The toll in the boat capsize in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district rose to seven with the recovery of five more bodies on Saturday, an official said. Personnel of the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force and Fire Services, who launched a search operation immediately after the boat capsized on Friday, recovered five more bodies from the Mahanadi … Read more
Three persons, including a 46-year-old woman and her 28-year-old daughter hailing from Wayanad district, drowned in a river at Chathamangalam near Kunnamangalam in Kozhikode on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Mini, her daughter Athira, and their relative’s 13-year-old son Adwaith Shaiju hailing from Kunnamangalam. The incident took place near Pulikkamannukadavu around 5.45 p.m. when … Read more
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Ministers N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Komatireddy Venkata Reddy and Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy at the All India Builders Convention. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy sought the builders’ community to support his vision for developing the proposed Musi River Front on the lines of the Thames River Front in London and he … Read more
A view of the elevated corridor on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) near Ambur in Tirupattur district. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT For more than a month, work on the elevated corridor along the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) near Ambur in Tirupattur has been temporarily stopped by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which executes the project … Read more
RAVULAPALEM Ulava Suresh, 28, was arrested on August 11 (Friday) for allegedly killing his live-in partner and her one-year-old daughter by throwing them into River Gowthami from a bridge in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district in the early hours of August 6. Dr. B.A. Ambedkar Konaseema SP S. Sridhar said that Mr. Suresh had been … Read more
A Buddha statue will come up near the Lower Manair Dam (LMD) as part of the prestigious Manair River Front Development Project in Karimnagar, said Backward Classes Welfare Minister G. Kamalakar. He was speaking at the district-level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee meeting held here on July 11. The status of cases registered under the Scheduled … Read more
Residents of villages in Sharavathi river backwaters depend on ferries to commute to nearby places in Sagar taluk of Shivamogga district in Karnataka. | Photo Credit: Sathish GT Usually, we hear of people being stranded by heavy rains and flooding. But residents of Karuru and Barangi hoblis in Sagar taluk of Karnataka are stranded because … Read more
Omveer Kumar, 41, picks up plastic bottles, pouches and food packets as he walks on the wet sand on the banks of the Ganga. As he nears a heap of garbage, Mr. Kumar sees an overturned turtle, its neck wounded. He rushes it to a nearby rescue centre for treatment. Mr. Kumar, a resident of … Read more
Watch | How this ‘dead’ river in Kerala was transformed A view of revived Kuttamperoor river in Alappuzha. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Kuttamperoor river, a tributary of the Pampa and Achencoil rivers, died a slow death around 2005 due to years of waste dumping, encroachments and other activities. Today, it is transformed. The 100-metre … Read more
The farmers’ body accused the Arunachal Pradesh Government of inking a deal with the National Hydropower Power Corporation for the mega-dam without taking the local people into confidence. Image for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Two Arunachal Pradesh-based organisations, including a farmers’ collective, have asked the State Government to scrap … Read more