NEW DELHI: State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Saturday said it had made significant progress in its efforts to contain the gas blowout at well RDS#147A in Assam’s Rudrasagar oilfield, with the flow rate of natural gas having reduced substantially. The blowout — or uncontrolled gas flow — occurred on June 12 at…
JAMMU: Rajouri administration Wednesday declared Badhaal village a containment zone and prohibited all gatherings in the area after five residents were hospitalised since the previous evening. Since Dec, 17 members of three families — including six minor siblings — in Badhaal have succumbed to a ‘mystery illness’ even as many others continue to take ill.The…
In June 1972, Judge Roth ordered a broad integration plan, which included such prosperous suburbs as Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills in the same “metropolitan” school district as Detroit. That is, he established a system of “busing” — a word that was every bit as politically incendiary at that time as “trans” is today. The…