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NHAI sets 10-minute ambulance response

New Delhi: State-owned NHAI has set a 10-minute deadline for ambulances deployed on national highways to reach any accident site within a 10-km vicinity, to cut delays in emergency response. It said failure to meet the timeline could attract a penalty of Rs 10,000 per...

US names India in China tariff-evasion network

Washington: US Thursday accused more than 40 countries, including India, of operating a “shadow transhipment network” to help China evade high tariffs and unveiled plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and penalise such practices. In a report titled ‘The Great Trans shipment Scam’,...

E20 petrol

E20 worries Indian carmakers

New Delhi: Hours after India made public assurances last week that ethanol-blended petrol was safe, the country’s main auto lobby withdrew a complaint about fuel contamination it had sent to the government a week earlier, saying some figures needed more checks. But separate communications between...

RG Kar Medical College and Hospital

RG Kar case: Ex-TMC MLA arrested in Baleshwar

Kolkata: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from Baleshwar in Odisha Thursday over his alleged involvement in the “hurried cremation” of the doctor, who was raped and murdered at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in 2024, police said. Ghosh,...

Fire

Blast at Sivakasi fireworks factory kills two workers

Chennai: Two workers were killed after a powerful explosion triggered a major fire at a licensed fireworks factory near Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district Thursday, officials said. The accident occurred at the manufacturing unit in Namaskarithanpatti while employees were engaged in production work. The...

 

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Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram seeks 2-month extension for Aravalli committee deadline

New Delhi: The Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram has sought that the chairperson of the high-powered committee constituted under the ...

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