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Bengaluru airport posts growth in cargo volumes after COVID-19 induced slump

3:30 pm October 21, 2020

Bengaluru: After a prolonged slump due to COVID-19,cargo volumes at Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (KIAB/ BLR Airport) recorded positive growth in September with international freight leading the recovery. The cargo processed last month was 32,449 MT, a growth of0.3 per cent, against the same period last year, according an airport statement on Wednesday. September 2020 witnessed a […]

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Labourer engaged in installing drainage pipeline buried alive

7:31 pm August 13, 2020

Erode: A 24-year-old labourer died while he was involved in connecting pipes in an underground drain here on Thursday, police said. The worker Anandhan was engaged by the Erode Municipal Corporation on contract to install the pipelines to take the sewage, when the soil caved in and he was buried alive. On seeing this, the other workers […]

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Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

I-T dept busts Rs 3,300-cr hawala racket involving infra firms

10:16 pm November 11, 2019

New Delhi: The CBDT on Monday claimed that the Income Tax Department has busted a hawala racket worth Rs 3,300-crore and spread across multiple cities such as Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad with links to “leading corporate houses” in the infrastructure sector. The raids to unearth the large tax evasion nexus were conducted in the first […]

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Assam: Elephant dies after getting stuck in wetland

Elderly man trampled to death by elephant

8:24 pm July 19, 2019

Erode (TN): A 72-year-old man has been trampled to death by an elephant in Burgur forest here while he was herding cattle home, police said Friday. Kenjan entered the forest in Manjal Parai area on Thursday and did not return home. So, the villagers, along with forest and police officials went looking for Kenjan in […]

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