Minister Agnimitra Paul at the Lansdowne Market on Sunday Kolkata: After inspecting Lansdowne Market on Sunday, state urban development and municipal affairs minister, Agnimitra Paul, urged the traders there to set aside politics and cooperate with the developer for the long-pending redevelopment of the market. The redevelopment project has been stalled for nearly four decades.“A…
Bicholim: Residents of Piligao have unanimously demanded that the village panchayat direct mining companies to immediately stop night-shift operations in Sarmanas, citing inconvenience and safety concerns. The demand was raised at the Piligao gram sabha held on Sunday under acting sarpanch Umakant Parab Gaonkar.Villagers also opposed the continuation of mining during the monsoon and strongly…
Police suspect he may have died of cardiac arrest Ahmedabad: Moments after allegedly setting a woman’s scooter on fire, a rickshaw driver collapsed mid-escape and died. Police suspect 33-year-old Nitin Chauhan suffered a cardiac arrest. The incident occurred around 4.30pm on Thursday outside the woman’s house in Rukshmani Vallabh Society near Kenyug Crossroads in Satellite….
Sonipat: A 14-year-old schoolboy died after allegedly coming into contact with a live electricity pole while playing near a drain in Haryana’s Sonipat district on Friday.The incident occurred when Ankit Kumar, a Class VII student, was playing with his friends near drain number 8 in Barota village, said his father Vinod Kumar, holding the power…
Uday Samant meeting Chakan industrialists Pune: Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde and state industries minister Uday Samant on Sunday held a nearly three-hour meeting with industrialists and other stakeholders to address infrastructure and other issues affecting the Chakan MIDC area.The meeting came days after several industrialists threatened to shift their units out of Chakan over…
Guwahati: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh’s Dibrugarh district unit distributed paddy seedlings to flood-affected farmers in Sivasagar district, helping them restart cultivation after the floods.According to a press statement, farmers from Jamira, Tengakhat and Khowang in Dibrugarh prepared around 1,100 bundles of paddy seedlings for Sivasagar.The seedlings were distributed on Sunday in Mechagarh, a remote area badly…
Lucknow: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has introduced the one time settlement (OTS) scheme for house tax collection in the state capital.Around Rs 1,500.76 crore is due as house, water and sewerage tax from 2,24,749 houses in eight zones which includes Rs 724.76 crore of arrears, Rs 497.41 crore of pending dues and Rs 278.58 crore…
Jaipur: A brake failure sent a safari canter crashing into a tree inside Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR), leaving 24 tourists, including three children below five, injured and forcing the group to wait nearly an hour for rescue.The incident, which occurred in Zone 9 on Aug 15, has exposed glaring chinks in tourist safety and raised…
An SC bench said the evidence for an accidental drowning was more plausible than homicide. NEW DELHI: Observing that the human mind can sometimes act foolishly, especially in the face of unpredictable adversity, Supreme Court has said that such behaviour cannot be the sole basis of conviction and acquitted two men who had been held…
Mining lithium for batteries is a growing part of South Africa’s plan to use the global shift towards green energy to revive its economy, but now it faces a challenge from thousands of angry farmers who fear losing productive land to open-pit mines. On the southeast coast, where a lithium mine operates and more than…
