Ahmedabad: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls appears to have played a role in driving up voter turnout in the 2026 Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) elections. While the number of people who voted stayed almost the same, the turnout percentage rose sharply by 9.3 points.In 2021, 19.65 lakh votes were cast from a…
Jalandhar: The Punjab unit of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has intensified its campaign against seven Rajya Sabha members who defected to the BJP, deploying imagery of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to brand them “traitors” of the state.The strategy, which appears restricted to Punjabi-language social media handles, leverages deep-seated regional apprehensions regarding Hindutva politics…
Pune: The civic administration has decided to widen a long-pending stretch of the main Aundh Road, ahead of Bremen Chowk and towards the Rajiv Gandhi bridge, in a bid to remove the bottleneck faced by vehicles due to narrow carriageway width. The three heritage structures located along this stretch will now be shifted to other…
Surat: A 39-year-old man was murdered by five members of a family after he confronted them over their teenage son for allegedly making sexually suggestive gestures his daughter in the Limbayat area late on Sunday night.The Limbayat Police Station have arrested four adults and detained a minor in connection with the case.Police said the incident…
Dimapur: Nagaland University, the only central university in the state, has launched four-year undergraduate science programmes at its Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre (MDRC).The applications will be accepted from April 27 to May 18.The centre offers core courses in physics, chemistry, mathematics, zoology, botany and ability enhancement courses along with value added courses to build a holistic…
A five-member gang of daily-wage workers allegedly broke into an air-conditioner warehouse in Hazratganj to “beat the heat” and earn quick money, only to be arrested within 24 hours by Lucknow Police Lucknow: What they thought would be a cool job instead brought cops in their hot pursuit.A five-member gang of daily wagers devised a…
Rajkot: A 53-year-old man, Gordhan Panchani, was killed in a fire that engulfed his second-floor flat in Prabhu Krupa Apartments near Panchvati Circle in Jamnagar early on Monday morning. Local residents alerted the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation fire department around 5.40am. Firefighters quickly brought the blaze under control. As the apartment door was locked from the…
Udaipur: A mob of around 500 people went on a rampage in Tamtiya village of Banswara district late Sunday night, torching 20-25 thatched houses and cattle enclosures and vandalising several pucca homes and vehicles. Police said the mob fury was in retaliation for the murder of a 27-year-old man, Govind Maheda, over an inter-caste love…
Indian and Chinese national flags New Delhi: India and China remain in touch to strengthen cooperation under Brics mechanism, with Beijing endorsing India’s ongoing presidency of group and Indian govt appreciating China’s support for activities hosted by India under the mechanism. Chinese special envoy Zhai Jun, who was here last week for the West Asia…
Retired Counter-Strike pro pashaBiceps has once again made headlines, but this time for a very kind reason. He sold one of the most famous knife skins in Counter-Strike for over $21,000. Instead of keeping the money, he decided to donate all of it to a children’s cancer charity in Poland. The money went to the…
