Step-by-step guide to how rescue operations work NEW DELHI: When disaster strikes, be it a building collapse or an earthquake, the enormous pile of concrete and steel is the first hurdle between life and death. For rescue teams, extricating victims from the mounds of debris is a race against time.At a rescue site, operations shift…
Cast: Rohit Dave, Aishwarya Dinesh, Jerusha Christopher, Syed Saad, Anu Karagada, Siddharth Nair, Malavika Manohar, Subharthi Kundu and othersGenre: Historical fiction/DramaDirector: Tahera SDuration: 2hr 30minsLanguage: EnglishThere are very few books that stay in the heart and mind quite like Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. And seeing Ursula Rani Sarma’s stage adaptation of this classic,…
Chennai: The Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute (EDII), Chennai, will conduct a five-day entrepreneurship development training programme titled “You Too Can Be an Entrepreneur” from June 15 to June 19.The programme will be held at the institute’s campus in Chennai from 10am to 5pm each day and is aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to start…
Ritabrata and (R) Sandipan (L) KOLKATA: The ‘Signgate’ row over the alleged forging of Trinamool MLAs’ signatures claimed its first casualties on Monday, immediately after a press conference by Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, and threw Trinamool into even greater disarray.Trinamool was forced to expel two of its MLAs, Sandipan Saha (Entally) and Ritabrata Banerjee (Uluberia…
Govt goes old school, uses traditional lime mortar to restore Sanquelim fort The Sanquelim fort restoration has been completed using traditional conservation practices, with modern construction materials such as cement and concrete deliberately avoided during the process.Traditional lime-based mixtures prepared using organic jaggery and haritaki seeds, were used to replicate old construction techniques. Haritaki seeds,…
Gandhinagar: Among key interventions that the Gujarat govt has planned to curb accidents and save lives in road crashes is a proposal to establish special cells in all urban and rural civic bodies to function as nodal agencies for implementing various measures to control accidents.“Municipal corporations, municipalities and other local self-govt bodies have cells set…
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued a notice to the Punjab govt over a petition challenging the prohibition on the sale of meat, fish and meat products in the Amritsar Walled City, which govt declared a ‘Holy City’.A division bench of Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi and Justice Deepak Manchanda on May 29…
Lucknow: The state govt on Monday appointed Pratap Singh Baghel as the in-charge director of secondary education. Baghel was so far serving as the in-charge, basic education director.Baghel is replaced by Anil Bhushan Chaturvedi who was working as in-charge director, Literacy and Alternative Education. The change is a significant step towards strengthening administrative efficiency and…
Villagers demonstrate at Mandholi hills Monday Jhunjhunu: Villagers of Mandholi in the Neemkathana area of Sikar staged a protest Monday against the proposed approval of mining lease No. 60 in the Mandholi hills.They held a meeting at the public dharamshala of Mandoli village to register their opposition to the mining lease. Following the meeting, they…
NMC warns of HIV, hepatitis risk from unsafe injections NEW DELHI: Alarmed by the possibility of patients contracting HIV and viral hepatitis through unsafe medical procedures, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed medical colleges across the country to tighten injection safety practices, warning that such infections are entirely preventable but can occur when basic…
