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Panaji: The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (Goa-SEIAA) has granted additional time to the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) at Dhargalim, Pernem, to explain why it failed to pay the pending penalty amount imposed for violations during the construction of the institute.The accountant general (audit) for Goa state, through a letter dated Feb 3, pointed out to the Goa-SEIAA that the AIIA was required to pay a penalty equivalent to 1% of the total project cost, amounting to Rs 1.3 crore based on the project cost of Rs 135 crore. In addition, it was also required to pay…
Bathinda: The Bathinda district police on Monday claimed to have arrested one person and seized 720 bottles of liquor, which was being smuggled from Haryana in a tractor trailer.The seizure was made late Sunday night at Pathrala village in Bathonda, said the police.Following a tip off, a team from police post Pathrala near Haryana border stopped a tractor trailer. The tractor trailer was being escorted by two persons on a motorcycle and when the police party stopped the tractor, the on the bikers fled, the police added.Inspector Sukhwinder Singh, SHO, Sangat police station, said the trailer was full of fodder…
Accident on Agra-Lucknow Expressway killed 6 LUCKNOW: At least six people were killed and over 10 injured after a bus overturned on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Unnao on Monday.Reportedly, the bus was travelling from Delhi to Bihar when it lost control and overturned near Kilometre Marker 262. The injured were taken to the Lucknow Trauma Centre for treatment.One of the deceased was sub-inspector Ramchandra, who was travelling from Siwan in Bihar to Delhi along with prisoner Chhatrapal when the mishap occurred.For Uttar Pradesh, the series of road accidents and deaths continues. A few days ago, in a separate incident, a…
Patna: Police arrested an armed criminal who allegedly attempted to rob a cash van outside the HDFC Bank branch near Vaishali roundabout under Kadamkuan police station area on Monday afternoon. Two of his accomplices managed to escape on a motorbike.The incident took place around 3.30pm when the cash van arrived near the bank after collecting cash from a coaching institute in Kankarbagh. According to police, three robbers tried to snatch cash boxes from the vehicle, but alert security guards foiled the attempt.The accused, identified as Punasi Paswan, 42, a resident of Naubatpur, was overpowered by bank guards and local residents…
Nagpur: With summer growing harsher and this year’s monsoon forecast coming in below normal, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has launched a citywide initiative to revive long-neglected public wells, positioning them as supplementary sources to buffer the city against any shortfall in the months ahead.The civic body has floated tenders for restoration works in Hanuman Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Gandhibagh, Lakadganj and Mangalwari zones. Officials said similar works will be taken up in other zones after the model code of conduct for the legislative council elections is lifted. NMC had earlier undertaken similar restoration works at the Sonegaon Amrai well, Motibagh…
Kolkata: In a major breakthrough for Indian biodiversity research, scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have developed the country’s first and largest DNA barcode reference library for cockroaches, uncovering several undocumented and endemic lineages found nowhere else in the world.The study, published in the international taxonomy journal Zootaxa, revealed that India’s hidden cockroach diversity is far greater than previously recognised.The research was a collaborative effort conducted by scientists from ZSI’s Western Regional Centre (Pune), Southern Regional Centre (Chennai) and Prof. Ramkrishna More College. The team generated over 100 high-quality DNA barcodes, significantly changing our understanding of these ancient…
Tehran , May 26 : Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei on Tuesday accused the US of committing a “despicable war crime” following a missile strike on a sports hall in Lamerd, Fars Province, that Tehran says killed 24 civilians, including teenage volleyball players and a two-year-old child, while injuring more than 130 people. In a post on X, Baghaei said he was briefed by the Iranian member of Parliament for Mehr, Mousa Mousavi, about a ” devastating American missile strike” on a residential area and sports hall in the city of Lamerd.” On the afternoon of Saturday, 9 Esfand…
Protests over the production of cancer-linked Pfas chemicals have spread across India, after an investigation revealed that an Italian factory shut down due to an environmental scandal was bought by an Indian company and partly rebuilt.At the end of last year, the Guardian revealed that the former Miteni plant in Vicenza had been acquired by the Indian company Laxmi Organic Industries. The factory produced Pfas and was shut down in 2018 after being linked to one of Italy’s worst environmental contamination scandals.In June 2025, former Miteni executives were convicted over contamination linked to the plant, in a first-instance ruling widely…
Mumbai: An Air India Express Boeing 737-800 operating a night flight to Kannur suffered damage during take-off at Muscat airport after the aircraft lined up with runway edge lights instead of the runway centreline at night, said sources. Oman’s Air Accidents Investigation Sector (AAIS) has classified the occurrence as an accident and launched an investigation.The incident occurred on May 15 after flight IX 712 from Muscat to Kannur had lined up for departure at 9.10 pm, local time. The aircraft, registered as VT-AXR, entered runway 26L from taxiway E7 and aligned with the right-hand edge lights before commencing take-off. According…
New Delhi: A drop in the Yamuna water level at Wazirabad during peak summer has disrupted operations at two major Delhi Jal Board (DJB) water treatment plants, affecting supply in several parts of the capital and triggering complaints of shortages, low pressure and contaminated water.Officials said production at the Chandrawal and Wazirabad plants has declined as both are operating below optimum capacity due to reduced raw water availability in the Wazirabad pondage area. The Wazirabad barrage, which serves as the main holding point for raw water received through the Yamuna channel, requires a minimum level of 674.5 feet above sea…