Hyderabad: Aerospace and defence manufacturer Sigma Advanced Systems has signed an additional seven-year agreement with Rolls-Royce Aerospace UK worth nearly £125 million (around Rs 1,600 crore) through its newly acquired subsidiary Bromford Precision Solutions in Leicester.The contract follows a recently announced £300 million (around Rs 3,900 crore) long-term agreement with Rolls-Royce and expands Sigma’s role…
As buses broke down and got stuck, kids waded through knee-deep water after Monday’s rain Gurgaon: A six-year-old on his mother’s shoulders. Schoolchildren crying in buses, hungry and desperate to reach home. Commuters inching through flooded roads, taking hours to cover a few kilometres.For the city’s residents, the frustration was not with Monday’s rain. But…
A huge crater covering a large part of a road in Garden Reach Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday entrusted all govt agencies and departments concerned with the task of repairing battered roads in the port area in Garden Reach and Taratala at the earliest.The CM had earlier set a deadline of Oct 10…
The new system is GPS-enabled and will share exact coordinates from where the request has been raised to NHAI control room, which is expected to improve emergency services Ghaziabad: With most of the 86 SOS boxes on DME and NH-9 rusting, damaged or non-functional due to cable faults, vandalism or neglect, NHAI has installed QR-code…
The meeting, which was postponed last week due to “administrative reasons”, will also consider the omission of 31,533 sqm from the command area across Calangute, Parra, Assagao, Anjuna, Latambarcem, Revora, Sarvan, Torsem, Mayem, Dhargal and Bicholim Panaji: The command area development (CAD) board of the Goa Tillari irrigation project is likely to decide on Wednesday…
File photo of the deceased couple Varanasi: A couple died after the wall of an old rented house collapsed amid heavy rainfall in the Manduwadih area early Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Ravindra Nath Mishra (60) and his wife, Pratima (55).According to police, the couple were natives of Dumaria in Jharkhand. Their relatives have been…
AMC inspected 22 units across Ahmedabad on Tuesday, Aug 25 Ahmedabad: Festive season is round the corner, bringing traditional sweets into the centre stage. But a word of caution before you pass around that box of kaju katri. The chandi varakh that adds richness to a sweet’s flavour and look, and is taken as a…
A stray bull attacked a schoolgirl in Ambala Cantonment on Monday Ambala: Barely 30 hours after a stray bull attacked a schoolgirl in Lal Kurti, a stray animal knocked down a 70-year-old woman in Babyal’s Ravidas Mohalla on Tuesday, leaving her with fractures in her hand and feet.The woman, Krishna, was attacked shortly after stepping…
Pune: Two bike-borne men in helmets posed as police constables to dupe a Cantonment water supply department staffer out of Rs38,000 around 3.40am on Sunday. The suspects pretended to check the complainant’s phone to con him.The complainant, a contractual staffer with the department registered an FIR with the Wanowrie police on Monday evening.Wanowrie police senior…
Shillong: A total of 785 critical water sources have been identified across Meghalaya to date, and assessments for their rejuvenation and necessary interventions are under way, public health engineering (PHE) minister Marcuise N Marak told the assembly on Tuesday.He said the state had several water-testing laboratories, where water quality was tested every year before and…
