Curated News Articles - 10-08-2018 07 hrs

On the day TOI highlighted the worsening state of Delhi’s air, the National Green Tribunal cited the report and issued a slew of directions to immediately address the problem.

Jet had last Friday said that the incident happened when their plane was trying to take off from the runway. But the preliminary probe by Saudi authorities has found that the lane was trying to take off from a taxiway parallel to the take off-designated runway at full power.

Despite claims of strict safety measures taken post November 2nd Wagah , Pakistan, suicide bomb blast, the security officials here recovered 7.480 kilogram heroin from goods train that arrived from Pakistan on Wednesday.

The ministry of Home Affairs has invited suggestions for proposed amendments in the Prevention of Damage to Public Property (PDPP) Act, 1984. The proposed amendments seek to deter the prospective violators from vandalizing and destroying public/private property during agitations and other forms of protests.

Armed with the umbrella painted with the slogan "Kaala dhan wapas lao, wapas lao", the MPs stormed into the well and shouted slogans against the government until Speaker Sumitra Mahajan was forced to adjourn the House till noon.

The BSE Metal index was trading 0.96 per cent down at 13,157 around 12:55 pm.

“Expecting megacaps to grow at 20-25% for next 100 years is nonsense.”

The S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.3 per cent but managed to end the week 0.7 per cent higher.

UP was followed by Rajasthan, which constructed 2,54,953 toilets, and Karnataka, which got 2,41,708 toilets built in the same period, it said.

Among the winners is a Delhi-based Facebook citizen group -- 'My Delhi Keep It Clean' -- which is being awarded for promoting efforts to clean public places.

He said that by 2022, when the country will celebrate 75 years of Independence, the target would be removing all social ills and poverty.