(Tribune) Shimla and upper areas of the district received another spell of snow, disrupting traffic in upper Shimla. Kufri received 23 cm of snow followed by Khadrala and Mashobra 5 cm each and Shimla 3 cm. Seven persons in two vehicles, including two women and an infant, who were stuck between Deha and Kheerki, while trying to reach Chopal last night, were rescued. A rescue team from Chopal and the PWD staff in JCB were sent from Chambi point and all stranded persons had been rescued, Deputy Commissioner, Shimla, Amit Kashyap said. The supply of essential commodities to areas beyond…
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(ET) The first unit of the 111 MW Sawra Kuddu Hydro Electric Project will start generating power by this April. The process of filling the head race tunnel of the project will start soon.Water will be made available at the main inlet valve of the project power house by March. Execution of the project started in June 2007 but ran into trouble over the excavation of the 11.365 km head race tunnel because of adverse geological rock conditions. The project comprises a diversion barrage on Pabbar river near Hatkoti and underground powerhouse on th per cente left bank of the Pabbar river…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी आज दिल्ली में अंतरराष्ट्रीय न्यायिक सम्मेलन (आईजेसी) का उद्घाटन करेंगे। इसके अलावा पीएम मोदी आज वीडियो कांफ्रेंसिंग के जरिए पहली बार खेलो इंडिया यूनिवर्सिटी गेम्स के उद्घाटन समारोह को भी संबोधित करेंगे। आईजेसी का आयोजन सुप्रीम कोर्ट कॉम्प्लेक्स में किया जा रहा है। आईजेसी के उद्घाटन के बाद शाम को, पीएम मोदी वीडियो कॉन्फ्रेंसिंग के माध्यम से ओडिशा के भुवनेश्वर में 22 फरवरी से 1 मार्च तक आयोजित होने वाले खेलो इंडिया यूनिवर्सिटी गेम्स के उद्घाटन समारोह को भी संबोधित करेंगे। प्रधानमंत्री शाम सात बजे खेलो इंडिया उद्घाटन समारोह को संबोधित करने वाले हैं। ओडिशा सरकार के…
(PTI) State-owned CIL’s coal supply to the power sector registered a decline of 6.8 percent to 377.86 million tonnes (MT) in the the April-January period of the ongoing fiscal. The commodity dispatch by Coal India (CIL) to the power sector in the year-ago period was 405.61 MT, according to official data. However, the coal despatch by CIL to the power sector in January registered an increase of 2.9 percent to 43.20 MT, over 42 MT in the corresponding month of the previous fiscal, it said. The supply of dry-fuel by Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), a state-owned coal miner, in the April-January…
(FE) In nothing short of a jackpot for the Uttar Pradesh government, geologists have discovered massive gold deposits in Sonbhadra district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The discovery comes after two decades of search by the Geological Survey of India and the Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Geology and Mining. As per estimates, there are two goldmines with around 3,500 tonnes of gold ore in the Naxal-affected Sonbhadra district. This is around five times the current gold reserves of the country which stands at around 626 tonne. According to District Mining Officer KK Rai, the government is thinking of putting these deposits…
(LiveMint) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday laid the foundation stone of the Army headquarters’ new building in Delhi Cantonment and asserted that the world now recognises India among powerful nations. Christened ‘Thal Sena Bhawan’, the multi-storeyed complex is designed “like a rising sun” and it will be spread over nearly 39 acres, officials said. “We have laid the first stone of the new Sena Bhawan. It will represent the unsung heroes of the armed forces who have sacrificed their lives for the country,” Singh told a gathering at the ceremony.The defence minister said the world now recognises that India is…
(LiveMint) The Railway Ministry has agreed to launch a Tejas Express train equipped with modern onboard facilities between Delhi and Dehradun via Haridwar. An agreement in principle to start a Tejas Express train between Delhi-Haridwar-Dehradun has been given on a request by the Uttarakhand chief minister, an official release here on Friday quoted Railway Minister Piyush Goyal as saying. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met Goyal in Delhi over the matter.Goyal said work on the project will begin as soon as a pathway is available.There will be no budgetary shortage for railway projects in Uttarakhand, he said.Arrangements for the safety…
(LiveMint) India’s electricity demand grew 7.5% in the first 18 days of February with early onset of summer in the South and West, offering some relief to the stressed thermal power sector which can now operate at higher capacities. Currently, thermal power projects are operating at 58% capacity, a senior government official said. Power demand had grown 3.7% in January, turning around after five months of decline.Demand for electricity stood at 1,05,289 megawatt (mw) in January against 1,01,570 mw in December 2019. It was also 3.5% higher than the 1,01,713 mw in January 2019, data available with the Central Electricity Authority…
(DH) Union Petroleum and Steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged the Centre for setting up a hostel for girl students belonging to minority communities under a central scheme. In a letter to Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi,Pradhan highlighted the need for establishing the hostel for minority girl students studying in senior school or colleges in Bhubaneswar. He also requested Naqvi to issue instructions for making provisions to cover major cities, besides the state capital, under the PMJVK scheme so that priority sectors are made available in the metropolitan cities as well. Presently the Ministry of Minority Affairs (MoMA) sanctions…
(LiveMint) Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who met Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, said they will work together for the development of the national capital. Kejriwal had hinted at working together with the central government for the development of Delhi, while taking oath as chief minister at Ramlila Grounds in the national capital on Sunday. The meeting between Kejriwal and Shah comes in the wake of a bitterly fought campaign for the Delhi assembly elections between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Kejriwal and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules at the Centre and of which Shah was the…