A damaged road near Race Course and Hindustan Church in Pune Cantonment Board limit Pune: Several key roads in the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) limits have become extremely challenging due to potholes after the recent spells of heavy rainfall, triggering widespread criticism from residents and civic activists.They alleged the cantonment authorities failed to undertake adequate…
Residents raise slogans against LDA Lucknow: Residents of Jankipuram Extension staged an unusual protest on Sunday, organising a ‘Keechad Mahotsav’ (slush festival) to highlight years of waterlogging and pothole-ridden roads in the area. With monsoon showers worsening the condition of the stretch, locals gathered at the waterlogged road, held placards and raised slogans, turning rain-filled…
Spot where a three-year-old boy was killed after a concrete sewer pipe being lifted by a crane slipped and fell during underground drainage work near Puzhal on Saturday night. He was walking with his father to buy sweets when the accident took place. A crane engaged by the contractor was lowering one of the giant…
Calangute: Saligao residents have alleged that despite pointing out structural violations and misrepresentation of facts in the construction of a 24-apartment residential project at Bairo Alto Vaddo, authorities, including the town and country planning (TCP) department, Saligao village panchayat and the local MLA, have repeatedly failed to conduct a site inspection.“They are simply avoiding taking…
Lucknow: In Lucknow’s Jankipuram Extension, anger over a waterlogged, pothole-riddled service road has spilled into a protest that is equal parts sarcasm and civic desperation.Residents of multiple apartment complexes have issued a mock invitation to a ‘Keechad Mahotsav’ — a slush festival — naming public representatives and officials as ‘chief guests’ to witness what they…
GHAZIABAD: A three-year-old girl allegedly drowned in rainwater that collected outside her home in Vijay Nagar’s Sarvodaya Nagar area amid heavy rainfall on Thursday morning. The girl, Manvi alias Pallavi, was found lying in a lane near her house after the water receded and was declared dead on arrival at a nearby private hospital.The girl’s…
NHAI had identified 110 unauthorised accesses along the roughly 20-km stretch of the NH-9 and DME from UP Gate to Dasna, and closed at least four at Aditya World City, Wave City and Aradhyam with jersey barriers Ghaziabad: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), acting on Supreme Court orders to shut illegal accesses along NH-9…
Bhubaneswar: Most of the residents who have been slapped with notice by BMC to reduce the height of their respective structures are upset, as they believe many structures taller than theirs have been left out.They said mobile towers in the Baramunda area look small in comparison to buildings and apartments as well as the Baramunda…
In Thane, countless individuals united despite torrential rains to express their objections to infrastructure developments jeopardizing Sanjay Gandhi National Park Thane: Hundreds of citizens, trekkers and environmentalists came together Sunday morning expressing their solidarity to protect the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) and the surrounding forest area from the onslaught of several infrastructure projects which…
Seven trees were cut down in Beguvalli near Mandagadde for the Shivamogga–Thirthahalli National Highway (NH-169) expansion project Shivamogga: A wave of public resentment has erupted against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and forest department officials following the felling of seven trees at Beguvalli near Mandagadde for the Shivamogga–Thirthahalli National Highway (NH-169) expansion project.The…
