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Shimla (Himachal Pradeh) [India], July 7(ANI): A convention of farmer and landowner affected by four-lane highway expanion project acro Himachal Pradeh wa held in Shimla on Monday, jointly organized by the Himachal Pradeh Kian Sabha, other farmer group, property owner, and activit aociated with CITU. The gathering aimed to formulate a long-term trategy to raie voice againt what participant called the detructive and uncientific widening of national highway, which ha reulted in land lo, diplaceme ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian software engineer Soham Parekh, currently in the eye of the storm for moonlighting for multiple Silicon Valley startups, has defended himself by saying that he was forced to work for 140 hours a week due to financial constraints. Appearing on a YouTube channel, Parekh admitted moonlighting. However, he defended himself saying that he is "not proud" but "extremely dire financial circumstances" forced him to take multiple jobs at the same time. He also c ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 4 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing Marathi-non-Marathi row, a group of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers allegedly stormed a man's residence in the Vanaz area of the city on Thursday and threatened to assault him over an objectionable social media post targeting MNS chief Raj Thackeray. The man, identified as Kedar Soman, had reportedly posted a comment on Facebook that MNS workers found offensive and disrespectful to their leader. Enraged by the post, a group o ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi govt has given in-principle approval to waive late payment surcharges on inflated water bills, which will bring relief to lakhs of people who have raised concerns about receiving inflated bills. The waiver, however, will be for domestic and govt houses, not for commercial consumers.Water minister Parvesh Verma Thursday said the scheme will be launched in two months. He said that the implementation awaits a software upgrade, shifting the existing Oracle-based system to a cloud-ba ...Read More >
U.S. and India trade negotiators were pushing on Wednesday to finalise a tariff-reducing deal ahead of President Donald Trump's July 9 negotiating deadline, but disagreements over U.S. dairy and agriculture remained unresolved. WHY ARE FARM GOODS IMPORTS SENSITIVE IN INDIA? Agriculture and its allied areas contribute just 16% to India's $3.9 trillion economy, but sustain nearly half of the country's 1.4 billion population. As farmers remain the most powerful voting bloc, Prime Minister Narendr ...Read More >
Hubballi: Around 25 households in UKT Hills, Hubballi, continue to receive foul-smelling, contaminated water. Despite repeated complaints to the corporation, no resolution has been found. Officials suspect pipeline work under the 24x7 drinking water project has led to sewage mixing with drinking water, but the exact cause remains untraced.According to a source, the area comes under Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) Ward 34. Around 80 family members are facing various health issues. T ...Read More >
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A previously unknown Indian software engineer is now reportedly at the center of a brewing controversy in Silicon Valley. According to multiple reports, including a social post from an AI startup founder, the engineer in question, Soham Parekh, has been working at several startups at the same time. Parekh, who according to India Today, is believed to be based in India, is alleged to have worked at up to four or five startups -- many of them backed by Y Combinator -- at t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) State-owned NHAI on Thursday said it has suspended a contractor, an authority engineer and an NHAI official for the distressed condition of pavement at some locations on the Amritsar-Jamnagar Corridor section in Gujarat. NHAI in a statement said an incident of distressed condition of pavement crust at some locations of six-lane Sanchore - Santalpur Section of Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor (NH-754K) in Gujarat (Pkg-4 from Kilana to Santalpur) constructed by CDS Infra ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) State-owned NHAI on Thursday said it has suspended a contractor, an authority engineer and an NHAI official for the distressed condition of pavement at some locations on the Amritsar-Jamnagar Corridor section in Gujarat. NHAI in a statement said an incident of distressed condition of pavement crust at some locations of six-lane Sanchore - Santalpur Section of Amritsar-Jamnagar Economic Corridor (NH-754K) in Gujarat (Pkg-4 from Kilana to Santalpur) constructed by CDS Infra ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Chennai's water bodies may be contaminated with Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), also known as 'forever chemicals', but Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) says there is no mandate nor technology available to treat them, both in drinking water and wastewater. The submission was made by CMWSSB superintending engineer Sivakumar in an affidavit before the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The tribunal had registered a suo m ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: An NHAI engineer posted in Shimla has alleged that he and another officer were assaulted by Himachal Pradesh rural development and panchayati raj minister Anirudh Singh during a site inspection on Monday. Both the officers have been admitted to Indira Gandhi Medical College & Hospital (IGMC) in Shimla.In his complaint to the Dhalli police station in-charge, the NHAI engineer, Achal Jindal, said he, along with site engineer Yogesh, had gone to attend a meeting called by Shimla SDM to r ...Read More >
Shimla, July 2 (PTI) A day after he was booked for allegedly assaulting two NHAI officials, Panchayati Raj Minister Anirudh Singh on Wednesday denied the allegations and said that "the FIR does not mean that I am guilty." Singh also claimed widespread irregularities in road construction works by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and called its officials the "most corrupt in the country". The alleged incident occurred on Monday when the minister was inspecting a building collapse si ...Read More >
Shimla, Jul 2 (PTI) The controversy over a five-storey building collapsing in Bhatta Kuffar area in Shimla saw two officials of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) being booked on Wednesday on complaints by residents for allegedly endangering life and intentional hurt. This came a day after a case was filed against Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Minister Anirudh Singh on charges of wrongful restraint and voluntarily causing hurt after he allegedly assaulted the two NHAI officials while ...Read More >
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 2 (ANI): A day after a First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Himachal Pradesh's Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Minister Anirudh Singh for allegedly assaulting an NHAI official, the minister on Tuesday categorically denied the charges, saying he would fully cooperate with the investigation and face the law. He also accused the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) of carrying out "unscientific and dangerous" construction work across ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - Dozens have died in a major explosion at Sigachi Industries Pvt. Ltd., a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Pashamylaram, Sangareddy, Telangana, India. The blast, which happened at around 9:10 a.m. on Monday, 30 June 2025, has become one of the state's deadliest industrial disasters. At least 44 workers lost their lives, and many more suffered serious injuries. As of Wednesday, 2 July, search teams are still looking for 12 missing workers, and there are concerns that the number o ...Read More >
Jaipur: Police in Didwana have stepped up their probe into a cross-border smuggling case in which they arrested two arms and drug smugglers on June 27 for supplying Austrian Glock and Chinese Norinco pistols. It has emerged that the case has links to a massive Rs 300-crore heroin consignment seized by Punjab's Amritsar police near the India-Pakistan border in Barmer on June 30. Canada-based Joben Kaler was identified as the main overseas handler of the heroin consignment. Didwana-Kuchaman police ...Read More >
NEW DELHI/SHIMLA: Shimla police registered an FIR against rural development and Himachal Pradesh minister Anirudh Singh Rana late Monday night for allegedly assaulting two NHAI engineers officials who were visiting the site of a collapsed five-storey building.The FIR was registered on the basis of NHAI manager Achal Jindal's complaint at Dhali police station under five sections of BNS dealing with assaulting a public servant, voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult with intent to provoke br ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) For the upcoming Kanwar Yatra, scheduled to start from July 11, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has formed a panel of 11 officials to coordinate closely with magistrate offices and Kanwar camp organisers to provide clean drinking water. Officials have been directed to carry out the preparations with utmost priority and prepare a schedule for providing water tankers, including frequency and volume. Also Read | Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin Apologises for Death of 29 Year- ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) For the upcoming Kanwar Yatra, scheduled to start from July 11, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has formed a panel of 11 officials to coordinate closely with magistrate offices and Kanwar camp organisers to provide clean drinking water. Officials have been directed to carry out the preparations with utmost priority and prepare a schedule for providing water tankers, including frequency and volume. "Sufficient water tankers shall be deployed at all designated Kanwar camps. To e ...Read More >
Tirumala: TTD additional executive officer Ch Venkaiah Chowdary announced that a special application will be developed within a month exclusively for professional Srivari Sevaks. He conducted a review meeting on Monday at Annamayya Bhavan in Tirumala, along with JEO Veerabrahmam, focusing on professional volunteer services in Srivari Seva. Speaking on the occasion, he said that under the instructions of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, a framework is being developed to utilise the services ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The anti-corruption branch (ACB) of the Delhi government has arrested two individuals, including a suspended executive engineer and a private contractor, for allegedly siphoning off over Rs 4.6 crore meant for civil works that were never carried out in the Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Department, officials said on Monday. They said the scam involved the release of payments for nonexistent roads and drains in Siraspur village in north Delhi and painting works in Burari, based o ...Read More >
The Delhi government's anti-corruption branch (ACB) has arrested a suspended executive engineer and a private contractor for defrauding the Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Department of Rs 4.6 crore fraud, an official said on Monday. The two accused allegedly facilitated fraudulent payments worth over Rs 4.6 crore for civil works that were never executed. The irregularities relate to drainage and road projects in a north Delhi village, Siraspur, which were found to exist only on paper. "T ...Read More >
Haridwar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday demanded that hotel, dhaba and eatery owners on the Kanwar Yatra routes should display their names and identities on boards outside their business establishments. The owners, who hide their identities under fake names, on the Kanwar Yatra routes should not be spared, he told reporters here. "Tampering with faith of the Hindu devotees during the Kanwar Yatra will not be tolerated," said the Unnao MP. The food shops on the Kanwa ...Read More >
Bhopal: Seven engineers including two chief engineers (CEs) of the Madhya Pradesh government have been suspended while departmental enquiry has been ordered against a retired superintendent engineer (SE) in the connection with the faulty design of a railway over bridge (ROB) here, providing a dangerous 90-degree turn. The action against the engineers comes after chief minister Mohan Yadav took serious note of the issue and ordered an inquiry into it, a spokesman of the state government said her ...Read More >
Bhopal, Jun 29 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh government has suspended seven PWD engineers and ordered a departmental probe against a retired superintendent engineer for the 'faulty design' of a new rail over-bridge in Bhopal having an unusual 90-degree turn. The construction agency and design consultant have been blacklisted, and a committee has been formed to make necessary improvements in the rail over-bridge (ROB), Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said in a post on X on Saturday evening. The newly bui ...Read More >
Seven engineers including two chief engineers were suspended with immediate effect (File) Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday suspended seven engineers including two chief engineers of the Public Works Department for the faulty design of the new Rail Over Bridge in Aishbagh area of the city with an unusual 90-degree turn. "I took cognizance of the serious negligence in the construction of Aishbagh ROB and ordered an inquiry. On the basis of the inquiry report, action has been ta ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) A little while ago, when I looked out of the window, we were passing over Hawaii. From here, we see sunrise and sunset 16 times a day, said Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to enter the International Space Station (ISS), during a video interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. Shukla, who became only the second Indian to travel to space after Rakesh Sharma's historic journey in 1984, reached the ISS on Thursday as part of the ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) A little while ago, when I looked out of the window, we were passing over Hawaii. From here, we see sunrise and sunset 16 times a day, said Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to enter the International Space Station (ISS), during a video interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. Shukla, who became only the second Indian to travel to space after Rakesh Sharma's historic journey in 1984, reached the ISS on Thursday as part of the internati ...Read More >
Mumbai: Uddhav and Raj Thackeray will hold a joint protest march of their parties in the city on July 5 against what they allege is imposition of Hindi in the state's schools from Class 1 through the new three-language policy. This will be the first time they will come together on a political platform after Raj Thackeray's decision to quit Shiv Sena to form MNS nearly two decades ago.There has been speculation of a reunion of the estranged cousins for the coming civic polls, and the protest marc ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced that the new flyover connecting the Downtown area to Six Mile area will be inaugurated in July."We are happy to announce that the new flyover near Downtown Hospital Point will be inaugurated on July 6, 2025," Sarma said on 'X' on Thursday.According to officials from the Public Works Department (PWD), the approximately 650-metre-long flyover, construction of which began last year, is being developed at an estimated cost of Rs 85 cro ...Read More >
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