Photos capture the fire that erupted on the seventh floor of Atlantic Building MUMBAI: A 64-year-old man died and two firefighters were hospitalised after a fire broke out on the seventh floor of Atlantic Building on Sherly Rajan Road in Bandra West late on Wednesday night. The fire, which was brought under control close to…
Bengaluru: Reversing an almost 14-year-old decision of a single bench, the high court upheld the acquisition of 30 acres of land at Nelamangala on Bengaluru-Honnavar road in 1987.A division bench of Justices DK Singh and S Rachaiah passed the order after allowing the writ appeals filed by state govt and Sri Prasanna Anjaneya Trust.The land…
Inconvenience to the public Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation has been dragging a ₹17 crore stormwater drain project on Anna Nagar second avenue for nine months with scant regard for pedestrian safety. Of the 4.2km drain network, covering both sides of the road, just more than half has been completed. Though orders were given in Sept…
Hyderabad: In a suspected case of food poisoning, around 25 people, including 15 children, were hospitalised after consuming pani puri in Thangallapally mandal of Rajanna Sircilla district.The children and their family members are said to have consumed pani puri from a street vendor in KCR Nagar Colony. They later developed symptoms such as vomiting and…
A tiger clicked by a trap camera at Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jan Kolkata: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has asked the West Bengal forest department to address critical gaps in manpower, village relocation and preparations for the release of tigers ahead of the proposed reintroduction of big cats into north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger…
Panaji: Nearly two years after the Goa College of Engineering (GEC) recommended demolishing the structurally unsafe Panaji municipal fish market, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) has initiated steps to rebuild the facility.The civic body on Tuesday floated a request for proposal (RFP) to appoint an architect for designing a “modern, efficient and…
Medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) disinfect their equipment at an Ebola treatment centre during a ceremony to present recovery certificates to patients at the Rwambara General Reference Hospital in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Gandhinagar: The state govt has facilitated the return of a professor, who had been stranded in Ebola-affected…
Ludhiana: The city’s notoriously porous maximum-security prison has been fitted with advanced 5G signal-blocking shields after inmates used smuggled phones to run hit squads and extortion rackets from their cells.The deployment of two “V Kavach” jamming units in the Ludhiana Central Jail follows intensifying judicial pressure to disrupt criminal empires operating from Punjab’s correctional facilities….
A backlog of items is expected to dominate both sessions because neither meeting could be convened during May Chandigarh: The Chandigarh MC’s agenda branch has directed all departments to urgently submit their proposal items following the Mayor’s decision to hold the Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) meeting on June 24 and the General House meeting…
The genus Mimeusemia belongs to the forester moth group within the Noctuidae family Pune: Scientists from the western regional centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Pune have discovered a new species of forester moth in Karnataka’s Kali Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats, marking the first addition to the genus Mimeusemia in…
