A Chhattisgarh government employee drained lakhs of litres of water from a dam after his mobile phone fell into it in the state’s Kanker district. Now, the Office of Superintendent Engineer has ordered that the cost for water wasted be recovered from the salary of SDO RK Dhivar, the official who allegedly gave verbal permission to empty 3-4 feet of …
A Chhattisgarh government officer was suspended and another faces paycut after 21 lakh litre of water was drained from a reservoir for three days to recover an expensive phone. Rajesh Vishwas, who dropped his phone worth Rs 96,000 into the 15-foot-deep water, justified his action saying the water was unusable for irrigation and he had got permission from a senior …
India’s Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery is drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country’s maiden interplanetary mission Mangalyaan may have finally completed its long innings. The ₹450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit on …
