Story Updated On January 15: East Coast Railway spokesperson said that no major trees were cut to make way for the helipad. Only leaves/branches of few trees on Railway land had to be pruned to give full proper space for helicopter movements. Railway will estimate total loss of plants and replant more than two times of saplings …
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US president Donald Trump on Friday pledged to reform the H-1B visa process, a skilled temporary guest worker programme widely used by Indian professionals, saying he wants to “encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the US” and provide “a potential path to citizenship.” The president’s unexpected outreach towards foreign guest workers came amid a furious …
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Nine out of 10 Indians don’t worry about the safety of their children on road as neither they buy helmets for the kids if they travel by two-wheelers, nor they secure them with seat belts if the family travels by four-wheelers. This is an appalling reality that has come to fore due to a study which the union minister for …
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In a gruesome crime, two minor girls from Ranchi, aged 13 and 16, were allegedly raped by their boyfriends who had invited them for the picnic. The missing complaint was lodged on January 2 in Jagannathpur police station by family members of the 13-year-old girl and the family alleged that the 16-year-old friend of her had kidnapped her for trafficking. …
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Emigration clearances granted to Indians headed to the Gulf for employment have dropped by 21%, standing at 2.95 lakh during the 11-month period ended November 30, 2018, as compared to 2017. The five-year outflow of Indian workers to Gulf peaked in 2014 at 7.76 lakh. Compared to that figure, the decline in 2018 is as high as 62%. These statistics …
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A gruesome murder took place on Thursday in the national capital when a 23-year-old was murdered using a digging fork, PTI reported. The incident took place in Rana park area at around 8 pm and the deceased has been identified as Gautam Kumar. When a security guard named Indrajeet Mishra visited her sister’s house, her husband’s brother alias Gautam was …
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Archaeologists from the Deccan College Deemed University in Pune have discovered two skeletons, a young male and a female, buried at the same time in the same grave with the man’s face turned toward the woman. It is the first anthropologically confirmed joint burial of a couple in a Harappan cemetery. The ‘couple’s grave’ was found in the Harappan settlements …
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Environmentalists and activists who have been for long protesting against the proposed elevated corridor passing through the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka have claimed victory after the Central Government said no to the project. Mahesh Sharma, MoS Environment Forests and Climate Change said the corridor which comprises of elevated structures at four regular intervals, as suggested by the Union Ministry …
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A man in Nagpur approached the police station with a strange complaint and the cops had not received a complaint like that before. The man went to the police station to file a report for his ‘stolen’ heart. He wanted to file a complaint stating that a girl has ‘stolen’ his heart and the cops should get it back. The …
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Indian origin economist Gita Gopinath has become the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and she is the first woman to hold the prestigious post. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) Airports To Use Waste Plastic To Lay Internal Roads Leading To Runways Reuters/Representational Image The next time you visit the city airport, chances are …
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