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Three persons suffered burn injuries after a leaking gas pipeline caught fire on a road in Mumbai's Andheri area early on Sunday, an official said. Two vehicles were also damaged in the incident, he said. The Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) in a statement later said the pipeline was damaged due to the "JCB impact during unauthorised, uncontrolled digging". The blaze erupted at 12.35 am in a heavily leaking supply pipeline of the MGL, passing through the middle of a road at Sher-E-Punjab society near a gurdwara at Takshila in Andheri (East) area, a fire official said earlier in the day. It was a "level-one" fire which was confined to two moving vehicles, he said. A two-wheeler rider, Arvindkumar Kaithal (21), suffered 30 to 40 per cent burns, another biker, Aman Harishankar Saroj (22), sustained 40 to 50 per cent burn injuries, and auto-rickshaw driver Suresh Kailas Gupta (52) suffered 20 per cent burns, he said. A water tanker, a fire engine and other assistance were rushed to the sp
Heavy machinery maker JCB expects to maintain double-digit growth in India with the rollout of a new range of emission norms, stage 5, ready construction equipment, a senior company official said on Sunday. While speaking at the launch of the new range of construction machines, JCB India CEO and managing director Deepak Shetty said the new machines will help customers save fuel cost of up to Rs 18.5 lakh over five years. "We are very excited to launch Stage 5 ready range of machines. These machines will be better in fuel efficiency from 10 to 15 per cent. They are more productive, have less maintenance cost, and overall, they will have less total cost of ownership for our customers, for the operators will operate these machines," Shetty said. The company will discontinue production of the old models with the launch of new ranges of machines. Shetty said that JCB will continue to support existing equipment throughout their lifetime. He said that the new range of machines comes with
The Haryana Police on Wednesday asked owners of excavators to withdraw their machines from the protest site, where farmers are set to resume their 'Delhi Chalo' march, else they will be held liable for action. According to police, these excavators might cause harm to security personnel deployed at the two border points of Punjab and Haryana if protesting farmers used them. "For owners and operators of Poclains,JCBs: Please do not provide your equipment to the protestors and withdraw them from the protest site if already done, as they may be used to cause harm to security forces. It is a non-bailable offence and you may be held criminally liable," said police in a post on X. Farmers, protesting at the two border points of Punjab and Haryana, will resume their 'Delhi Chalo' march on Wednesday after they rejected the BJP-led Centre's proposal for procuring pulses, maize and cotton at the MSP by government agencies for five years. The Haryana Police on Tuesday urged its Punjab ...
Authorities carried out a drive on Wednesday and demolished three illegal colonies here, officials said. The team used a JCB machine to demolish illegal constructions, boundary walls of four plots among other structures, they said. District Town Planner (Enforcement) Amit Madholia said these illegal colonies had come up in Farrukhnagar, Mubarikpur and Taj Nagar. The department had received a complaint which was investigated, he said. "After probing the matter, the complaint was found to be true following which notices were also issued to those who developed these colonies illegally. "They were instructed to remove the illegal constructions but even after issuing them notices, when these structures were not removed, the department's team demolished the three illegal colonies spread over five-and-a-half acres. The drive against the illegal construction will be continue," said Madholia said.