NEW DELHI: The road transport and highways ministry has admitted design failures, weak quality assurance and over-reliance on builders as some of the factors for certain newly built highway stretches with concrete pavement collapsing in rain-prone and low-lying areas, according to the latest report of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.Raising concerns over the “indiscriminate…
Gurgaon: MCG officials appear to be in “denial” of the sanitation crisis facing the city and “use garbage-removal exercise as an image-building exercise,” a report, submitted recently by 19 local commissioners appointed by Punjab and Haryana high court, has said.The denial comes amid a plethora of issues — such as “vacant plots being used for…
The body of a 37-year-old labourer from Assam, who had been missing for more than two weeks, was recovered from the dense forests of Manipur’s Churachandpur district Tuesday. The cause of death is not yet known.Dugdha Hazarika, from Assam’s Sonitpur district, was an employee of Bharat Infra Pvt Ltd, which is engaged in construction of…
PATNA: Actor Kay Kay Menon has denied any role in Congress’s vote theft campaign after a video surfaced suggesting he had endorsed the drive. The actor said the clip was taken from his promotion for a web series, edited and used without his permission. Menon’s statement came hours after Bihar’s Minta Devi, the “124 Not…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has warned Air India against misusing exemptions given for pilot flight duty rules under special circumstances. After Pakistan had closed its airspace to Indian carriers on April 24, 2025, the regulator had granted an exemption from flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms so that Air India…
NEW DELHI: The road transport ministry has urged all driving licence (DL) holders and registered vehicle owners to add or update their mobile numbers for both DL and registered vehicles through the Aadhaar authentication process. This will be a pre-requisite for availing any transport and driving licence-related services, sources said.The ministry has said people can…
MUMBAI: Actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra, her businessman husband Raj Kundra, and an unknown person were booked by Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for allegedly cheating a Mumbai-based businessman of Rs 60.4 crore in connection with a loan-cum-investment deal involving their now-defunct company, Best Deal TV Pvt Ltd.The offence was registered at Juhu police station against Shilpa…
NOIDA: A special Pocso court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a former swimming pool lifeguard at a wellknown school chain’s Greater Noida campus to life imprisonment “till the last day of his natural life” for sexually assaulting a three-year-old student in 2018.The court, which pronounced a double life term under IPC and the protection of…
BENGALURU: In what’s unprecedented, the L1 quotation (lowest bid) by the consortium that won the 12 Earth Observation satellites project being implemented as a PPP by IN-SPACe, is Rs 0 (zero rupees). The consortium comprising Pixxel, PierSight, SatSure and Dhruva, which will bear the financial cost of the project, will invest more than Rs 1,2000…
MUMBAI: India’s public hospitals and dispensaries may soon have a safer, more affordable option for preventing rabies after a suspected rabid dog bite: one already in use in private clinics since 2017 and by BMC since 2019. A post-marketing clinical trial involving more than 4,000 participants, conducted and funded by a pharmaceutical company and recently…
