The underwater tunnel is being constructed at an expense of Rs 60 crore while the total cost of the East-West Metro project is evaluated to be around Rs 9,000 crore. The tunnelling work began in April last year and likely to be finished in the river section shortly, said by senior Railway Minster.
The ninth Ficci-IBA survey in their report said the proportion of respondent banks citing a reduction in NPAs stood at 52 per cent as against 43 per cent in the previous round. About 55 per cent of reporting public sector banks (PSBs) have cited a reduction in NPA levels.
The animal park, atop Dalma Hill, will soon be having its own zip line, an adventurous way of transporting goods or people downhill, the contraption likely to increase the destinations’ thrill quotient among tourists. The Centre has earmarked the Dalma sanctuary, 30km from here, for the zip line project which it will fund under Swadesh Darshan Scheme.
“The Centre is giving up to 8% subsidy on purchase of machines like Super SMS, Happy Seeder, Paddy Straw Chopper and zero till drill used for residue management. Those farmers who don’t want to buy these machines can easily get them on rent from Custom Hiring Centres (CHCs) in their neighbourbood,” he said.
Recorded in the enthralling voice of renowned Indian singer, Javed Ali, the song both lyrically and visually outlines the beauty and might of India.The video of the song features key historical occurrences of recent past including inauguration of the National War Memorial, Statue of Unity’s unveiling, the launch of Chandrayaan 2 among other things.
Set up to guard passengers and goods on trains in critical rail sectors of India, the Commandos for Railway Safety (CORAS) will be deployed in Naxal-prone belts, Jammu and Kashmir and North East after its maiden launch on Wednesday, a senior official said.
According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-2 was successfully carried out at 2.21 a.m. by firing the spacecraft’s motors for 1,203 seconds.
According to the officials, ISIS terrorists along with their sympathizers in Afghanistan and India were planning to carry out terror activities across India, for which they have been provoking Muslim youths through different Telegram groups.
On Sunday evening, the Air Force received a request to rescue a large number of people stranded on a road that was washed away at a causeway near Hajipir dargah at Bhuj in Kutch district, a defence official said. “The South Western Air Command (SWAC) responded swiftly and sent a Mi17 helicopter from Jamnagar. The helicopter took three shuttles and rescued 125 people.
After receiving these combat aircraft equipped with Meteor missile, SCALP ground attack missiles with a range of up to 300 Kms will undergo extensive trials before being formally inducted in the service in 2020.
