Kolkata: Shooting of ‘Kone Dekha Alo’ will resume on Friday after the production house and channel agreed to West Bengal Motion Picture Artists’ Forum’s demand to provide all necessary documentary evidence confirming that Leena Gangopadhyay has been officially removed from the board of directors of Organinc Studios Pvt Ltd.On Thursday, Forum’s general secretary Shantilal Mukherjee…
Ponda: The special land acquisition officer of PWD has invited claims for compensation from owners whose land had been acquired for the widening of the Ponda–Bhoma highway.The officer has acquired an additional land of 46,308sqm for the widening of the road. A notification has been issued, with the area covering the villages of Priol, Veling,…
Varanasi: Ballia police lodged FIR against two inspectors suspended on charges of seeking sexual favour from a rape survivor. Further investigation is in progress.Ballia CO (Rasra) Alok Kumar Gupta on Thursday said both suspended inspectors had been booked on charges of sexual harassment by word, gesture, act or object exhibition intended to insult modesty of…
Ahmedabad: The North Zone estate department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Thursday levied a penalty ranging from Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 lakh on four construction sites in the Gota, Bodakdev and Chandlodia areas of the city for failing to follow environmental regulations and contributing to air pollution.At the ongoing construction site of…
Panchkula: With the objective of effectively curbing road accidents and ensuring the safety of citizens, a team from the Surajpur Traffic Police Station, Panchkula, led by In-charge Sub-Inspector Abhishek, conducted a comprehensive road safety campaign.As part of this campaign, special warning sign boards were strategically installed at identified “black spots” (accident-prone zones), high-risk areas, and…
Pune: Residents of a large township in Hinjewadi have come together to crowdfund the removal of a thick layer of water lettuce choking the Mula river nearby, after repeated complaints to multiple authorities bore no fruit. They have spent around Rs2 lakh from their own pockets to do the job after no official paid heed…
Silchar: At least nine people, including three women, were injured — five of them critically — in a head-on collision between an autorickshaw and a motorcycle at Kalacherra under Bazaricherra police station in Assam’s Sribhumi district, police said.The accident took place on the Lowairpoa–Kanmun road on Thursday evening when the two vehicles collided, prompting locals…
Lucknow: The UP forest department has prepared a plan to check man-monkey conflict, which includes both short-term and long-term measures, said minister of state for environment, forest and climate change (independent charge), Arun Kumar Saxena on Thursday.He said that coordination committees, headed by DMs, have been constituted for the purpose. “Field officials have been asked…
JAIPUR: Governor Haribhau Bagde has approved prosecution sanction under the Code of Criminal Procedure against former Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) member Babulal Katara after offences related to his involvement in the leak of recruitment exams conducted by RPSC were proved. The governor earlier ordered Katara’s suspension.Earlier in March, the Supreme Court revoked the interim…
Amit Shah and Akhilesh Yadav NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday suggested that Lok Sabha proceedings be paused for an hour so he could bring an official amendment that there would be a 50% increase in the number of seats per state after delimitation.“If the reason to oppose this bill is that…
