Panaji: Goa Human Rights Commission recommended that the insurance medical officer of ESI Hospital, Margao, refund Rs 4.8 lakh to retired multi-tasking staff member Teotonio Jose Maria Pereira, deducted from his gratuity after a pay fixation review.The commission directed the amount be refunded within 60 days, failing which it will attract 8% interest from the…
Varanasi: Preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Varanasi were completed on Monday with a final security briefing and fleet rehearsal. Police and paramilitary forces reviewed the plan in the presence of SPG officials.An unprecedented force of over 1,500 women personnel will stand guard at Modi’s all-woman public meeting in his parliamentary constituency….
On Monday, the city experienced the second consecutive day of heat over 44°C, as the maximum temperature touched 44.2°C, 2.6 degrees higher than normal. On Sunday, the maximum temperature rose to 44.8°C, giving Ahmedabad its third hottest April day since records began.On Monday, the city did not get any respite during night hours, either, as…
Ludhiana: Amid a rapid and sharp rise in temperatures over the past several days, cases of sunstroke among children are being reported in hospitals. On Monday, one such patient was brought to the Civil Hospital.A pediatrician at the Civil Hospital, Dr Jaspreet Singh, said the child had been exposed to the sun after going out…
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh public works and urban development minister Vikramaditya Singh on Monday announced that hydraulic parking facilities would soon be developed in Shimla to ease traffic congestion and improve parking availability.The project, part of a comprehensive urban development plan worth Rs 1,200 crore, will be implemented at around 15 identified locations across the capital…
Guwahati: Gauhati high court has designated additional advocate general of Assam, Parangam Narayan Goswami, as a senior advocate, marking a significant milestone in his legal career.Goswami, who began practice in 2002, has handled a wide range of criminal and civil cases in both Gauhati HC and Supreme Court.Over the years, he has served as senior…
Lucknow: Around 327Kg ganja (contraband) being smuggled from Nepal into India was seized in UP’s Maharajganj on Monday after a joint team of SSB and excise department intercepted a truck following a brief chase on the Indo-Nepal border. The accused truck driver has been arrested.The seizure was made in the Thoothibari-Sonauli border belt following intelligence…
Jaisalmer: A man in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district died by suicide Sunday, a day after filing a police complaint alleging sexual harassment of his minor daughter, police said.The man, a resident of the Lathi police station area, lodged the report on Saturday night, accusing a boy from the village of sexually harassing his daughter for some…
Violence erupts in Jagaddal ahead of PM Modi’s visit: BJP-TMC clashes, bombing at MLA’s residence leave 3 injured Kolkata: Hours before PM Modi addressed a rally at Jagaddal in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Monday, clashes broke out barely 400m from the venue between TMC and BJP workers, which escalated into gunfire, stone pelting…
Court life in 17th-century France under royal authority. Imagine a world where the most powerful people in the country are quietly terrified of their dinner plates. Where a wealthy nobleman dies suddenly and nobody quite believes it was natural causes. Where the woman who sells perfume on the corner might also be selling something far…
