-Hindustan Times The Police on Monday arrested nine persons, including four officials of Oreva group, the company that renovated the bridge and opened it for public on October 26 days, four days before it collapsed on Sunday. Morbi: The Police on Monday arrested nine persons, including four officials of Oreva group, the company that renovated the bridge and opened it for public on October 26 days, four days before it collapsed on...
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Gujarat: 130 die as suspension bridge over Machhu river collapses
-Reuters, PTI/ The Telegraph TV footage showed dozens of people clinging on to the cables and twisted remains of the collapsed structure as emergency teams struggled to rescue them Morbi: The death toll in Morbi suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat rose to 130 on Monday with rescue personnel recovering more bodies from the Machchhu river, a Police official said, reports PTI. At least 60 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge over a...
More »Apple farmers stir may affect Himachal Pradesh polls again
-Deccan Herald Since the Apple agitation 30 years ago, apple growers have hardly hit the streets Kotkhai/Theog/Fagu: In 1990, Himachal Pradesh saw one of the fiercest agitations by apple growers. The demand by the protestors from the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government headed by Shanta Kumar was to fix a minimum support price for the apple crop. In a gathering on July 22 that year in Kotgarh, where hundreds of protestors...
More »Promise of 300 days of work under MGNREGA fails to prevent exodus of labourers from Odisha -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Over past 10 days, the Balangir Police have prevented 500 workers from migrating to other States KANTABANJI (ODISHA): Juta Majhi was just a few kilometres away from the Kantabanji railway station in Odisha when the Balangir district Police intercepted him last week. Mr. Majhi, 38, a resident of Badibahal under the Khaprakhol Police station in the district, and his family members were planning to board a train to Karnataka and travel...
More »Don’t wait for complaints to act against hate speech, Supreme Court tells Police -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu “Hesitation” to comply with the direction would attract proceedings for contempt of the Supreme Court against the erring officers, the court said. The Supreme Court on October 21 said it is "tragic what we have reduced religion to" in the 21st century and a "climate of hate prevails in the country", while directing Police and authorities to immediately and suo motu register cases against hate speech makers without waiting for...
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