Farmers block a road in Mysuru as they protest CWRC’s Cauvery water-release order Mysuru/Bengaluru: Farmer groups and pro-Kannada organisations staged protests across the Cauvery basin Wednesday, declaring Karnataka could not spare even a drop of water for Tamil Nadu after the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) directed the state to release 3,500 cusecs daily for…
Hyderabad: The Telangana unit of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday said it will now shift its focus to education reforms in the state after the conclusion of its 36-day nationwide student and youth movement.CJP Telangana representative Vijay Mallangi said the demands include improving infrastructure and facilities in govt schools, increasing the education budget…
Gurgaon: A 33-year-old former private airline pilot was arrested with 814 grams of MDMA, a synthetic narcotic valued at around Rs 35 lakh in the illegal market, during a Crime Branch operation near Sector 103 on Tuesday.The accused, Arshad Ali, alias Ajju, was a resident of Landmark Society in Daulatabad and was arrested by the…
Mullick ghat flower market in Kolkata. Pix:- Biplab Bhattacharjee Kolkata: The govt is planning to refurbish and rename Mullick Ghat flower market, under Howrah bridge off Strand Road, state minister of IT, science and technology, and biotechnology Kalyan Chakrabarti said on Wednesday. The redevelopment of the market will also focus on disposal and recycling of…
Margao: Luiza Fernandes, who had eluded Margao police for six days after the abduction of her husband Sanjeel Kudchadkar, was arrested on Wednesday. She was traced to Karwar and brought to Margao, where she was formally taken into custody.Police said Fernandes had been admitted to a civil hospital in Karwar and was kept under watch….
CM Yogi inaugurates BJP’s kalash yatra in Kashi Varanasi: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is fulfilling Sant Ravidas’s 650-year-old message of equality, social harmony and a caste-less society by ensuring development of all without discrimination.“The dream of an egalitarian society that Sant Ravidas had envisioned is being realised under…
Ahmedabad: For many Indians deported from the United States, returning home does not mark the end of their legal troubles. Instead, some face prosecution in India for allegedly using forged or fraudulently obtained passports to travel abroad or return after deportation.The latest case involves a 51-year-old man from Mehsana who was arrested at Delhi’s Indira…
Amritsar: Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the recurring controversies surrounding recruitment and competitive examinations in Punjab, saying the repeated irregularities have severely undermined the confidence of the state’s youth in the fairness of the recruitment process. In a statement issued here on…
An AI-generated illustration of cyberfraud. Pune: A retired officer (72) of a prominent central govt financial institution lodged a complaint on Wednesday evening with the Pune cyber police, stating that cybercriminals threatened to arrest him in a money-laundering case digitally and cheated him of Rs 1 crore.According to the police, the fraud took place between…
Guwahati: The Assam assembly’s budget session was adjourned sine die on Wednesday, two days ahead of schedule, following flooding in the state. Originally scheduled to end on July 31 after beginning on July 6, the session was curtailed to allow MLAs to return to their constituencies and supervise relief and rehabilitation works, reports Kangkan Kalita….
