Durgapur: A 26-year-old contractual worker died in an accident at Durgapur Steel Plant’s blast furnace department on Friday night during maintenance work.West Burdwan’s Sk Sahidul was working alone on Friday night when an accident took place around 11pm. Workers suspect a guardrail broke while he was working, causing Sahidul to fall into a ladle of…
Nagpur: In a startling allegation against the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), Standing Committee chairperson Shivani Dani-Wakhare on Friday claimed that some civic engineers accept money to avoid visiting project sites, raising serious questions over supervision of public works and accountability within the civic administration.Addressing reporters after the Standing Committee meeting, Dani said she has directed…
Nagpur: A seven-day delay in initiating action against the Gujarat-based contractor held responsible for a woman’s electrocution in Auliya Nagar has drawn sharp criticism from the Opposition in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).Leader of Opposition and local corporator Sanjay Mahakalkar alleged that the contractor was being shielded by NMC brass despite a departmental inquiry blaming…
Nagpur: Two recent fatalities have laid bare the authorities’ contrasting response depending on whether responsibility appears to lie with a private party or a govt agency. While a fatal wall collapse at a private building triggered swift action by the civic body and local MLA, no comparable action has followed the electrocution of a 60-year-old…
Nagpur: More than 72 hours after a 60-year-old woman, Afroz Begum Azim Khan, was electrocuted after stepping into a live cable in a water-filled ditch at Auliyanagar near Taj Bagh on Wednesday night, Sakkardara police failed to follow the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in an electrocution death for fixing accountability before registering an offence. “The…
Prayagraj: Workers of City and Yamunapar Congress Committees on Wednesday held BJP led union and state governments responsible for the alleged theft of offerings and donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.Party workers staged a protest and demonstration at the district collectorate on Wednesday. Following the call given by the Uttar Pradesh Congress committee, workers…
Relatives have written to the PMO, UP chief minister’s office, and the defence and home ministries, seeking a crime branch probe Abhishek Chauhan went missing on May 29 during a trek to Pindari Glacier in Bageshwar Abhishek, who works with Larsen & Toubro and lives in Sector 80 with a flatmate, left for Bageshwar on…
Kanpur: A private hospital at Machchhar Chauraha in Jalaun’s Orai Kotwali area has come under the scanner following allegations of medical negligence and inhuman treatment after the death of a four-year-old child on Thursday.Family members alleged that the child died due to negligence in treatment.According to reports, Amjad Khan, a resident of Bhed village under…
People protest demanding justice for the lynching victim Bhubaneswar: A two-member team from National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will launch a five-day investigation starting Monday into the recent lynching of a railway constable on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.The NHRC took suo motu cognisance on May 11 of the death of Soumya Ranjan Swain (32), who…
Ex-health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu sought an independent probe, seizure of vehicles and strict action against the guilty Chandigarh_ Congress Demands FIR in Mohali MC Election Vehicle Dispute: MC candidate alleges Congress planted liquor laden SUV, Balbir Sidhu demands FIR. Senior Congress Leader and former Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said here today that…
