-The Times of India AJMER: The residents of Ramsar village toiled hard for five months to prepare the barren land in this village so that they can conserve water. Ramsar region which received eight inches of water in pre-monsoon showers filled this lake. Now, this water is recharging the wells of nearby villages. District collector Gaurav Goyal on Friday went to inspect the work and congratulated the villagers for carrying forwards chief...
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Flood leaves 150 Uttarakhand villages without power -Yogesh Kumar & Arpita Chakrabarty
-The Times of India DEHRADUN/ ALMORA: Over 900 villages across the state had plunged into darkness when cloudbursts and incessant rains hit Uttarakhand on July 1. Of these, around 150 are still in the dark. Senior officials of the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) said on Monday that the scale of damage to transmission lines was "unprecedented" . "The strong winds and continued rains snapped many poles and supply lines were also...
More »Shimla to adopt odd-even formula
-The Times of India Shimla: To overcome the problem of traffic jam and decongest the roads of Shimla town, the district administration is thinking of introducing the odd -even formula for vehicles. With a rise in the number of vehicles, including those of tourists, the town is witnessing traffic jams, and the problem aggravates during the peak tourist season. To devise ways and means of decongesting roads in Shimla, and to regulate...
More »Lax norms linked to banking fraud: CAG
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Blaming weaknesses in the regulatory system as being the reason behind the rising cases of financial sector fraud, comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Shashi Kant Sharma on Friday drew attention to huge non-performing assets (NPAs) of public sector banks, a significant part of which could have been fraudulently obtained as advances by debtors and transferred abroad, from where they may never be recovered. The CAG also...
More »Machine fails to read fingerprints, 1.4cr Rajasthanis go without ration -Rosamma Thomas
-The Times of India Jaipur: They were meant to ease processes and clean up corruption in distributing food grain to the poor. Instead, the e-Point of Sale (PoS) machines have thrown up more problems than solutions. Each of these devices costs roughly Rs 17,000. They are programmed to read fingerprints of those registered to receive subsidized grain, connect to the Aadhaar database over the Internet and authenticate the recipient. Clearly, things aren't playing...
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