Kanpur: Two people died and three others were seriously injured after a speeding car allegedly lost control while trying to avoid cattle and hit a highway crash barrier on the Kanpur-Jhansi Highway on Tuesday night, police said.The accident took place near Mawar village in the Bhognipur police station area of Kanpur Dehat.The deceased were identified…
Kolkata: A clash broke out in Behala on Saturday evening between local residents and workers of a quick-commerce delivery hub, which reportedly left three persons injured.Residents said delivery vehicles were blocking a road and causing disturbance. Animesh Jana, who serves in the Indian Armed Forces, alleged that delivery workers attacked him and his family with…
Jharsuguda: A school bus carrying students of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya was stuck on a muddy temporary diversion road in Lakhanpur block of Jharsuguda district on Monday morning.The bus was on its way to the school when it ran into trouble near an under-construction culvert on the main approach road, forcing vehicles to use an earthen…
Kanpur: A 45-year-old man’s body was found under suspicious circumstances by the roadside in the Purani Chungi area under the Cantt police station limits late on Saturday.On receiving information, a Cantt police team reached the spot, took the body into custody and sent it for a postmortem examination.During the preliminary investigation, the deceased remained unidentified,…
Shillong: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) on Friday reiterated its opposition to uranium mining in Meghalaya, alleging that some MLAs and outsiders were pressurizing Domiasiat residents to sell their land at low prices for the project.Speaking after the election of a new KSU body in Domiasiat in West Khasi Hills district, KSU president Raymond Kharjana…
Kanpur: A 25-year-old man drowned in the Ganga at Parmat’s Kamleshwar Ghat in Kanpur, while another was rescued after the duo allegedly ventured into deep water during a holy dip on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Pankaj, while the survivor, Anuj, 27, was also from Unnao district. The two had come for Ganga darshan and…
Supply is expected to be restored at full capacity only on Saturday, but people are sceptical about the water pressure being adequate Pune: Water supply to residents of Pashan, Sutarwadi, Baner and Balewadi areas was hampered for the third consecutive day as the civic body struggled to complete repairs to the main pipeline till Friday…
The blunder has exposed how field estimates are prepared from desks without conducting mandatory physical site surveys. Ludhiana: A severe planning lapse by municipal corporation officials has come to light on the Shivpuri-Karabara Road in the North constituency, where a newly laid 900-foot water pipeline had to be uprooted after workers discovered a functional 8-inch…
Krishnagiri: Revenue officials on Tuesday issued flood warnings to people living on the banks of the Thenpennai river as 1,203 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water was being released from the Kelavarapalli dam in Krishnagiri district. Officials advised people not to bathe or wash clothes in the river.The inflow into the Kelavarapalli dam stood…
Ghaziabad: A 15-year-old girl suffered severe injuries after falling from the first-floor balcony of a building while attempting to escape an alleged sexual assault by a neighbour in Khoda. Police have detained a minor in the case.The girl, who studies in Class IX, lives with her family on the first floor of a three-storey building,…
