All institutes have been directed to keep entry gates manual and ensure that students can be evacuated quickly during emergencies Noida: Coaching centres in Gautam Buddh Nagar will no longer be allowed to use biometric entry gates, as authorities tightened safety norms following the June 22 Lucknow coaching tragedy that killed 15 students. In a…
An unrecognised school functioning at Pudupet in a cramped street Chennai: Twenty-two years ago, more than 100 students had nowhere to run, when a cluster of schools functioning from a two-storey residential set-up in Kumbakonam caught fire; 94 were charred to death, and 16 were gravely injured.Now, a TOI visit in and around the city…
Officials said inspections were conducted across multiple industrial clusters in Ghaziabad, which revealed that several units were operating without mandatory environmental clearances Ghaziabad: The district administration, in coordination with the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) and the electricity department, shut down more than 250 industrial units that were discharging untreated industrial effluents into the…
