The exercise brought together 254 participants from 26 countries NEW DELHI: A four-day multinational maritime security training engagement, Operation Southern Readiness 26-2, commenced at the Southern Naval Command in Kochi on Monday. Hosted by the Indian Navy’s Southern Naval Command, the engagement is being conducted under the aegis of the Navy-led Combined Task Force 154…
Kolkata: The Online Cab Operators Guild has urged state transport minister Arjun Singh to ban the fare-bidding feature, used by private ride-hailing apps, saying the system was “hurting drivers and passengers alike”. They asked the department to “mandate uniform, fixed grid-pricing guidelines”.The bidding model allows passengers and drivers to negotiate fares in real time. The…
Mumbai: Driver negligence and rash driving were responsible for the three latest fatal BEST bus crashes in Mankhurd, Dadar and Andheri, the findings of an internal inquiry by the undertaking has revealed.Speaking to the media after the committee meeting on Tuesday afternoon, BEST general manager Sonia Sethi said preliminary investigations pointed to driver error as…
New Delhi: Monday’s mayhem during the ‘Sandad Chalo’ march witnessed “strange inaction” from the police during the “golden hour”, according to several officers.Although the agitation had been announced well in advance, and both Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police’s intelligence wing had provided precise, actionable inputs regarding a massive build-up of demonstrators, the command centre remained…
Supporters of the Cockroach Janata Party and members of the Communist Party of India (CPI) stage a protest at the CPI state office in Chennai on Monday in support of the agitation being held in Delhi by the Cockroach Janata Party and social activists against the NEET examination. Chennai: Students and professors have assembled at…
Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Tuesday arrested a junior engineer (JE) of South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited (SBPDCL) and a private technician while they were allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 4,000 for providing a new electricity connection in Bhagalpur district.According to a press release issued by vigilance department, Amit Kumar, posted…
Dumka: Two persons, including a driver, were killed after an overloaded tractor transporting steel rods overturned on the Godda-Mahagama stretch of NH-133 near Kakna village in Godda district late on Monday.The deceased were identified as Sunil Mahto, 40, the tractor driver, and Niwas Bauri, 32, a labourer from Pandubathan village. Bauri was sitting atop the…
The upgrade aims to improve traffic flow while enhancing the corridor’s urban landscape Ranchi: State govt has accorded administrative approval for a Rs 36.30-crore project to upgrade the 2.6-km stretch from Dhurwa intersection to the police headquarters on the Birsa Chowk-Project Bhawan-Chandni Chowk road in the city.Besides widening and strengthening the carriageway, the project will…
New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Shree Chandrashekhar on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the bail plea of lawyer-activist Surendra Gadling in the 2016 Gadchiroli arson case. He is the third judge to recuse himself in the case after Justice Atul Chandurkar and Justice MM Sundresh, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.At the outset of the hearing, which…
Kolkata: The city has reported a surge in swine flu cases (H1N1) over the past fortnight, with several patients being hospitalised with severe symptoms. The surge peaked with monsoon rain gaining intensity, as H1N1—one of the several subtypes of swine flu—thrived in temperature fluctuation and high humidity, said experts.Common symptoms among Kolkata patients were a…
