'Jail-made' hawai chappal will soon be available in your next-door shop or market in Kerala as a central prison here has started manufacturingthe rubber slippers now. After dishing out a variety of products, including delicious but cost-effective food items, and successfully venturing into organic farming and beauty parlour business to running a petrol pump, the inmates of the Poojappura Central Prison here are now making footwear.
The Diwali festival turned gloomy for the kin of at least six youths who drowned in two incidents in Telangana, police said on Sunday.
India's active COVID-19 cases remained below five lakh for the fourth consecutive day at 4,79,216 as the country recorded as many as 41,100 fresh coronavirus cases and 447 deaths on Sunday, taking the country's COVID-19 caseload to 88,14,579, according to Health Ministry data.
With an overhang of disputes choking investments in the oil and gas sector, the government is pushing for contractual wrangles being sent to an expert committee for time-bound resolution but the move has found few takers due to inherent conflict of interest in such a process, sources said. The government had in December last year constituted a 'Committee of External Eminent Persons/Experts' comprising former oil secretary G C Chaturvedi, former Oil India Ltd head Bikash C Bora and Hindalco Industries Ltd Managing Director Satish Pai, for dispute resolution without having to resort to the tardy judicial process. But no major dispute has been referred to the panel so far, two sources with direct knowledge of the development said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to tribal leader Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary on Sunday and said his contribution to the freedom movement and social harmony will always inspire the countrymen.
The Delhi Fire Service received a total of 205 calls on Diwali night. One person was charred to death while another received injuries in a major fire. During the peak hours from 6 p.m. to 11.58 p.m. on Saturday a total of 129 calls were received.
The Air quality level was much better in Kolkata on the evening of Kali puja and Diwali on Saturday, compared to that on the festival day last year, as bursting of firecrackers was much less following a high court order, an official of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) said.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
