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Women, during the launch of the free bus travel ‘Shakti’ scheme for Women at Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru on June 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), which captures how people in India travel to the workplace, shows a clear gender divide in mobility and the modes used…
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Traffic queues stretching over 2 km brought the 3.5-km stretch to a crawl. | Photo Credit: file photo A week after the Barapullah Phase-III flyover was thrown open with a promise of cutting the journey from Mayur Vihar to AIIMS in Delhi to just 15 minutes, commuters are spending more than an hour inching through…
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If ₹100 collected in MDR causes more than ₹100 of economic value to disappear elsewhere, the payment system ends up better funded and the country poorer Source link
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday set aside the detention order issued by the Thiruvananthapuram Collector against councillor R. Sugathan under the Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act (KAAPA Act), 2007. A Division Bench of Justices Anil K. Narendran and S. Murali Krishna set aside the detention order and directed the Superintendent of Central Prison and…
For every Form 6 application for inclusion in Delhi’s electoral roll disposed of during the ongoing claims and objections phase of the special intensive revision (SIR), nearly six Form 7 applications seeking objections to the inclusion of names or their deletion from the draft roll have been cleared, data accessed by The Hindu showed. According…
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A Delhi court has granted bail to 17 students and journalists who were taken into police custody on Monday and sought a report from Delhi Police on allegations of “custodial torture” levelled by two protesters. Judicial Magistrate Animesh Kumar of the Patiala House Courts issued four separate bail orders on Monday night. The arrested persons…
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It has been nearly nine months since the U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that supplies Cuba with oil, and the U.S. Coast Guard began intercepting tankers and ships bound for the island. Power cuts in Cuba have since become very common, often lasting beyond 12 hours a…
The Tiruttani police have arrested four persons, including a 17-year-old boy, in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old petty shop owner in Tiruttani. D. Yuvaraj was hacked to death by a masked gang near Periyar Nagar on Sunday in the presence of his wife and daughter. The arrested were identified as Sushil, 24, Bhuvanesh,…
Sources in the Highways Department said that steps would be taken to remove the encroachments. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Residents of the western suburbs, including Pattabiram, Thandurai, and Thiruninravur, have urged the Highways Department to regulate the spaces, beneath flyovers and service lanes, which are mostly encroached upon by vendors. Poor maintenance Motorists…
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A homestay in Kodagu near Talacauvery.According to the Tourism Department, there are around 4,000 registered homestays in Karnataka. Environment Minister Ramalinga Reddy has directed forest officials to take immediate action against all illegally established resorts and homestays in the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) and buffer zone of various tiger reserves and protected areas. Mr. Reddy,…
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