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…
Lucknow: Cloudy skies and light showers brought some relief to residents on Tuesday from humid conditions.Light drizzle was reported in several parts of Lucknow from the morning, while the sky remained cloudy throughout the day. Evening showers further eased the discomfort and made it more pleasant for commuters.Rainfall recorded from 8:30 am on Monday to…
Jaipur: Former state chief minister Ashok Gehlot Tuesday termed the Centre’s ongoing caste census process “completely flawed” and alleged that the methodology could defeat the very purpose of collecting caste-wise data. Gehlot questioned the use of open-ended questions to record caste identities, arguing that the same caste is known by different names, sub-castes and regional…
