Hyderabad: With mosquito-borne diseases remaining a public health concern during the monsoon, the GHMC has intensified entomological surveillance and field inspections to identify and eliminate mosquito breeding sources across the city.During a review meeting at the GHMC head office, the GHMC commissioner directed officials to step up measures to prevent and control vector-borne diseases.Experts from…
Gurgaon: The state govt has signed MoUs with Oil Green Energy Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oil India Ltd, for setting up four integrated waste-to-energy plants in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Hisar and Ambala, with a combined capacity to process 5,000 tonnes of waste a day and generate 50 MW of power. The projects are expected…
A bulletin issued by the Regional Meteorological Centre on Saturday said a low-pressure area has formed over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Bengal-north Odisha coasts on Saturday morning Kolkata: Light to moderate rain is likely across south Bengal with possibility of heavy rain at one or two places in South 24 Parganas on Sunday…
The CM was also asked to introduce a policy for empowerment of PwDs Panaji: Disability Rights Association of Goa (DRAG) on Thursday met chief minister Pramod Sawant and sought an increase in the disability pension from Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000 a month to Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 a month, considering the increased cost…
Santosh and Aarti Karode at Mahatma Gandhi Granth Mandir in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: Every part of the Nirnaynagar home of Santosh Karode, 64, and his wife Aarti, 63, is a bookshelf: books line the kitchen counter, pile up on beds, spread across sofas, and sprawl out on the verandah.One upstairs room is the only space where…
PM Vishwakarma Portal Yet to Resume RegistrationsTNNLudhiana: The PM Vishwakarma portal is yet to resume fresh registrations. Under the scheme, Punjab already had much lower participation than neighbouring states till last year, when the registrations were open.There about about 13,000 successful registrations, compared to about 41,000 registrations in Haryana and about 2.50 lakh in Rajasthan.The…
Tarn Taran: A man from Tarn Taran and two of his relatives from Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur have been missing in Nepal since a devastating flash flood swept the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli river system on Aug 26.Shamsher Singh Sandhu of Rattoke village near Chohla Sahib and his relatives Bhupinder Singh and Rashpal Singh were in Nepal when…
A drone view of houses in mud and the broken bridge after flash floods and a mudslide, at Devighat in Nepal Guwahati: Four more Assam residents who went missing after the Nepal disaster were traced on Saturday, but 10 others remained unaccounted for.The number of people from Assam reported to be in Nepal rose from…
Rajkot: A 70-year-old man was mauled by a wild animal, suspected to be a lion, in Una taluka in Gir Somnath district in the early hours of Saturday.The victim, Bhupat Gohil, was sleeping in the open on his farm in Nandrakh village when the animal attacked him. Gohil resisted, causing the animal to flee.He taken…
Rakesh Bhati (centre) joins Congress in the presence of PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra and LoP Tikaram Jully at party office on Aug 29 Jaipur: With just two days left for filing nominations for the urban local body elections, BJP is facing signs of rebellion and discontent across several parts of the state, with party…
