Varanasi: The demolition drive for the ambitious Dalmandi road widening project resumed on Monday after a brief pause, with only 36 of the 187 identified buildings now remaining to be removed. Once completed, the Rs 224-crore project will widen the 650-metre stretch to 17.4 metres, creating a wider, congestion-free approach to the Kashi Vishwanath Dham…
Ahmedabad: The registration process for diploma engineering admissions after Class X has been completed, with 40,766 students applying for 60,155 seats this year. The admission committee has released a provisional merit list comprising 40,059 students. Some candidates have been assigned a zero-merit rank due to incomplete document submissions.The top rank was secured by a Rajkot…
Footfall Touches 27.4L In ’24-25, Up From 27.1L Previous Year Chandigarh Chandigarh: The latest annual report of PGI shows a staggering OPD load, with total footfall rising to 27,45,078 visits in 2024-25, up from 27,12,638 in 2023-24. The figures point to a gradual shift in patient dynamics across north India, with the premier institute increasingly…
The IMD’s local forecast stated that Pune city was likely to experience generally cloudy skies with light rain on July 1 and light to moderate rain thereafter. Pune: After days of subdued monsoon activity, rainfall finally intensified sharply over parts of the Western Ghats in Maharashtra, with several stations recording triple-digit rainfall in the 24…
The demolished houses in Surat’s Nasirnagar slum Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Monday pulled up civic authorities over the demolition of nearly 100 houses in Surat’s Nasirnagar slum, saying it appeared the razing was carried out under the garb of road demarcation. The court also criticised the police for not intervening, observing it was the…
Aizawl: Heterosexual transmission through unsafe sex accounted for more than three-fourths of newly detected HIV infections in Aizawl district in 2025-26, with official data showing that 762 of the 1,005 new HIV-positive cases were acquired through heterosexual contact.Statistics presented at a meeting of the District AIDS Prevention and Control Committee (DAPCC) on Monday showed that…
File photo of Jangleshwar demolition drive in which 1,400 illegal dwellings were removed Rajkot: The city’s civic body will constitute an inquiry committee to investigate allegations of inflated expenditure on food, drinking water and other arrangements made during the Jangleshwar demolition drive carried out in Feb.Rajkot municipal commissioner Tushar Sumera told mediapersons on Monday that…
Ajmer/Jaipur: Notorious interstate Chambal dacoit Jagan Gurjar, 50, one of the most feared criminals across Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, was found murdered in his barrack at Rajasthan’s high-security jail in Ajmer Monday afternoon.Gurjar, a resident of Bhavutipura village under Sone Ka Gurja police station in Dholpur district, was found unresponsive around 3pm, when…
Ajay Rai put under house arrest ahead of Ayodhya visit (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday alleged that its Uttar Pradesh unit chief Ajay Rai was placed under house arrest a day before a high-level party delegation was scheduled to visit Ayodhya and offer prayers at the Ram Temple.The party claimed the action was…
A 10-year-old boy in Missouri has been charged with murder after a seven-month-old baby was shot in the head in a case that has shocked the US state and is believed to be the youngest murder prosecution in its history.The child, who cannot be named due to his age, was taken into custody on Friday…
