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The L-shaped, air-conditioned skywalk, equipped with travelators, was launched in March 2023 with a one-year completion target Noida: Noida Authority has ordered quality tests on steel being used in the under-construction Sector 51-52 skywalk and an RCC drain between sectors 50 and 51, after an inspection found alleged sub-standard steel at both sites.The authority’s technical audit cell has collected steel samples from both projects and will get them tested by specialised institutions such as IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee or Shri Ram Institute. Payments to the contractors have also been ordered to be withheld until the test reports are received.S P…

Pune: Consumer complaints over the lack of transparency in cloud kitchen operations are increasingly putting the spotlight on food safety enforcement in the city.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been receiving several complaints, ranging from misleading restaurant identities on food delivery apps and undisclosed kitchen locations to concerns over hygiene standards and food handling practices.“We don’t know where the meals are being prepared or under what conditions. The FDA needs to seriously investigate this. If restaurants with front-facing operations are being pulled up for poor hygiene, then imagine the condition of cloud kitchens,” said Mayuri Padhye, a resident of…

Bicholim: Bicholim police arrested Savalo Korgaonkar of Deulwada, Dhargalim, for allegedly stealing Rs 5,000 from the donation box of Shree Kalbhairav Temple, Saptakoteshwar Devasthan, Narve. Police said Korgaonkar is also involved in 10 other similar thefts in other parts of the state.As per the complaint filed by temple secretary Mandar Sardessai, the accused allegedly entered the temple through the open hall on Aug 1, broke the lock on the donation box and fled with cash and coins.Police identified him through CCTV footage, traced him to Cortalim, and brought him to Bicholim police station on Saturday night. He was produced in…

Gursevak Singh succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on Sunday morning, three days after the attack Mohali: A 48-year-old govt school headmaster, Gursevak Singh, was murdered after unidentified assailants attacked him with an axe and sharp-edged weapons outside his residence in Kharar. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on Sunday morning, three days after the attack.Following his death, the police converted the earlier attempt-to-murder case into a murder case and booked school teacher Harpreet Kaur and her husband, Sartaj Singh, in connection with the killing. Harpreet Kaur is also posted at Government School, Kumbra, where Gursevak Singh…

Ayodhya: A meeting of the religious committee of Ram Temple was held late Saturday evening in Ayodhya to discuss preparations for the upcoming Sawan Jhula celebrations and issues related to the ‘darshan’ of Ram Lalla.It was decided in the meeting that devotees will get more time for ‘darshan’ during Jhula celebrations, special ‘darshan’ arrangements will be made for seers.The meeting was attended by treasurer of Ram Temple Trust Govind Dev Giri, Kamal Nayan Das (representative of Trust president Nritya Gopal Das), trustees Jinendra Das, Vishwaprasanna Tirtha, Ramanand Das, and member of religious committee Mithilesh Nandini Sharan.“It was decided in the…

NTPC and CIPET officials at the signing of the agreement in Bhagalpur Bhagalpur: NTPC Kahalgaon has tied up with the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET) to provide job-oriented vocational and skill development training to unemployed youths and project-affected families in Bhagalpur district.An MoA was signed by NTPC and CIPET officials at Bhagalpur on Saturday evening. Under the initiative, 80 youths from villages in Kahalgaon sub-division will receive placement-linked training in plastic processing, plastic recycling and machine operations. The beneficiaries will be selected from areas near the NTPC project.Ravindra Sharma, project head, NTPC Kahalgaon, said the initiative aims…

Basant Kumar Meghwal after winning the silver at World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon Jaipur: Hailing from a remote hamlet in Anupgarh tehsil of Sriganganagar, 19-year-old Basant Kumar Meghwal scripted history Saturday by becoming the first Indian athlete to win a high jump medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene in the US state of Oregon.The podium finishers all maxed out at a height of 2.21 meters, meaning final placements were decided entirely by countback rules based on missed attempts. Algerian Younes Ayachi clinched gold by sailing over the bar cleanly on his first attempt.Basant secured a…

Nagpur: A batch of tribal students from Gadchiroli’s govt ashram schools are back after an educational tour of Delhi, where they met President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Before they left, CM and Gadchiroli guardian minister Devendra Fadnavis had personally seen them off at the airport.The tribal development department funded the Delhi tour for 96 tribal students from govt ashram schools in Gadchiroli, Aheri and Bhamragad under district’s annual tribal sub-plan. Separately, the social justice and special assistance department has sent 360 students from Gadchiroli’s govt residential schools on similar tours over past 3 years, to Hyderabad and Bengaluru in…

22 4G towers in Sonbhadra’s Jugail to end `Dark Zone’ Varanasi: Once notorious as a den of Naxalites because of its difficult terrain and a dark zone due to poor cellular network connectivity, the Jugail area of Sonbhadra district is all set to see a new dawn, with three 4G towers set to be installed in the region.The BSNL provision allows a maximum of two towers in any village, but in view of the typical geographical conditions, the local administration pursued the installation of a minimum of three towers in each of the seven villages of the Jugail region. BSNL…

The city’s average PM2.5 concentration remained above India’s prescribed standard through Jan-June Kolkata: Kolkata bucked West Bengal’s broader trend of improving air quality in the first half of 2026, recording a rise in fine particulate pollution even as Howrah, Asansol, Durgapur and Barrackpore registered significant declines, finds an analysis by an independent research organisation, Centre for Research on Energy & Clean Air (CREA).The city’s average PM2.5 concentration remained above India’s prescribed standard through Jan-June (H1 period). More significantly, the concentration increased from 43.6 µg/m³ during the same period of 2025. The rise interrupts Kolkata’s longer-term improvement. Its H1 PM2.5 average…