MEPPADI (WAYANAD): Kerala’s worst natural disaster since the 2018 floods struck the state’s hilly Wayanad region early Tuesday when two monster landslides in as many hours buried a small town and several plantation villages, killing 126 people, injuring 196, and leaving around 100 people marooned or missing in swathes of slush, mud and misery triggered…
The first edition of the Constitution of India – considered a work of architecture rather than art – was sold for Rs 48 lakh, its highest price so far, at an auction recently. The rare book, one of the only 1,000 copies made by Survey of India Offices in Dehradun and published by Centre in…
NEW DELHI: In a strong message to investors and opponents, PM Modi Tuesday said his govt was not lacking in political will to take decisions based on a “nation first” approach and urged “wealth creators to be the primary driving force” of development, in what was seen as a retort to Congress’s repeated allegations of…
NEW DELHI: Landslides that hit the ecologically fragile region of Wayanad in Kerala on Tuesday is a stark reminder of the failure of successive govts in notifying the Western Ghats as an eco-sensitive area (ESA) – a prerequisite to preserving the terrain by banning environmentally hazardous human activities.Despite five draft notifications by the Centre since…
POTOBERA/RANCHI: Two people were killed and eight injured early Tuesday after the Howrah-Mumbai Mail derailed 60km from Jamshedpur in Seraikela-Kharsawan district of Jharkhand, after it hit a derailed wagon of a goods train running on the adjacent track.Seventeen coaches of the Mumbai-bound train detached – including a pantry car and a power car – in…
NEW DELHI: In a big development for India’s atomic energy programme, the country’s most advanced and complex nuclear reactor, 500 MWe sodium-cooled prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR), located at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, has finally got approval from atomic regulator Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) to start operationalising the reactor by loading nuclear fuel and…
When Ajit Samal (34) and P Bikash Rao (27) left their homes for Tatanagar on Monday, little did their families know that would be the last time they would see them alive. Early on Tuesday the two friends lost their lives when the 12810 Howrah-CSTM Mumbai derailed in Seraikela-Kharsawan district of Jharkhand.Residents of Malgodown and…
NEW DELHI: In less than two months, three rail accidents have claimed 21 lives and left dozens injured. These fatal accidents and some recent derailments of both passenger and goods trains have brought the focus back on safety issues.Officials said the exact cause of Howrah-Mumbai Mail train derailment, which claimed two lives would be known…
NEW DELHI: Another Indian working as a helper with Russian army in Ukraine is reported to have been killed in the ongoing war. Ravi Moun, 22, of Haryana was sent to frontline by Russian army to fight Ukrainians, as per his family.While ministry of external affairs is yet to confirm the death, Indian embassy is…
MUMBAI: As reported by TOI on July 25, Mahayuti government has expanded Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana, which was meant to provide three free gas cylinders per year to 52.2 lakh households, to include beneficiaries of Ladki Bahin Yojana for underprivileged women. This is expected to triple the number of beneficiaries and raise the cost of the…
