Bengaluru: Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) is set to float tenders worth Rs 125.5 crore for three large Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) to process 1,226 tonnes of dry waste daily. The move is aimed at reducing the city’s dependence on landfills while strengthening recycling and scientific waste segregation systems.This will be BSWML’s third attempt…
Chennai: Hours after chief minister C Joseph Vijay said Tamil Nadu’s coffers were empty, former chief minister M K Stalin said the state’s debt was within permissible limits.“TN does have the money. What’s needed is the will to give it to the people and the ability to govern,” Stalin said in a statement issued in…
Hyderabad: Amid global energy supply disruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to use public transport and revive work from home to reduce dependence on petrol and diesel — which largely come from imported crude — and conserve foreign exchange by avoiding overseas weddings and vacations as well as unnecessary gold purchases.The suggestions,…
Residents also claimed that the existing motor and pipe size are inadequate to draw sufficient water into the colony’s internal distribution system Gurgaon: Nearly 2,000 families in A and A1 blocks of Sushant Lok 2 have been without GMDA water supply for over a month due to a faulty motor. This has forced residents to…
Kolkata: A woman in her late 20s reportedly jumped to her death from the third floor of a building near City Centre II in Rajarhat on Sunday afternoon. The deceased, a resident of Barasat, worked at a spa operating from the same premises.According to the Eco Park police, the incident took place shortly after around…
Noida: Noida is taking several measures to improve its national ranking for the 10th edition of the Swachh Survekshan (SS) programme, with beautification and repair drives being carried out across the city.As part of the process, Noida Authority has commissioned new wall paintings, and ordered the repair of roads, pavements, and public toilets.“We are also…
Ponda: A Sunday outing turned tragic when a 21-year-old IIT Goa student from Ladakh went missing and is feared to have drowned in the Okamb rivulet at Dharbandora. Imtiyaz Hussain, part of a group of around eight youths on a picnic, had ventured into the rivulet behind the Sanjivani sugar factory for a swim, but…
Varanasi: In the early hours of Sunday, two armed men aboard the DDU-Tarighat passenger train gunned down a youth before flinging his body onto the tracks between Alinagar and Sakaldiha in Chandauli district. Panic erupted in the coach as the train slowed, giving the assailants their chance to leap off and vanish into the morning…
Ahmedabad: Monday, May 11 will mark 75 years of the consecration of the reconstructed and restored Somnath Temple at Prabhas Patan. The ceremony was held in 1951 in the presence of India’s first President Dr Rajendra Prasad. A commemorative Rs 75 coin will be released by PM Narendra Modi to mark the occassion, said numismatists….
Hisar: A 46-year-old mason who had been missing for several days was allegedly murdered by his son and buried in a vacant plot in Barwala to conceal the crime, police said on Sunday.The body of Kulwant, a resident of Ravidas Nagar, was recovered from a plot near a colony behind a gas agency on Daulatpur…
