Twenty-two people — 18 passengers, two drivers and two conductors, are feared killed as the two State transport buses in which they were travelling were washed away when a bridge linking Mahad and Poladpur on the Mumbai-Goa highway in Raigad district in Konkan collapsed in heavy rain in the early hours of Wednesday. The State transport department has appealed to […]
» Read moreAnother tragic incident, three workers died and four others were injured when an under construction arch collapsed at the CBCID Colony, in Kukatpally, near the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). The arch collapsed at about 4 pm, leading to the instant death of Dharmarao (45), Nagabhushanam (45) and Janardhan (55). Those who were injured have been taken to Landmark hospital […]
» Read moreMaking a strong pitch for the implementation of the promises made to Andhra Pradesh, including grant of Special Category Status, the Telugu Desam Party members disrupted the proceedings in Parliament on Monday even as the Central government appears to have taken note of the seriousness of the situation. Union Ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu and Y. Satyanarayana (Sujana) Chowdary, who held […]
» Read moreThe Mamata Banerjee government on Tuesday passed a proposal to change the name of West Bengal to Bengal. The proposal was approved at a Cabinet meeting held at the State Secretariat. “We have proposed that in Bengali the name of the State will be Bangla or Banga. In English, the name will be Bengal,” Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said. The […]
» Read moreThe designated Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Tuesday sentenced 26/11 handler and convict in the Aurangabad arms haul case Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal to life imprisonment. Six others were also awarded life imprisonment by special judge S.L. Anekar. Of the 12 convicts, the court sentenced two to 14 years and three others to eight years […]
» Read moreThe Telangana government now faces the dilemma of allowing the students accused in the Eamcet -II leakage to take the Eamcet-III to be held on September 11 with the JNTU Hyderabad Registrar, N. Yadaiah as the Convenor and the JNTUH Vice Chancellor, A. Venugopal Reddy as the Chairman. The dilemma arises from the fact that the CID is yet to […]
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