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Connecting Link landslide prompts safety audit of Samruddhi ghat stretch

India, July 12 -- Days after a landslide at the mouth of a tunnel on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway's Connecting Link, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is preparing to take preve... Read More


Project Safe Ride: A year on, QR verification covers only one in five three-wheelers

LUCKNOW, July 12 -- Nearly a year after Project Safe Ride was launched to improve commuter safety through QR code-based police verification, only 27,741 of Lucknow's 1.36 lakh registered auto-rickshaw... Read More


Maharashtra to set up SIT to probe suspected fraud in MJPJAY claims

India, July 12 -- The Maharashtra government will constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe suspected fraud involving thousands of treatment claims and surgeries under the Mahatma Jyotira... Read More


NGT bars construction violating Ganga norms along Gomti, issues notice to LDA

LUCKNOW, July 12 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has barred any construction along the Gomti river in Lucknow that violates the River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Authorities O... Read More


From protest to big screen: Citizens' movement for saving Mumbai's last mangroves comes alive in documentary

India, July 12 -- On a Saturday evening in Thane, nearly 50 young people, most of them in their 20s, gathered after work to watch a documentary. For the next 75 minutes, they barely moved. As The Last... Read More


Omar claims NC MLAs being offered up to rRs.r30 crore to switch sides

Srinagar, July 12 -- Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to break the National Conference (NC) by offering its MLAs Rs.20-... Read More


Absent for over 2 years, J&K cop dismissed

Jammu, July 12 -- A constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police has been dismissed from service in Kathua district for allegedly remaining absent from duty for more than two-and-a-half years without obtaini... Read More


Priyanka Chopra at Wimbledon shows how to do courtside fashion right in chic linen look; takes parents-in-law on a date

India, July 12 -- Priyanka Chopra attended the final match between Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova as the ninth seed beat the fellow Czech player 6-2, 5-7, and 6-3. Linda Noskova thus became Wimble... Read More


State govt releases rRs.r17,958 crore for Jal Jeevan Mission

India, July 12 -- The state government has sanctioned Rs.17,958 crore to complete pending work under the Jal Jeevan Mission, which aims to provide tap water to all rural households in Maharashtra. Th... Read More


Murder case filed week after man found dead in waterlogged pit

India, July 12 -- A week after the body of a 28-year-old man was found in a waterlogged pit near a water tank in Panvel, police have registered a murder case after the postmortem revealed that he had ... Read More