New Delhi: A drop in the Yamuna water level at Wazirabad during peak summer has disrupted operations at two major Delhi Jal Board (DJB) water treatment plants, affecting supply in several parts of the capital and triggering complaints of shortages, low pressure and contaminated water.Officials said production at the Chandrawal and Wazirabad plants has declined…
Mumbai: An Air India Express Boeing 737-800 operating a night flight to Kannur suffered damage during take-off at Muscat airport after the aircraft lined up with runway edge lights instead of the runway centreline at night, said sources. Oman’s Air Accidents Investigation Sector (AAIS) has classified the occurrence as an accident and launched an investigation.The…
Chennai: A 24-year-old man from Kanyakumari, declared brain dead after a road accident near Cheyyar, gave a new lease of life to multiple patients after his family consented to donate his organs at Saveetha Hospital.“In our community, it is customary to cremate the youngest child. We did not want our son’s life, efforts and organs…
Kolkata: In a major breakthrough for Indian biodiversity research, scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have developed the country’s first and largest DNA barcode reference library for cockroaches, uncovering several undocumented and endemic lineages found nowhere else in the world.The study, published in the international taxonomy journal Zootaxa, revealed that India’s hidden cockroach…
Panaji: The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (Goa-SEIAA) has granted additional time to the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) at Dhargalim, Pernem, to explain why it failed to pay the pending penalty amount imposed for violations during the construction of the institute.The accountant general (audit) for Goa state, through a letter dated Feb…
File photo of Hemant Nagindas Modi in police custody Ahmedabad: The cameras kept rolling, and the roles kept coming as nobody realised that Hemant Nagindas Modi had a life sentence hanging over him. The 54-year-old, arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch last week, allegedly spent nearly 12 years on the run after jumping parole —…
Chandigarh: Former Rajya Sabha MP and Chief Khalsa Diwan patron Rajmohinder Singh Majitha joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday.In a statement, AAP claimed that with his joining, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) suffered a political setback. AAP said his joining would help the party gain strength in Punjab’s Majha region. Punjab chief minister…
Pune: Two people have been arrested for allegedly cheating a Wagholi businessman (32) of Rs70.9 lakh on the pretext of helping him set up a call centre for food delivery and car rentals.The Kharadi police on Sunday arrested two of the seven suspects — a 23-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man identified as Tushar Maheshkumar…
Guwahati: Assam govt on Monday moved a resolution in the House to seek one-third reservation for women in the Parliament and all assemblies with immediate effect, following completing delimitation. The resolution will be discussed in the House on Tuesday and is set to be passed.State women and child welfare minister Ajanta Neog, while moving the…
LUCKNOW: With the tenure of gram panchayats across Uttar Pradesh (UP) ending on Tuesday, the state government has issued an order allowing outgoing 57,694 gram pradhans to continue in administrative roles until fresh panchayat bodies are constituted.The Panchayati Raj Department clarified that the five-year term of gram panchayats elected after the 2021 elections will formally…
