Vehicles pass through a waterlogged road at Bahadurpur Housing Colony in Patna on Friday Patna: The Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (BUIDCO) on Friday deployed drainage machinery and personnel across the city to tackle waterlogging after early morning rainfall, using the exercise as a pre-monsoon trial run, officials said.All 91 drainage pumping stations — 56…
Thane Municipal Corporation Pune: The Maharashtra State Information Commission (SIC) has imposed a compensation of Rs10 lakh on the Thane Municipal Corporation for an “inexcusable delay” in providing information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. The commission noted that the civic body’s failure to produce documents had severely diluted the appellant’s property rights.The…
Coimbatore: A dedicated 10-bed isolation ward is being established at Coimbatore Government Medical College Hospital (CMCH) as a precautionary measure against the global threat of the Ebola virus, minister for backwards classes welfare V Sampathkumar said on Thursday. “The ward will be made operational within the next three days,” the minister said.The minister was speaking…
Dilip Jaiswal during the meeting Patna: Taking strict action, the revenue and land reforms department on Wednesday initiated departmental proceedings after framing charges against 14 circle officers (COs) and revenue officials in the state for their alleged involvement in corruption, negligence and financial irregularities.Minister Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said the Samrat govt has a zero-tolerance policy…
Thiruvananthapuram: Home minister Ramesh Chennithala on Monday directed state police chief to submit a detailed report within a week into the alleged custodial torture of a Youth Congress (YC) functionary at Kunnamkulam police station in Thrissur in 2023.The directive was issued after the victim, V S Sujith, met Chennithala in Thiruvananthapuram and personally narrated the…
Ludhiana: Local authorities have moved to freeze the salaries of dozens of striking govt schoolteachers who failed to report for national census duty, threatening to lock them out of their classrooms as well.The Ludhiana municipal corporation has asked the district education officer (DEO) take quick disciplinary action against 80 education department employees who skipped the…
Ludhiana: Local authorities have moved to freeze the salaries of dozens of striking govt schoolteachers who failed to report for national census duty, threatening to lock them out of their classrooms as well.The Ludhiana municipal corporation has asked the district education officer (DEO) take quick disciplinary action against 80 education department employees who skipped the…
Gurgaon: In a major internal administrative overhaul triggered by allegations of corruption and collusion with brokers, MCG on Tuesday reshuffled 134 clerks across departments, including large-scale transfers within the property tax branch.Officials clarified that the figure of 134 includes both clerks shifted out of the property tax department and those brought in from other branches…
Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy Monday warned employees of state-run road transport corporations against participating in the statewide bus strike scheduled for Wednesday, stating that disciplinary action will be initiated against those abstaining from duty.The warning comes after the joint action committee (JAC) of transport unions decided to go ahead with the agitation over wage revision…
INDORE: A farewell celebration for final year students at Institute of Engineering and Technology of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya turned into large-scale vandalism and disorder inside the Ramanujanam boys’ hostel, in the early hours of Sunday.Videos of the incident, widely circulating on social media, showed students dancing in semi-nude condition, shouting and damaging hostel property during…
