Work at illegal resort construction site around Avalanche Dam halted

Work at illegal resort construction site around Avalanche Dam halted

An illegal resort being built around Avalanche Dam in Udhagamandalam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Tamil Nadu Forest department has stopped work on several illegal resort buildings that were being constructed on the periphery of Avalanche Lake in the Nilgiris. The structures, which were being built around the lake, were an eyesore that not … Read more

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy visits pharma blast site, announces ₹1 crore ex-gratia for victims’ families

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy visits pharma blast site, announces ₹1 crore ex-gratia for victims’ families

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy interacting with the families of the victims of a reactor blast that took place at Sigachi Industries in Sangareddy district on Tuesday (July 01). | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy visited the Sigachi Industries Pvt. Ltd unit in Pashamylaram Industrial area in Sangareddy district on … Read more

Minister denies violation of norms in allotment of KIADB CA sites

Minister denies violation of norms in allotment of KIADB CA sites

A file photo of KIADB land in Mysuru | Photo Credit: SRIRAM MA Minister for Industries and Infrastructure Development M. B. Patil informed the Legislative Council that there was no violation in the allotment of civic amenity sites by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB). He was responding to an allegation by member C. … Read more

Local staff restrict photography at the UNESCO site of Somanathapur

Local staff restrict photography at the UNESCO site of Somanathapur

Many visitors have complained of restrictions on photography by the local staff of Keshava temple at Somanathapur, though there is no such a rule. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram Scores of tourists visiting the Keshava Temple at Somanathpur, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are being routinely prevented from photographing the iconic monument in contravention of … Read more

Sunken museum at Humayun’s Tomb site in Delhi to be inaugurated on July 29

Sunken museum at Humayun’s Tomb site in Delhi to be inaugurated on July 29

The old finial of the 16th century Humayun’s Tomb which was knocked off in a 2014 storm on display at the country’s first sunken museum in south Delhi’s Humayun’s Tomb complex, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. The first-of-its-kind museum is slated to be inaugurated on July 29. | Photo Credit: PTI The country’s first sunken museum … Read more

Anxiety mounts for families of workers trapped at Uttarkashi Tunnel collapse site, drilling work to resume today

Anxiety mounts for families of workers trapped at Uttarkashi Tunnel collapse site, drilling work to resume today

Rescue workers at Uttarkashi Tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand on November 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP As relatives of 40 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel wait for them to come out, a relative of a worker trapped inside the tunnel said that despite assurances nothing seemed to be happening. Deepak Kumar (23), … Read more

Uttarkashi tunnel collapse | All trapped workers safe, rescue efforts underway; CM Dhami visits site

Uttarkashi tunnel collapse | All trapped workers safe, rescue efforts underway; CM Dhami visits site

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami reviews the ongoing rescue and relief operations after a portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway collapsed, in Uttarkashi district, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI All 40 workers trapped after an under-construction tunnel collapsed in Uttarkashi are safe … Read more

Three workers killed at under-construction site in Hyderabad’s Kukatpally Housing Board Colony

Three workers killed at under-construction site in Hyderabad’s Kukatpally Housing Board Colony

In a horrific incident on Thursday morning (September 7), three workers lost their lives while a few others sustained injuries when the scaffolding of an under-construction building gave way. The incident occurred as the laborers were working on the scaffolding of construction site. Blocks of bricks and pieces of wood lay scattered on the road … Read more