Thiruvananthapuram, 20/8: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday inaugurated Rs 2,400-crore Kerala Solid Waste Management Project (KSWMP) as part of the second phase of its ‘Malinya Muktham Navakeralam’ (garbage free) campaign. He posted about the launch on social media. Addressing a gathering, Vijayan said the southern state was being urbanised at a rapid pace…
Kolkata, 20/8: A 28-year-old government doctor allegedly killed his wife in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and surrendered before the police on Sunday, officials said. The incident happened in Helencha in Bagda police station area, they said. Dr Arindam Bala, who works at the state-run SSKM Hospital, went to the police station in the…
New Delhi, 20/8: The Centre on Sunday approved the release of Rs 200 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund as advance assistance to Himachal Pradesh to help the rain-battered state undertake relief measures for affected people. A spokesperson of the Union Home Ministry said the Centre had earlier approved the advance release of Rs…
Moscow, 20/8: Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and smashed into the Moon. Russia’s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit on Saturday. “The apparatus moved…
Islamabad, 20/8: At least 18 passengers, including women and children, were killed and 16 injured in a fatal accident on a motorway in Punjab province of Pakistan on Sunday morning, police said. The bus en route to Islamabad from Karachi carried about 40 passengers when it collided with a pickup van at Pindi Bhattian section…
New Delhi, 20/8:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 79th birth anniversary. India’s youngest prime minister, Gandhi held office during 1984-89. He was assassinated by a LTTE suicide bomber. On his birth anniversary, my tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji,’ Modi said on X,…
Chattisgarh, 20/8: The ruling Congress is aiming to win at least 75 of the 90 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, party’s state in-charge Kumari Selja has said. The state Assembly polls are due this year-end. Talking to reporters here on Saturday after meetings of the Chhattisgarh Congress political affairs committee and the…
Ladakh, 19/8: Eight soldiers were feared dead after their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Leh district of Ladakh on Saturday, officials said. The accident took place at Kerey in southern Ladakh’s Nyoma Saturday evening, the officials said. They said a rescue operation was underway at the site.
Leh, 19/8: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday rode a motorcycle from Leh to Pangong Lake in the Union Territory of Ladakh on the eve of his father Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary, a party spokesman said. The former Congress president is currently on a tour of Ladakh — his first since the region was…
Chattisgarh, 19/8: Seeking to make inroads in Chhattisgarh, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced ten “guarantees” for the upcoming assembly polls in the Congress-ruled state including free electricity, monthly `samman rashi’ for women and Rs 3,000 monthly allowance for the unemployed. Addressing an AAP workers convention, the Delhi chief minister said his…
