Vishnu Gurupura, a youth from Gurupura who has been using social media to highlight waste dumping along the Gurupura riverbank and roadside stretches in Bajpe Mangaluru: A 25-year-old from Gurupura is using social media to highlight waste dumping along the Gurupura riverbank and roadside stretches in Bajpe and Gurupura.Vishnu Gurupura, who earlier worked in Bengaluru…
Noida: The district consumer commission has ordered e-commerce major Amazon Seller Services to pay Rs 5,000 for mental harassment and Rs 1,000 as litigation costs to a consumer, holding the company liable for deficiency in service for failing to deliver a gas stove after receiving payment. However, Amazon refunded Rs 3,069 when cancelling the product…
Shillong: CM Conrad K Sangma on Sunday said his govt had adopted the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-GRAM G), raising guaranteed employment from 100 to 125 days and widening the range of eligible works, including rural roads, anganwadi centres, school buildings, livelihood initiatives and environmental conservation.The CM further said the…
Pune: Out of 11,770 complaints that Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) received between Jan and May from consumers in the Pune zone about inflated bills after smart meter installation, merely four were substantiated, minister of state (MoS) for energy, Meghna Sakore-Bordikar, said on Friday in state assembly session.She was replying to questions raised…
Pratik Kailash Sasa arrested by ACB for arranging meeting at Lajpore Central Jail bypassing official procedure Surat: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has launched an investigation into an alleged racket that arranged meetings with inmates at Lajpore Central Jail (LCJ) by bypassing official procedures in exchange for payments as low as Rs 500. Investigators said the…
MLC Ivan D’Souza addressing media in Mangaluru Saturday Mangaluru: Calling Mangaluru’s underground drainage network the city’s biggest civic challenge, MLC Ivan D’Souza alleged that despite rapid growth, successive state and central govts had failed to implement a comprehensive underground drainage (UGD) project, limiting efforts to minor repairs.Addressing mediapersons on Saturday, D’Souza said the Karnataka Legislature’s…
Bhubaneswar: Twenty-three years after a couple was allegedly paraded naked by a group of women in Jharsuguda district, a court has convicted all 14 accused.The convicts were spared jail sentence but were fined Rs 1,000 each. While the judgment was delivered on June 26 by Pratyusha Kiran, senior civil judge (women’s court)-cum-JMFC, Jharsuguda, the order…
CM Samrat Choudhary at the signing of an MoU between the UDHD and Hudco for the development of greenfield satellite townships in Patna on Friday Patna: Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (Hudco) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bihar govt’s urban development and housing department (UDHD) to provide long-term financing…
HSRP plates being installed at a fitment centre in Pune Pune: Owners of vehicles without High Security Registration Plates (HSRPs), who have neither installed them nor booked an appointment for the same, will face repeated fines every time they are caught, senior officials from the local Regional Transport Office (RTO) have warned.Regional transport officer Archana…
State education minister Mithilesh Tiwari with Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi on Thursday Patna: Bihar education minister Mithilesh Tiwari on Thursday sought Rs 1,120 crore in financial assistance from the Centre to strengthen school education infrastructure and expand quality education initiatives in the state during a meeting with Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan…
