A view of riverside ghats submerged amid the rise in Ganga River’s water level, in Patna earlier this week NEW DELHI: The Ganga breached the ‘highest flood mark’ at Patna’s Gandhi Ghat amid heavy rain in Bihar, with the river’s water level rising 10 cm in four hours on Saturday morning, according to an official … Read more
NEW DELHI: Authorities on Saturday demolished a mosque located inside the District Magistrate’s office complex in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur after a court upheld an earlier order declaring the structure illegal.Senior administrative officials, including the District Magistrate and Sub-Divisional Magistrate, reached the site as bulldozers began demolishing the structure. The Collectorate complex was placed under heavy … Read more
Tamil Nadu DVAC searchs former minister KN Nehru’s residence in Tiruchirappalli NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Saturday conducted searches at the residence and premises linked to DMK leader and former minister KN Nehru in connection with alleged irregularities in the Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) Department.The searches were … Read more
SC allowed him to superannuate in peace with retirement benefits NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has rewarded a wrongdoer – a man who got appointed as a junior civil engineer in Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) by producing a forged ST certificate, and, subsequently, stalled the scrutiny of his eligibility for quota for more than … Read more
Coal stocks at thermal power plants across the country have fallen to less than half the recommended level NEW DELHI: Coal stocks at thermal power plants across the country have fallen to less than half the recommended level, with 50 plants classified as having ‘critically low’ inventories as on Sept 2 amid high electricity demand … Read more
Air India Friday sacked the pilot-in-command of its badly rattled Aug 4 Phuket-Delhi NEW DELHI: Air India Friday sacked the pilot-in-command of its badly rattled Aug 4 Phuket-Delhi flight hours after Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s preliminary report concluded the “PIC was found non-negative for psycho-active substance in the confirmatory (dope) test”. Terming this confirmation a … Read more
Punjab government will raise the Dearness Allowance of around 85,000 government employees Chandigarh, Punjab government will raise the Dearness Allowance of around 85,000 government employees recruited after July 17, 2020 by 18 per cent to 60 per cent, Cabinet Minister Aman Arora said on Friday.Speaking to mediapersons here, Arora said a recommendation in this regard … Read more
Supreme Court freed a man sentenced by lower courts NEW DELHI: For the third time this week, Supreme Court freed a man sentenced by lower courts – in a kidnapping and murder case in the latest instance – questioning their analysis of evidence, and flagging loopholes in the prosecution theory tying the accused to the … Read more
‘Exceptionally rare’ failure of all 3 hydraulics MUMBAI: Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s preliminary report has confirmed what pilots and engineers call an exceptionally rare event, the near-simultaneous loss of all three hydraulic systems on the A320neo aircraft at 36,000 feet. Hydraulic systems are the fluid-pressure circuits that physically move an aircraft’s wing and tail surfaces. … Read more
Belgian PM said India and Europe were now facing similar challenges NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Friday said Europe had been slow to recognise the risks of becoming too dependent on other economies, admitting that Indian PM Narendra Modi had warned it about the problem much earlier but was not heard.De … Read more