ECoR Launches ‘Plastic-Free Station Premises’ Drive Ahead of World Environment Day 2025

Bhubaneswar, 1st June 2025: In view of World Environment Day 2025, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has launched a comprehensive awareness and action campaign from 22nd May to 5th June, focusing on this year’s global theme—“Ending Plastic Pollution”. This initiative aims to foster a Plastic-Free Environment across Railway Stations, Station Premises and in Trains, underlining Indian…

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Israel says Gaza City encircled, Hamas resists with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels

Gaza, 3/11: Israeli forces on Thursday encircled Gaza City – the Gaza Strip’s main city – in their assault on Hamas, the military said, but the Palestinian militant group resisted their drive with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels. The city in the north of the Gaza Strip has become the focus of attack for Israel,…

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Senior BJP leader resigns from Assam government post over delimitation of Nagaon LS seat

Dispur, 19/8: Senior BJP leader and former union minister Rajen Gohain on Friday resigned as the chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation in protest against the delimitation of the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency and claimed it will be impossible for the party to win from that seat in the future. Gohain, who had…

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Air India plane crash | Pilots gave frantic Mayday calls to Ahmedabad ATC before crash

New Delhi, 12/6:  “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday,” pilots of Air India’s ill-fated ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft headed to London screamed to the Air Traffic Controllers minutes after it took off for London’s Gatwick airport from Ahmedabad. The frantic efforts of the ATCs to reach the pilots – Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kundar – did not…

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Israel launches preventative attack’ against Iran, says Defence Minister

Tehran, 28/2: Israel on Saturday, February 28, launched preventive attacks on Iran, the country’s defence minister said. Iranian local media said explosions were heard in central Tehran. Meanwhile, Israel Defense Forces said sirens were sounded all throughout Israel as a proactive alert to prepare the public for the possibility of missiles being launched toward the…

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