Latest News, highlights Today August 31, 2024: Punjab to face hefty penalties for delay in Flue Gas Desulphurisation installation at thermal power plants
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Latest news on August 31, 2024: The Punjab government might face penalty nearing <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>400 crore per year for its failure to comply with timely installation of Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) systems in thermal power plants (TPPs) across the state. (HT File)
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Aug 31, 2024 11:57 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Punjab to face hefty penalties for delay in Flue Gas Desulphurisation installation at thermal power plants
- The Punjab government might face penalty nearing ₹400 crore per year for its failure to comply with timely installation of Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) systems in thermal power plants (TPPs) across the state.
Aug 31, 2024 11:54 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Wrestler Vinesh visits farmers at Shambhu, urges Modi government to “have a big heart”
- Wrestler Vinesh Phogat reached the farmers’ protest site at Shambhu border in Punjab on Saturday and expressed her solidarity with the farmers and condemned the labelling of their struggle as political.
Aug 31, 2024 11:52 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Farm leaders announce 2-hour rail roko protest on October 3 to mark 200 days of farmers’ stir
- Farm unions called for a two-hour rail roko protest on October 3, the third anniversary of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, where eight people, including four farmers and a journalist, were killed in 2021 during a protest against now repealed three farm laws.
Aug 31, 2024 11:50 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Citizen forum forces PMC to invoke defect liability period clause on damaged road
- The Karvenagar Citizens Forum had filed a complaint regarding a ₹25-lakh road project on Dnyandeep Colony Lane Number 1 that developed cracks and damage within days of construction
Aug 31, 2024 11:49 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Citizen forum forces PMC to invoke defect liability period clause on damaged road
- The Karvenagar Citizens Forum had filed a complaint regarding a ₹25-lakh road project on Dnyandeep Colony Lane Number 1 that developed cracks and damage within days of construction
Aug 31, 2024 11:48 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Sweet shop worker held under POCSO
- A 35-year-old employee of a sweets shop has been arrested for the sexual harassment of a 12-year-old girl. The incident was reported between June 1 and August 30
Aug 31, 2024 11:47 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Six cops assaulted monthly in Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad
- Data from the Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad police departments reveal that between 2020 and 2024, Pune reported 200 attacks on police personnel, while Pimpri-Chinchwad reported 156
Aug 31, 2024 11:47 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Realtors demand more time, waivers to complete stuck housing projects
- The realtors’ demand came in the wake of the Uttar Pradesh government directing officials to cancel allotment of housing land made to promoters who have failed to pay their financial dues
Aug 31, 2024 11:47 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Six cops assaulted monthly in Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad
- Data from the Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad police departments reveal that between 2020 and 2024, Pune reported 200 attacks on police personnel, while Pimpri-Chinchwad reported 156
Aug 31, 2024 11:47 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Rising cases of assault by bouncers at housing societies in Pune
- The members of society appealed to the government to come up with clear-cut guidelines that guarantee citizen safety over the issue
Aug 31, 2024 11:44 PM IST
World News Live Updates: UN draft shows developing nations expect trillions for climate mitigation efforts
- According to the document, the Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group, which includes India, expects at least $1 trillion mobilised by developed countries yearly from 2025 to 2030
Aug 31, 2024 11:43 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Noida: Sector 39 district hospital to start DNB course
- Two seats have been allocated in the gynecology department while one in the medicine department that will allow candidates to pursue studies and also offer consultations
Aug 31, 2024 11:42 PM IST
India News Live Updates: Haryana poll date shifted, results now on Oct 8
- BJP’s state unit chief Mohan Lal Badoli wrote to EC on August 22, nearly a week after it announced the schedule for the elections in Haryana and J&K, seeking a change in the poll dates
Aug 31, 2024 11:42 PM IST
India News Live Updates: After a wet August, IMD says Sept to be rainy too
- The month follows what was a wetter-than-normal August, which received 16% more rain than the average
Aug 31, 2024 11:42 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Two held for fight at Dankaur fair after video goes viral
- The police intervened to stop the altercation and resorted to a lathi-charge to control the situation.
Aug 31, 2024 11:41 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: HC asks Punjab to deposit ₹12 crore; CPCB to conduct tests at all STP plants
- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Punjab government to deposit ₹12 crore with high court registry and also asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to conduct tests at all sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Punjab to check pollution levels in the water being discharged from these plants.
Aug 31, 2024 11:41 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Noida: 3 held over mobile phone warehouse theft
- During interrogation, the two revealed that Ravinder was the mastermind of the theft and he had conducted a reconnaissance of the warehouse as an electrician
Aug 31, 2024 11:39 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: {Day after being held ‘tankhaiya’} Sukhbir appears before Takht, tenders apology
- A day after being held ‘tankhaiya’ (guilty of religious misconduct) by Akal Takht for the mistakes committed by his party’s government from 2007 to 2017, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday appeared before the highest temporal seat of Sikhs and again tendered a written apology.
Aug 31, 2024 11:35 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Submit timeline for Pavana River conservation work: NGT tells CPCB
- The directive comes after the recent hearings in which the CPCB submitted an action plan prepared in 2019 under the national river rejuvenation mission
Aug 31, 2024 11:33 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: NGT order on noise pollution: Pune Police assure implementation, MPCB cites difficulties
- The August 30 order of Western Zonal Bench of NGT has directed MPCB and police to ensure real-time noise monitoring at all Ganesh pandals and display the readings with permissible limits prominently at at least two locations, besides instructing authorities to limit dhol-tasha group to 30 members and ban on DJ and toll systems
Aug 31, 2024 11:30 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: MLA West measures flow of Budhha Nullah
- After the controversy of damaging his own foundation stone of Buddha Nullah project, Gurpreet Gogi, the MLA from Ludhiana West, measured the water flow in Buddha Nullah on Saturday by sitting in a boat.
Aug 31, 2024 11:23 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Ludhiana: NGT appoints court commissioner in solid waste management case
- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has appointed advocate Bhanwar Pal Singh as the court commissioner in a case of solid waste mismanagement involving the municipal corporation, Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT), and Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA).
Aug 31, 2024 11:18 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan to commence from September 3 in Ludhiana
- The Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan 2024 sports event will officially start, with games in Ludhiana beginning at the block level on September 3. The competitions will be held across 14 blocks in Ludhiana district from September 3 to 11.
Aug 31, 2024 11:17 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: ‘Criminal negligence’: BJP slams AAP govt over air pollution
- AAP’s Gopal Rai questioned why the BJP was avoiding a meeting called to discuss ways to reduce pollution in the city in winters
Aug 31, 2024 11:17 PM IST
Cities Live Updates: Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan to commence from September 3 in Ludhiana
- The Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan 2024 sports event will officially start, with games in Ludhiana beginning at the block level on September 3. The competitions will be held across 14 blocks in Ludhiana district from September 3 to 11.
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