The entire 1,506-km Western Dedicated Freight Corridor will soon be operational as its final 102-km stretch nears completion. This, along with the already functional Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, significantly boosts freight train speeds. Railways is now planning a new 2,150-km corridor connecting Dankuni to Surat, designed for faster, high-capacity bulk transport. NEW DELHI: The last…
LUCKNOW: The State Drinking Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) on Sunday launched a 15-day Jal Mahotsav aimed at handing over water supply responsibilities to gram panchayats in villages that have achieved 100% piped water coverage under the Jal Jeevan Mission.The programme will run till March 22 and will be organised in more than 22,000 villages…
NEW DELHI: A passenger has been booked for allegedly smoking a beedi inside the lavatory of a Delhi-Goa flight, police said on Sunday.The incident occurred on Saturday when the accused, identified as Ashish, a Delhi resident, was travelling on an Akasa Air flight from the national capital to Goa, reported PTI.According to police, the passenger…
A controversy erupted online on Sunday after Malayalam superstar Mammootty’s visit to the newly built township for landslide survivors in Wayanad, with the actor facing criticism on social media. Senior leaders of the ruling CPM, however, sought to play down the row.The issue reportedly arose after Mammootty expressed displeasure with CPM’s Wayanad district secretary K…
NEW DELHI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Sunday described Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin‘s DMK as a “slave” of the Congress, an ally of the state’s ruling party.His remarks came a day after Stalin said Palaniswami would “meet the same fate” as outgoing Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar at the hands of…
New Delhi [India], At a defining moment in India’s clean energy transition, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched LaBL 2.0 (Lighting a Billion Lives 2.0) at an inspiring ‘Dinner of Hope’ in New Delhi — reimagining decentralized renewable energy as a catalyst for green livelihoods, women-led entrepreneurship, and measurable climate action. NEW DELHI: At…
Screen grab: X/@KumaarSaagar NEW DELHI: Monu Manesar, the accused in the 2023 killing of cousins Junaid and Nasir, returned to his native village in Gurugram on Sunday after securing bail from a Rajasthan court. He was welcomed by the residents with drums, garlands and celebrations, locals said.Manesar, whose real name is Mohit Yadav, had been…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee trained guns at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, accusing it of humiliating President Droupadi Murmu on caste grounds and ceding India’s strategic autonomy to the United States.Speaking at a party event, the Diamond Harbour MP said, “TMC National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee…
Ayatollah Khamenei; Om Birla Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reached a decision on the country’s next supreme leader following the US-Israel assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, although the name of the chosen candidate has not yet been announced. The opposition’s no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is set to come up for discussion…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday rejected allegations of a protocol breach during President Draupadi Murmu’s programme in Siliguri, questioning the timing of the criticism and suggesting it was “politically motivated”.“You are targeting Bengal on the eve of assembly elections by saying whatever pleases…
