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CHANDIGARH: The municipal corporation has served notices on around 200 residences of Sarangpur village and Khuda Lahora for draining out their wastewater from kitchen and bathroom to storm line instead of sewage line, which further took it to Patiala ki Rao choe, polluting the natural rivulet. Sarangpur has been adopted by city MP Kirron Kher, […]
KOLKATA: A sizeable portion of construction waste and debris generated in added areas like Garden Reach, Metiabruz, Behala, Jadavpur or areas located off EM Bypass are being used to fill up ponds by land sharks. This issue featured prominently in a meeting between the KMC board of administrators and senior Lalbazar cops.The meeting was convened
BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has set a deadline of September 30 for the Urban Development Authorities (UDA) to prepare Comprehensive Development Plans (CDP).In a meeting held on Thursday, the Urban Development Minister B A Basavaraja gave the directions to the commissioner of urban development authorities to submit the CDP within the stipulated time, a statement
CHANDIGARH: With Rs 24 crore property tax outstanding against the UT administration, the tax department of the municipal corporation (MC) is ready to send separate tax notices to all six divisions of the engineering department of the UT instead of just one, which was the practice earlier.Though all these divisions are of the engineering department
Kolkata-based IFGL Refractories Limited will invest Rs 70 crore by FY23 in three manufacturing plants to enhance capacity and productivity, an official said. The company said the ongoing capex will boost its performance in both profitability and revenue.”We have acquired 10 acre of land in Visakhapatnam for manufacturing of new products including monolithics and precast
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We still like the top four-five private sector banks. They are very well positioned and their capital adequacy is exceptionally good. They have very strong management teams and most of them are embracing technology. There is a lot of opportunity in the top private sector banks, said Sampath Reddy, CIO, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance. Edited
India is set to exceed its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and boosting the share of non-fossil fuels in electricity generation but any further commitment to reducing its carbon footprint will depend on climate finance from rich countries, a senior official said.As part of its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement India, the
Entertainment-focused broadcaster Viacom18 has bagged TV and digital rights of Italian Professional Football League for the Indian sub-continent region for the next three seasons. The latest edition of Italian Serie A, which will kick off on August 21, will be available live across Voot, Viacom18’s TV channels and Jio, a statement said.Italian Professional Football League,
NEW DELHI/GENEVA: Extreme sea level events that previously occurred once in 100 years could happen every year by the end of this century, the latest IPCC report on climate change said on Monday with scientists warning that sea level rise, floods, heavy rainfall and glacier melting are some of the irreversible effects. The Intergovernmental Panel
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COPENHAGEN: About 96,000 farmed salmon are believed to have died when a leak in a nearby tank sent 15,000 liters (4,000 gallons) of chlorine into a fjord in Arctic Norway. Roger Pedersen, a spokesman for the salmon farming company Grieg Seafood, said the leak happened at one of its fish slaughterhouses in the town of
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NEW DELHI: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with nations galvanising most of their resources towards it, the wildfires have also brought destruction to many nations across continents, particularly the US. Wildfires on average have burned 8.8 million acres in the US from 2017 to 2020, according to data published by National Interagency Coordination Center, the agency
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PLANPINCIEUX, ITALY: Scientists on Italy’s side of the Mont Blanc massif are constantly monitoring a melting glacier, where the risk of collapse due to rising temperatures threatens the valley below. The Planpincieux glacier, at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,860 feet), hangs over the hamlet of Planpincieux, underneath the south face of the Grandes
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