Panaji: Goa has recorded its driest monsoon season in five decades, with the state receiving only around 80 inches of rainfall between June 1 and Sept 30 against the seasonal average of nearly 118 inches, resulting in a deficit of about 32%. The deficit is the highest recorded in the state since 2010 and marks…
Man Arrested Issues Fake Teacher Appointment Letter for Rs 2.30 Lakh Caught in Azamgarh Varanasi: Mehnajpur police in Azamgarh district on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly duping a job aspirant of Rs 2.30 lakh on the promise of securing him a job as an assistant teacher and issuing a forged appointment letter.According to Azamgarh…
Ahmedabad: Stepping up safety checks ahead of the upcoming auspicious festival of Diwali, the estate department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Central Zone sealed 30 illegal firecracker shops along the busy stretch from Kalupur Darwaza to Kalupur Tower in the Old City area on Wednesday.Aggrieved shopkeepers have been given a strict deadline of three days…
SAD functionary Bikram Singh Majithia Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal functionary and former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia and convicted former Punjab Police DSP Jagdish Singh Bhola have been summoned by a special investigation team (SIT) for questioning in Patiala on Oct 5 in connection with the drug case registered against Majithia in 2021, sources said.The…
Pune: More than 150 students and professionals gathered at the Dr BR Ambedkar statue near the collector’s office on Wednesday to stand in solidarity with those fighting for women’s rights in New Delhi.For 26-year-old Aishwarya Adhav, Pune was a safe haven till about two to three years ago. “I remember a time when my college…
Surat: Two days before a planned protest by textile embroidery workers, the deputy labour commissioner’s office directed embroidery unit owners to implement the four labour codes that replaced 29 earlier labour laws, bringing workers’ demands back into focus.In a circular issued on Tuesday, the office instructed the Textile Embroidery Jobwork Association of Surat (TEJAS) and…
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday sought to dispel public misconceptions over the hydrological impact of upstream Chinese mega-projects, saying installed power generation capacity in megawatts (MW) does not correlate directly to water storage volume.Khandu said India’s proposed 11,000-MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) holds larger live storage capacity than China’s massive…
A water colour sketch of the New OPD Building at SGPGI (for representational purposes) Lucknow: A man was caught at SGPGI’s new OPD building on Wednesday, attempting to dupe an elderly woman of her jewellery by misinforming her that a doctor had called her in for a knee examination.A security guard noticed the woman removing…
Thakar’s son, Umesh, said his father had been admitted to a private hospital in Rajkot after falling ill Rajkot: A serious lapse in the identification and handover of bodies has come to light at Rajkot Civil Hospital, where the body of 92-year-old retired teacher Harsukhlal Thakar was mistakenly handed over to another family and cremated.Thakar’s…
Udaipur: A court here Wednesday extended the police custody of SOG ASP Mukesh Kumar Soni and alleged middleman Sajjan Singh Jain by three days in a Rs 2-crore bribery case linked to Udaipur’s 272-plot scam.Both accused were produced in the court after their earlier three-day remand ended. ACB sought further custody, saying several important facts…
