Ahmedabad: Beginning tonight, many Amdavadis will spend Navratri following the beat from one commercial venue to another. Others will step out of their homes and find a full-scale celebration waiting within their society, complete with bands, decorators, caterers and crowds running into the thousands. Beyond these organised events, neighbourhood garba will bring the festival to…
The family of Jyoti Yadav holds on to her memory, while surviving on milk income from two cows; their village community in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district offers moral support. Jyoti Yadav, a 28-year-old PhD scholar in the department of microbiology at Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, died of electrocution on July 28, 2026 The family of Jyoti…
Bathinda: Uttar Pradesh caught up with Punjab in farm fire cases on Saturday, with both states recording 118 incidents each till Oct 10. Madhya Pradesh remained far ahead with 233 stubble-burning cases, almost double the count in Punjab.Punjab recorded nine farm fires on Saturday, against 39 in Madhya Pradesh, 10 in Uttar Pradesh and seven…
IMD data showed that the day’s maximum temperature at Shivajinagar was 4° above normal Pune: Shivajinagar on Saturday logged a maximum temperature of 35.9°C, making it the city’s hottest Oct day since 2003. The last time temperature was highest during the month was on Oct 7, 2002, when the station recorded 36.9°C.According to weather experts…
Surat: Two deputy mamlatdars were killed and a health worker survived after the car they were travelling in plunged into a river in Dang district on Saturday.The deceased are Sandip Damor and Shailesh Garashiya, both deputy mamlatdars. The health worker who survived was identified as Sonu Bariya.According to information available, the accident occurred at Daddha…
Silchar: A 20-year-old man was killed and another critically injured after their motorcycle lost control and rammed into an electric pole on Ashram Road in Hailakandi town on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Gaurav Balmiki (20), while the injured man was identified as Saidul Ahmed Choudhury.Sources said the motorcycle was travelling along Ashram Road…
Lucknow: A pattern-scanning retinal laser system and an Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) facility were inaugurated at Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) on Saturday, enabling faster diagnosis and treatment for patients with diabetic retinopathy.Institute director Prof C M Singh said a 2025 study conducted in parts of Lakhimpur Kheri and Shahjahanpur found…
Rajkot: Atkot police in rural Rajkot booked three persons for allegedly running an unlicensed moneylending business, making death threats and usurping agricultural land from a man after he failed to repay a loan on extortionate terms.The accused are Bhaghu Jebaliya and his sons, Pratapi and Raju, all residents of Santhali village in Jasdan taluka.According to…
Jaipur: Chief secretary V Srinivas will present an initial preview of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) Governance Index at an international public administration conference in Athens, Greece, from Oct 12-15, bringing the state’s administrative experience into global discussions on governance reforms.The proposed index, being developed under Srinivas’s leadership, aims to provide a global…
CHENNAI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi made his youth outreach programme ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ held at Chennai’s Island Grounds, the platform to take on PM Narendra Modi led govt over its attempts to bring the delimitation bill in the garb of women’s reservation, alleging that delimitation was a design to punish Tamil Nadu and reduce its…
