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Kendrapara remembers Param Vir Chakra Hero Abdul Hamid

Glowing tributes were paid to Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid, one of India's most celebrated war heroes, on his 93rd birth anniversary at a commemorative programme organised by the SHIFA Social Welfare and Educational Society in Kendrapara on Wednesday.

Trial incineration of 10 tons of Bhopal gas tragedy waste begins

More than 40 years after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in December 1984, the trial incineration of 10 tons of waste, out of the total 337 metric tons, from the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal finally began around 3 pm on Friday at ‘Ramky Enviro’, a private incineration facility at Pithampur in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, under heavy police security.