Floods have damaged numerous hydropower projects, blocking tunnels with debris NEW DELHI: A Delhi-NCR team of “rat miners”, whose manual excavation helped rescue all 41 workers trapped in Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel in 2023, has offered to join rescue operations in flood-hit Nepal, where at least 900 workers are missing from 12 hydropower projects and about…
Law Judge And Justice Symbol Mumbai: A year after his arrest in a money laundering case, a special court rejected the bail plea of former Deputy Director of Town Planning, Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation, Y Shiva Reddy, holding that material collected by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) showed alleged possession of huge tainted assets. “The investigation…
Bengaluru: The high court Wednesday ordered notice to suspended KPSC chairperson Shivashankarappa S Sahukar and others in response to a writ appeal filed by the governor’s office, challenging the order passed by a single bench.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice KS Hemalekha also ordered notice to the secretary, KPSC and principal…
CHENNAI: A priceless emerald idol of Lord Murugan was stolen from a hill-top temple near Madurantakam, about 60km south of Chennai, by thieves who breached a three-layer security system, disabled the alarm and sprayed paint over CCTV cameras on Tuesday night.The theft took place at Sri Maragatha Bala Dhandayuthapani Murugan Temple at Perungkaranai village, popularly…
Two Army helicopters have also been conducting aerial searches and making repeated sorties over the WJC, but the missing personnel have not yet been located. YAMUNANAGAR: The search for two Army personnel who went missing after their boat capsized in strong currents in the Yamuna river near Hathnikund barrage in Yamunanagar district on Tuesday has…
South 24 Parganas tops the survey list with more than 4.81 lakh households, followed by Murshidabad with 4.42 lakh. North 24 Parganas is third on the list with 3.84 lakh. Kolkata: The state panchayats and rural development (P&RD) department has completed a survey of more than 54.6 lakh households across the state for Pradhan Mantri…
Guwahati: About 1,200 contractual employees of Assam’s National Health Mission (NHM) face immediate exit after the authorities early this week enforced a retirement age of 60 for staff who have continued in service beyond the prescribed limit.NHM Assam has more than 18,000 contractual employees. The order affects employees aged between 60 and 70 who are…
The post office passport seva kendra (POPSK) was inaugurated in Ladakh’s Kargil on Wednesday to provide residents easier access to passport-related services, officials said.Minister of State for External Affairs and Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh inaugurated it in the presence of Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh V K Saxena and Member of Parliament…
According to the report, in 1941, the U.S. Steel Company built the lodge for the children of its employees. The Good Fellow Youth Camp, which ran from 1941 to 1975, provided generations of young people with an opportunity to get outdoors in what would later become Indiana Dunes National Park. Generations of Northwest Indiana children…
For many Indians these days, the real value of gold may lie not in keeping it locked away, but in unlocking it. They say old is gold, and indeed old gold is turning into a golden opportunity for families in India as prices of the yellow metal rise, yielding an asset that is now increasingly…
