Varanasi: Urban development and energy minister AK Sharma on Monday suspended Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (Urban) executive engineer Pawan Kumar Gupta after negligence was found in the operation of pumps at the Chowkaghat Sewage Pumping Station and Goithaha Sewage Treatment Plant in Varanasi. The pumps at both facilities were kept shut on Sept 3 and…
Gujarat University Building Ahmedabad: Gujarat University (GU) has received 2,142 completed applications for PhD admissions for the 2026-27 academic year, with 1,134 candidates set to appear for the entrance test scheduled on Sept 26. The university recorded 2,586 registrations during the admission process, of which 2,142 applicants completed and submitted their forms.The university began accepting…
Chandigarh: Punjab Police have registered 60,582 FIRs and arrested 79,784 drug smugglers, including 708 “big fish” in 354 commercial-scale cases, since the launch of the ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ campaign, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav said Monday.Addressing a press conference with chief minister Bhagwant Mann, Yadav said that between Mar 1, 2025 and Sep 10, 2026, police…
Pune: Online fraudsters allegedly cheated a techie (53) of Rs43.73 lakh by promising him handsome returns on his investment through online share trading.The techie, a resident of Sinhagad Road, lodged a complaint with the Sinhagad Road police on Sunday, stating he was cheated between July and Aug.According to the police, the fraudsters added the techie’s…
Dhubri: The ‘adya shraddha’ rituals of Riya Talukdar Goswami were halted midway at her in-laws’ residence in Ward 10 of Gauripur town on Monday after news of her husband Ramanuj Goswami’s death emerged.Ramanuj’s father, Tarun Kumar Goswami, a retired govt employee, said the family was under severe stress following the deaths of Riya and Ramanuj.“I…
Lucknow: Police in Rae Bareli district have arrested three people in connection with the murder of a village head’s son, after a purported video surfaced in which the main accused claims he was earlier told by police to “kill him” over an alleged harassment complaint involving his wife.The video, said to be recorded at the…
Jaipur: Vote counting in 10 booths across Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota municipal corporations and Suket municipality in Kota district was disrupted Monday after EVMs malfunctioned and the votes recorded on them could not be retrieved, forcing the State Election Commission to order a repoll.The repoll will be held from 7am to 6pm on Sept 16….
NEW DELHI: Flagging the issue of prosecuting agencies filing voluminous evidence and naming large number of witnesses in corruption cases, Supreme Court disapproved of the practice, saying it leads to protracted hearing and long pendency.While acquitting a person in a 33-year-old corruption case on the ground that CBI failed to prove that he received pecuniary…
The Panama-flagged vessel was also struck on Sunday (Representative image: AP). The US military on Monday rejected a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that an oil tanker collided with a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, the Panama-flagged vessel was…
Discarded fruit peels could help recover valuable materials from used lithium-ion batteries at a pilot recycling plant in Singapore. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) developed a process that uses waste from oranges, lemons and pineapples to dissolve battery material and extract metals needed for new batteries. The facility, operating near Pioneer since late 2022,…
