Gurgaon: Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) has suspended three officials following a major technical failure at a substation and a fire that triggered widespread outages across the city and halted Rapid Metro operations.The action against junior engineers (JEs) — Sandeep Singh, Brijesh and Sandeep Nain, all in charge of the Sector 72 substation —…
Kolkata: According to the preliminary postmortem report, cops on Sunday said South Dum Dum Municipality Trinamool councillor Sanjay Das died by suicide. However, cops are probing if there was provocation or external involvement.Police have also launched an inquiry into allegations that banners accusing Das of land grabbing, corruption and extortion were put up outside his…
Mapusa: Pre-monsoon rainfall on Sunday led to severe waterlogging on Mandrem road at Junaswada in Mandrem, leaving motorists stranded and triggering chaos amongst the residents. The deluge served as warning of what lies ahead for the area if drainage issues left unaddressed.Locals blame haphazard construction and state that stone fences are choking natural water outlets….
Varanasi: Body of a 15-year-old girl was found lying in a pool of blood almost 200 meters away from her home in a village under the limits of Padri police station area of Mirzapur district on Sunday morning.“We have arrested the girl’s boyfriend Sajan alias Rajan (18) and teams have been deployed for arrest of…
File photo of Hemant Modi in police custody Ahmedabad: Escaping the long arm of law takes audacity, knowledge of how the system works, and its loopholes. The case of Hemant Modi, the absconder-actor, who hoodwinked the system for 12 years, is unravelling act after act, role after role. Police say that Modi — an aspiring…
A three-day Punjab bus strike has been called off following state government’s intervention. Ludhiana: Public transport unions in Punjab have suspended a planned three-day strike that threatened to paralyse state-run bus networks, following a last-minute negotiation window opened by state officials.The Punjab Roadways, Punbus, and PRTC Contract Workers Union called off the walkout — originally…
Panchkula: In a move aimed at improving road safety and strengthening accident investigations, a training programme on the iRAD (Integrated Road Accident Database) app was held at the police commissioner’s office in Sector 4 Sunday.Developed by the ministry of road transport and highways in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the digital platform seeks…
Pune: Development and infrastructure projects across the city are proceeding at breakneck speed, more often than not leaving significant collateral damage in their wake.Residents have been repeatedly pointing out that ill-planned ventures tend to do more harm than good — that wider roads, new bridges, flyovers, subways and more should not worsen existing civic issues,…
Shillong: The mortal remains of music teacher Kresitha Gabil Momin, who died in Dubai on Thursday, were received by her family members at Guwahati Airport on Sunday for the onward journey to her native place of Rongjeng, East Garo Hills district.The 41-year-old violin teacher at the Arab Unity School LLC in Dubai had suffered a…
Lucknow: Panic gripped villages along the Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary after a leopard entered a house in Kakaraha village in UP’s Bahraich district and tried to drag away a seven-year-old girl, as she slept inside a mosquito net.The attack took place around 3am on Saturday. Villagers said the leopard entered the house of Chunna and attacked…
