The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday (June 11, 2025) began simultaneous searches at 12 locations across Hyderabad linked to Nune Sridhar, an executive engineer. A case of disproportionate assets has been booked against the former official in connection with the alleged irregularities in the execution of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project. Efforts are underway to … Read more
The High Court of Karnataka has found fault in the actions of the State government as well as the Lokayukta in initiating disciplinary proceedings against an engineer for not acting against an illegal building situated in Hombegowda ward, while pointing out that the engineer could not take further action as a tribunal had ordered maintenance … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a corruption case against a Chief Engineer of the Konkan Railway Corporation Limited and a private company, along with its directors, on bribery charge. The accused persons have been identified as Sumeet Khajuria, a 2005-batch Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE) officer posted as a Chief Engineer … Read more
A person, who went missing on December 29, was found dead in the Hemavathi backwaters near Shettihalli in Hassan taluk on Wednesday. The police gave the name of the deceased as G.J. Pramod, 35, who was working as an engineer for an automobile company. Pramod, resident of Indira Nagar in Hassan, was married to Nandini … Read more
Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, walked out of Tihar Jail, in New Delhi, on September 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI A Delhi court extended the interim bail of Baramulla Member of Parliament, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, alias Engineer Rashid, until October 28 on Tuesday. He was being held in Tihar jail in connection with … Read more
The Mumbai engineer who designed the Ghatkopar hoarding, which collapsed and killed 17 people on May 13, argued in court that the incident was an “act of nature” and he cannot be held responsible for it. The engineer, Manoj Ramakrishna Sangu, was granted bail by a Mumbai sessions court on Thursday. In his bail plea, … Read more
Engineer Rashid. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A Delhi court on June 21 asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to respond by July 1 to an application filed by Engineer Rashid, arrested in a 2017 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case, seeking interim bail to take oath as an MP. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known … Read more
Sheikh Abdul Rashid, locally known as Engineer Rashid | Photo Credit: AFP A Delhi court will hear arguments on an application filed by Engineer Rashid seeking interim bail to take oath as an MP on June 18. He is being held in a 2016 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known … Read more
Engineer Abdul Rashid. File. | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Incarcerated Abdul Rashid Sheikh, head of the Awami-e-Ittihad Party (AIP), on April 29 filed nomination papers through his representative from the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat. “Upon completion of all necessary legal and administrative formalities, the nomination was filed before Returning Officer Minga Sherpa at Baramulla,” AIP spokesperson Firdous … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and IIT Mandi researchers have metabolically engineered the plant cells of Nothapodytes nimmoniana to increase the production of Camptothecin, which is used to treat cancer. The researchers from the Plant Cell Technology Lab of IIT Madras have developed a genome-scale metabolic model for N nimmoniana plant cells … Read more