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Time of India
6 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Metro installing energy efficient lifts, escalators
1 2 3 4 Kanpur: The Kanpur Metro Rail Project's Corridor-1 (IIT to Naubasta) was extended from IIT Kanpur to Kanpur Central in two phases. Now, preparations are in full swing for the third phase to further extend services up to Naubasta. As part of this phase, installation work of lifts and escalators is progressing swiftly at seven stations between Kanpur Central and Naubasta, namely Jhakarkati, Transport Nagar, Baradevi, Kidwai Nagar, Basant Vihar, Baudh Nagar, and Naubasta. Among these, Jhakarkati and Transport Nagar are underground stations, while the remaining five--Baradevi, Kidwai Nagar, Basant Vihar, Baudh Nagar, and Naubasta--are elevated. Notably, all lifts and escalators being installed at these stations are being manufactured in India under the 'Make in India' initiative. As part of the balance section of Corridor-1 (Kanpur Central to Naubasta), a total of 23 escalators and 26 lifts are being installed to facilitate passenger movement from station entry points to the concourse level and from the concourse to the platform level. The installation work is already underway. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 20 Signs That A Heart Attack Is Imminent Learn It Wise Undo Each underground station will have 3 lifts and 4 escalators, while each elevated station will be equipped with 4 lifts and 3 escalators. So far, 11 out of the planned 23 escalators and 10 out of the 26 lifts were installed across all seven stations. Load testing is also being conducted alongside the installation of these systems. All lifts and escalators being used in the Kanpur Metro project were manufactured in Chennai, India under the 'Make in India' initiative. A key feature of these systems is their eco-friendliness. The lifts use regenerative braking technology that helps conserve energy. The smart escalators are designed to automatically pause when not in use for a certain period, further supporting energy conservation. From a safety standpoint, each escalator is equipped with three emergency stop buttons for quick shutdown in case of emergencies. These escalators also provide automatic announcements advising passengers to hold the handrail for their safety. Managing director of Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (UPMRC), Sushil Kumar, said, "Kanpur Metro team is fully committed to extending passenger services from Kanpur Central to Naubasta. To optimise time, system installations are being carried out in parallel with civil construction at all stations. All lifts and escalators installed are being manufactured domestically under the 'Make in India' initiative. Our entire team and contracting agencies are working with strong determination and meticulous planning to achieve our goal."
News18
20-07-2025
- News18
AIIMS Student Found Dead In Patna Hostel Room, Suicide Suspected; Cops Launch Probe
'His room was locked from the inside. Police immediately reached the spot, and other administrative officials were also called, and they broke into the room around 1 pm. The deceased was found lying on the bed. He was taken to the emergency ward where doctors declared him brought dead," said SDPO (Phulwarisharif-1) Sushil Kumar. No suicide note was found at the spot, police said, adding that Sahu's body had been sent for the post-mortem examination to determine the exact cause of the incident. AIIMS officials said he was a PG student in the gynaecology and obstetrics department, who had joined the college in January. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team was called to collect evidence from the scene, and the police have started an investigation into all possible aspects, including foul play, suicide, or medical condition, according to NDTV. The incident comes days after a second-year BDS student at Sharda University in Greater Noida died by suicide on Monday, citing harassment. Prior to this, a college student in Odisha's Balasore district died after setting herself on fire, allegedly over harassment by a teacher. Earlier in the day, Dr Tapeshwar Prasad, a retired official from the Health Department, was shot and seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Bihar. The incident took place while he was returning from his agricultural field when three criminals riding an Apache motorcycle ambushed and opened fire on him.
Mint
20-07-2025
- Sport
- Mint
How did Indian wrestling go from the best in the world to murder and sexual harassment allegations in ten years?
My enduring memory of Sushil Kumar, the wrestler who won two Olympic medals and became one of India's greatest sporting icons, comes from a time before his spectacular downfall as an accused in the murder of another wrestler (for which he spent four years in jail as an undertrial before being granted bail in March. It comes from that magic hour in an akhada, when, between the long, frenzied mat sessions in the morning and the never-ending, arduous physical conditioning workout in the evening, there is a happy lull—a time for food that always tastes delicious because the body is craving it, for meaningless banter (my memory is from pre-social media days), and extremely well-earned sleep, or in the words of the wrestlers, 'ghoda bech ke so gaye" (sold his horses and went to sleep). In Kumar's life, there were a couple of more things that happened during this four-hour rest and recovery period—as the 'saviour" of India's great tradition ofkushti, he had, for a controlled half-hour, a stream of visitors, and for another half hour, an interview with me for the book on Indian wrestling I was working on. We kept to this routine for nearly three months, sitting in his rundown room under the rafters of Chattrasaal Stadium in Delhi, curtains drawn against the sun outside, a small refrigerator, balanced on a pair of bricks, humming away in one corner, the smell of muscle spray and sweat, and the two of us talking about wrestling till he couldn't keep his eyes open any more. 'I'm giving you everything I've got," Kumar once told me. 'This (interviews) is harder than fighting!" Inevitably, just a few minutes before 4pm, a bunch of children would barge into the room—'Wake up, it's time. You said you'll train with us. Wake up!" Kumar would open his eyes with difficulty, squinting at the gaggle of eight-and-ten-year-olds, and sigh deeply. Later, on the mat, he would teach them moves, then allow himself to be taken down by them, feigning amazement that a child could throw him, to the unfailing delight of the kids. The year was 2012—an incredible time for Indian wrestling, when Kumar's two consecutive Olympic triumphs, and Yogeshwar Dutt's bronze, had lifted kushti from its rural roots to nationwide prominence. The four years (2012-16) that it took me to research and write Enter the Dangal, I was immersed in India's deep and varied culture of kushti at the precise moment when it was engaged in an epic tussle between tradition and modernity, between the akhada mitti and the sudden, if much needed introduction of Olympic mats across akhadas rural and urban. I had a ringside view of the immense upheaval triggered by the brave women and their families who decided to smash the gender divide in a sport that had been a carefully guarded male bastion for all of its hundreds of years of recorded history, and saw girls taking their first steps on a wrestling mat in far-flung villages, first in ones and twos in the face of fierce opposition, and then in droves after Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal in 2016. I stayed with the Phogats in their (then) idyllic village Balali, and watched a teenage Vinesh teaching her even younger sisters technique on the mat, including a little girl called Ritu, who loved climbing trees to pluck guavas, and who would later become India's first woman competitor in MMA. I was thrilled and awed by the speed, precision, and power that Vinesh generated—she looked small and thin off the mat, but turned into an unstoppable tornado on it—and I knew that she was going to do something big in the world of wrestling. There were so many new experiences, so much to learn: about the life of the itinerant wrestler, fighting in dust-swirl dangals amidst fields of wheat, and washing off at the nearby pond, the same way they have been doing it for hundreds of years. About the life of Ghulam Mohammed, aka the Great Gama, who every wrestler in India knows as the 'greatest wrestler to ever come from India". Gama was a phenomenal mat artist who remained unbeaten in his life in the early 20th century and was celebrated by the maharajas as well as the British during his career, but who died in obscurity in Pakistan, all but forgotten in real life even as his legend lived on. I learnt of the deep religious significance of wrestling in Hindu culture, of Hanuman as the patron god of the martial art, of akhada mitti in Varanasi where Tulsidas claimed Hanuman walked on himself, and the correct way to care for akhada mitti—cleared of all debris and tilled to fine loam, with mustard oil, rose petals, and turmeric water swirled in. Things that, along with wrestling techniques, can be found in courtly manuals written as far back as the 9th or 10th century (evidence of wrestling's cultural significance in the subcontinent is far older than that, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE)—techniques that are all very much still in use in modern freestyle wrestling. Almost a decade later, where does Indian wrestling stand now? This is a difficult, complex question to answer. On the one hand, the access to modern training facilities has gone up exponentially. Indian wrestlers don't really struggle on the international stage any more, and unlike before, the great tradition of kushti finds success on the global stage. India won its first medal in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics, before disappearing from the global stage. Then Sushil Kumar won a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games, and India has won at least one medal in wrestling (mostly two) at every Olympics since, as well as medals at every world championship across gender and age groups. The gap between mitti and mat has closed. A young boy or girl interested in wrestling, especially in Haryana, which completely dominates the sport in India, will find plenty of quality schools to join. There is also far more financial help from corporate and non-profit sponsors available to them, along with foreign coaches and training stints, than ever before. Yet, Kumar's fall from grace from being India's greatest Olympian to a murder accused with clear connections to gangsters took away some of the aura and claims to spirituality that kushti once had. If women entering the world of kushti was a remarkable act of defying and fighting patriarchal opposition, the women who made it happen took their fight to a whole new level when theyaccusedthe powerful strongman politician and then head of Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of sexual abuse. When they found that the federation, the sports ministry and the police intractable, Vinesh, Sakshi and others took to the streets, spending months protesting, braving police action and a system which, at first, tried its best to suppress them, got taken down in a stranglehold, and forced to conduct a police investigation that revealed the extent of Singh's sexual offences. Some things never change of course—like the corruption and political chokehold that sucks the air out of our sporting federations—the wrestling federation is run now by Singh's closest business partner. Other changes are inevitable and their effects unpredictable. The sports journalist Jonathan Selvaraj, who co-authored Sakshi Malik's incisive memoir Witness, points out that the rural setting in which kushti was preserved and where it thrived, is rapidly changing. For example, Sonepat, which was, as recently as a decade ago, a distinctly agrarian Haryana town surrounded by small villages, and an area which has produced more international wrestlers than any other in India, is now a major city with glass-fronted skyscrapers and multi-level elevated roadways. 'One of the results of this urbanisation, is that there are now many more options for kids who want to pick up a sport," Selvaraj says. 'Where previously there was only wrestling, now there are tennis courts, golf courses, cricket academies, shooting academies…one of the brightest shooters we have right now, Shuruchi Phogat (no relation to Vinesh) switched to shooting from wrestling, and her father was a wrestler. The way every kid in Haryana went into wrestling during Sushil's time, that just won't happen now." This access to more sports facilities, as well as money and comfortable lifestyles, Selvaraj says, will make it harder for the wrestling culture to hold on to its pre-eminence in places like Haryana. 'Because, face it, wrestling is an insane sport," Selvaraj says. 'No other sport demands as much time and sacrifice. It is physically and mentally harder than any other sport. It requires a tremendous amount of input—of years and years of intense training that leaves time for nothing else, starting from a very young age—for very little and very unpredictable outcomes. So, you can't just create wrestlers with programmes and money, you need that intense, deeply entrenched culture. And that culture in India is probably eroding." It reminded me of a dangal I attended with a wrestler called Satbir, who I followed for an entire dangal season for my book. The tournament was being held in a village called Tungaheri in Punjab. Satbir and I sat in the shade of a peepul tree next to a pond as he waited for his bout. Children were frolicking in one corner of the pond. In another corner, a few women were scrubbing down their buffaloes. 'Better to sit here than watch the kushti," Satbir said, taking me by surprise. All I knew of him, all I had seen, was him training and fighting. 'I do it for the money, and nothing else. If I could make the same money some other way, I would do it and leave this. I have started asking around with former pahalwans in Delhi who run real estate businesses." This is just a polite way of saying 'gangsters". 'But what about becoming an international wrestler?" I ask. 'I don't care about it," Satbir said, and then pointed to the children in the water. 'I'd rather swim here than fight." Rudraneil Sengupta is the author of The Beast Within, a detective novel set in Delhi and Enter The Dangal: Travels Through India's Wrestling Landscape
NDTV
20-07-2025
- NDTV
Bihar AIIMS Student Found Dead In Hostel Room, Cops Launch Probe
A first-year MBBS student at AIIMS Patna was found dead inside his hostel room on Saturday in Phulwarishrif PS, according to an official. The student, identified as Yadavendra Shahu, was a resident of Odisha and stayed in the AIIMS Patna hostel room. According to Sushil Kumar, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Phulwari Sharif, the incident came to light when the local police station received a call around 1 pm, stating that the student's room had not been opened since morning. His mobile phone was found ringing inside, raising suspicion. The local police team reached the hostel immediately, and the door was opened in the presence of AIIMS administration officials and a magistrate. The body of the student was found lying on the bed. "His body was found lying on the bed. He is a resident of Odisha. An investigation is being carried out. An enquiry is being prepared. A post-mortem will be carried out. A witness will be found," SDPO Sushil Kumar further added. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team was called to collect evidence from the scene, and the police have started an investigation into all possible aspects, including foul play, suicide, or medical condition. The officials said that the student's family has been informed, and a post-mortem will be conducted to ascertain the exact cause of death. The investigation is ongoing, and further details are awaited. Earlier in the day, in a shocking incident, Dr Tapeshwar Prasad, a retired official from the Health Department, was shot and seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Bihar. The incident took place while he was returning from his agricultural field when three criminals riding an Apache motorcycle ambushed and opened fire on him. According to initial reports, Dr Prasad sustained a gunshot wound to his jaw. After receiving emergency treatment at a local facility, he was referred to Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College in Gaya for further care. His condition remains critical.
Deccan Herald
16-07-2025
- Deccan Herald
Tumakuru man held for posing as cybercrime police officer to extort money by threatening 'arrests'
According to the complaint filed on July 15, Arun allegedly contacted individuals who had commented on popular Facebook pages posing as Sushil Kumar, a Bengaluru Cybercrime Police officer.
