Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: The state govt has decided to buy 125 Remote Control Robotic Craft (RCRC) boats for disaster response forces for search and rescue operations. Each boat will cost around Rs. 22 lakh, and the total budget will be around Rs 28 crore. Officials said RCRC boats are unmanned, scaled-down watercraft equipped with remote control and…
Bengaluru: An interest rate of 9% is more appropriate in cases involving death and serious injury, especially where there is a long delay in the claimant’s receiving the compensation, the high court ruled.Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju, upholding the decision of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Bengaluru, in a 10-year-old accident case, noted in her recent…
Chennai: Taking strong exception to the Tambaram corporation and water resources department’s failure to plug sewage contamination of Madambakkam lake, the southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the civic body to fast-track implementation of the underground sewerage scheme.Until the project is completed, the tribunal has directed the corporation to operationalize an…
Hyderabad: An additional chief metropolitan magistrate at the Nampally court on Friday refused to hear a private petition filed by a former woman corporator against a number of Congress leaders including Telangana Congress’ AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan on grounds of jurisdiction. Meenakshi’s nomination papers for a Rajya Sabha seat were rejected by a returning officer…
The Rs 165-crore project, awarded in Nov last year with a two-year completion timeline Gurgaon: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a final notice to the contractor handling renovation of a 28-km stretch of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, warning it may be replaced if substantial progress is not achieved by June 30.The Rs 165-crore…
Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday warned “troublemakers” against trying to create disturbances similar to those witnessed in Park Circus or Asansol, adding that if such incidents are repeated, they will find him to be the “worst CM”.“We have seen what happened in Dhuliyan, Shamsherganj and Mothabari. They tried to assess the situation by…
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Removal of the natural storm barriers, the complainant said, has exposed the residents of Moira, Tivim, Colvale, and surrounding low-lying villages to the threat of flooding Mapusa: The Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) on Friday inspected a site along the Moira river to examine the destruction of mangroves within the eco-sensitive coastal regulation zone…
Varanasi: The Anti-Corruption Team on Friday arrested a junior engineer (JE) of the electricity department while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 22,000.Inspector Umashankar Yadav said the complainant, Amit Kumar Srivastava of Taktakpur, had applied online on June 6 for a temporary electricity connection for construction of his new house in Manshanagar Colony. He met…
Gandhinagar: On the first anniversary of the AI 171 crash on Friday, Gujarat govt announced educational and healthcare projects worth Rs 547 crore at the new mental hospital compound — the crash site of the ill-fated plane.The govt said that apart from eight new hostel blocks whose construction was announced earlier, a paraplegia and spine…
