NEW DELHI: In a first, the Railways will now use Google Maps to link the location of candidates appearing for its exams to test centres within a 300-km radius in order to cut their travel time.
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CBI files charge sheet against 41 in Bengal coal pilferage case
KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation has named 41 people, including senior officials of Eastern Coalfields Limited, in its charge sheet filed at a court in West Bengal’s Asansol in a multi-crore coal pilferage scam.
Libya energy crisis: Libyans at boiling point amid 18-hour-long power cuts
LIBYA: Mahmud Aguil has a comfortable house in Libya’s capital Tripoli, but chronic power outages in the war-battered country and roasting summer heat now force him to sleep in his air-conditioned van.
Russian President Putin warns West of further cut-in oil flow, price rice as consequences of sanctions
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it is the West’s own fault that the flow of Russian natural gas to European customers has dwindled and warned that it could continue ebbing. Putin’s statement further cranked up the pressure on the European Union, which fears Russia could cut off gas to wreak economic and political […]
China speeding up approvals for new coal plants despite vowing to decrease usage from 2026
BEIJING: China has ramped up approvals for new coal power plants this year, Greenpeace said Wednesday, with authorities trying to lower the risk of economically painful electricity shortages.
Fraudsters now target TSSPDCL consumers
HYDERABAD: Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) authorities have noticed that some persons are sending fraudulent messages to electricity consumers under the guise of collecting pending power consumption bills. Officials said the fraudsters even threaten to disconnect their power supply if they don’t pay the bill immediately.
Bad roads top complaints against Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation
COIMBATORE: Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) resumed its weekly public grievance redressal meeting on Tuesday. Participants raised complaints about the condition of roads in the city, which got worse after the onset of the South West monsoon.
‘Don’t increase electricity tariff’, say Tamil Nadu power loom owners
COIMBATORE: Over 1.5 lakh power loom owners across the State, especially in the Kongu region, have urged the State government to drop its plan to revise the power tariff, saying they are suffering losses due to poor returns.
AIADMK to protest against new power tariff on July 25 across Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: AIADMK has scheduled a demonstration on July 25 to protest against the proposed hike in the electricity tariff, at the party’s district unit headquarters across Tamil Nadu.
Coimbatore’s Senthil Nagar residents await road for 12 years, official says work will start soon
COIMBATORE: Residents of the Senthil Nagar of ward 50 in Sowripalayam have been playing the waiting game with the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) for more than 12 years to get damaged roads in their area fixed.
Poor road condition of Link Road to Badambadi bus stand irks residents of Cuttack
CUTTACK: The condition of the road stretching from Link Road to Badambadi bus stand has gone from bad to worse with its proposed improvement and beautification plan hanging in balance for the last three years.
Runway at Rs 12-crore NCC airstrip in Kerala’s Idukki washed away in heavy rain
IDUKKI: At a time when Idukki’s ambitious project to launch the maiden flight from the National Cadet Corps (NCC) airstrip at Sathram near Kumily was in the works, a mudslide has washed away a portion of the runway.