The workers' union has accepted the '10-step' pay hike to be granted to them by way of an interim measure by the civic transport undertaking's management.
Officials of the Transport Department, bus drivers and conductors were contacted on Friday night to help the people who were stranded in Noida, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar and Aligarh, among other places, he said.
Traffic police created two 'green corridors' for speedy transportation of two livers for transplantation, one of them being a distance of 210 Km.
'We want the government to provide job security for all these workers,' says E S N Reddy, district general secretary of CITU.
A doctor who treated Ebola patients in Guinea and returned to the United States last week has tested positive for the Ebola virus, becoming New York city's first diagnosed case.
'These are challenging times and we get energised by that.' 'I don't feel that 'I am tired now and I should relax', because even if someone calls us at 12 o'clock I have to answer his call.'
The triple lockdown in force from Monday would last for a week.
The Maharashtra government announced categorisation of various areas into red and non-red zones
The heavily overcrowded matador van was on its way from Ghordi to Ramnagar with mostly college students and government employees, when it fell into a deep gorge near Dalsar area of the Ramnagar Tehsil.
As Delhi hospitals faced a severe oxygen crisis for the third consecutive day, the DDMA roped in three senior bureaucrats on Thursday to ensure a smooth movement of tankers and facilitate oxygen supply to the needy establishments, and directed the police to provide the security logistics from the manufacturers' sites to various health facilities in the city.
The 43-year-old mogul was walking into the Colosseum Hotel and Fitness Club in Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam for his routine gym session during the early hours of Thursday morning when two white men and an unknown number of accomplices in two cars waylaid him and quickly drove away.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led regime is performing a veritable balancing act. The lack of coordinated strategies, the weakening authority of the leadership, growing disgruntlement among its constituents, the inability to set a narrative, and poor damage control mechanisms have seen it lurch from one crisis to another, reports Dhaval Kulkarni
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Hebbalkar termed the incident as a "political conspiracy" to malign her name.
International cab-booking service Uber was banned on Monday in the national capital, a day after one of its drivers was arrested for allegedly raping a 27-year-old woman executive amid growing outrage over the incident which renewed focus on safety measures for women.
The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the Centre and states to ensure implementation of the decisions taken in a meeting to curb air pollution, observing that it cannot get into the 'nitty gritty' and the bureaucracy has developed a 'sort of inertia' of not taking decisions which are left to the courts.
The violent protests forced the Nagaland CM to call off the elections.
A man, from whom a fake character certificate was originally procured, using which the Uber rape case accused got an All India Tourist Permit, has been identified by the police and summoned for questioning.
Sheela Bhatt blames the Delhi gang-rape and its aftermath on the dreadful transport mafia, the offspring of the nexus between politicians, crooked bureaucrats and shady operators.
India on Wednesday asked its acting high commissioner in Islamabad to seek a meeting with the Pakistan foreign office in connection with the death of an Indian under mysterious circumstances in a jail there.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
At least two Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses and one of Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation have been set on fire, they said.
Police on Thursday filed a case against suspended head constable Giriprasad Sarma who had taken the Superintendent of Police of the Police Transport Organisation (PTO) E Lakshmi Narayana hostage.
Police have warned other attackers may remain at large, and asked people to stay away from the city centre.
'The government and railways are looking after us, but I just want to get home.'
After examining the records of Alwar jail, a team of Kerala Police on Friday arrived in the city with German woman rape case convict Bitti Mohanty to establish his identity.
The CM said he spoke to the Mumbai Police Commissioner and was informed that traffic has been diverted at 25 places.
The woman, who is from Madhya Pradesh, was waiting for transport to return home around 10 pm when the duo stopped their vehicle, offered her a ride and raped her.
A court in Delhi on Monday sought an Action Taken Report from Delhi Police on a plea seeking registration of an FIR against the city transport minister and others, alleging the December 16 gangrape incident had occurred due to their "corrupt" activities.
The Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which works with one dose instead of two, got approval on Saturday, the third vaccine cleared in the country after emergency use authorisation (EUA) was given to two-dose shots from Pfizer and Moderna in December last year.
The voting will be held on November 30, December 7, 12, 16 and 20.
"Around 1,000 buses, including 40 luxury Volvo buses, refused to enter Delhi through the Badarpur, Kundli, IFFCO Chowk and Bahadurgarh borders," said Haryana Roadways Workers' Union leader Sarbat Punia.
Police on Friday arrested seven more persons in connection with the last Sunday's communal clashes in Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the old city, even as authorities announced a 14-hour relaxation of curfew on Saturday.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday relieved two of his secretaries of their duties in the Chief Minister's Office as part of a reshuffle of nearly a dozen Indian Administrative Service officers in the state.
The top court also directed authorities to consider withdrawing all cases against migrant workers for alleged violation of lockdown norms under the Disaster Management Act.
The aircraft (Airbus A-320 model) belonging to Air India was being transported by road from Begumpet airport to Central Training Establishment at Ferozguda in Balanagar when the crane bars got bent down and the aircraft suddenly fell on a nearby compound wall.
Krishna had sent fake flight tickets to his girlfriend, who wanted to go on a holiday to Mumbai and Goa, due to financial problems.
The AN-32 aircraft went missing on June 3 after taking off from Assam's Jorhat. The aircraft was headed for Mechuka Advanced Landing Ground in Arunachal Pradesh when it lost contact with ground authorities around 1 pm.
On reports of the BMC's move to take over some premises of the Wankhede stadium for quarantine facility, the commissioner said, "We are not taking over the cricket stadium or any other open space because in Mumbai it sometimes rains continuously for a week. It will not be useful at all for the administration to take care of people."
While eight children were taken out safely by people working in nearby fields, four, including a girl three-year-old girl, were charred to death, they added. Punjab CM Amarinder Singh ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident.
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