eid-ul-Zuha celebrations at Bariknagar, on the outskirts of Silchar, police said.Sources said Bajrang Dal activists informed police after learning about the incident. Soon after, several members of the outfit gathered near the area and staged a protest, triggering…
LUCKNOW: Two persons were burnt alive and another sustained burn injuries after a maize-laden truck and a dumper collided head-on and caught fire on the Kushinagar-Lucknow four-lane highway in Gorakhpur district early Thursday.The impact of the collision was so severe that both vehicles were engulfed in flames within minutes, triggering panic in the area and…
Registrations for India’s Most Beautiful Marathon to open from June 1 Udaipur: After drawing 7,000 runners from 27 Indian states and several countries in its previous edition, the Vedanta Zinc City Half Marathon is set to return to Udaipur on September 6, 2026 for its third edition. Organised by Hindustan Zinc Limited in association with…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday tendered his resignation from the state’s top job, ending a months-long tussle with his deputy DK Shivakumar.Two days after his meeting with the Congress high command in Delhi, Siddaramaiah reached Karnataka Bhavan and submitted his resignation to governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s secretary.After tendering his resignation, the Congress leader…
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