Varanasi: To tackle the growing menace of monkey attacks and reduce man-animal conflict, the forest department will develop a dedicated Kapi-Van outside the city, where simians will be provided with a natural habitat and fruit-bearing trees to ensure a steady food supply. The project, aimed at preventing monkeys from venturing into residential areas in search…
Ahmedabad: Maheshwari Dodiyar, 19, a native of Godhra, cannot see and hear and has very limited speech capabilities. Conventionally, she could have been seen as the proverbial ‘burden’ on her family. On the contrary, Maheshwari is shouldering the financial burden of her family of labourers. She earns Rs 14,000 per month working as a serving…
Tarn Taran: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) posted as in-charge of a police outpost in Tarn Taran died by suicide after allegedly shooting himself with his service pistol at his quarters Thursday late night following his checkpoint duty.Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Surendra Lamba said ASI Amarjit Singh was posted at Kairon police outpost for about…
Pune: A 54-year-old purchase manager working with a private company in Balewadi lost Rs11.66 lakh to cybercrooks after unknowingly downloading malicious APK files disguised as an RTO traffic challan and a piped gas bill.On June 18, the manager received a call from a person claiming to be from a customer care department, asking whether he…
Guwahati: Recurring petty thefts in areas under the Latasil police station continue to worry residents.Households in Barwari, Uzan Bazaar, Kali Bari Railway Colony and Lamb Road said thefts of copper wires, water taps, electricity and water meters, and motorcycles have become routine since the Covid-19 lockdown. Many residents have installed CCTV cameras and hired private…
Rajkot: Forest department officials have brought to justice a man who allegedly bludgeoned an eight-month-old lion cub to death near Junagadh, using intelligence inputs to swiftly track him down in Porbandar district.The cub’s carcass was found on Wednesday in the Rabari Ness area of the Dungar (South) range in the Junagadh forest division.Preliminary findings pointed…
Udaipur: Forty-six people fell ill after eating at a wedding ceremony in Kherki village Salumber district’s Parsad police station area Thursday evening. Two persons in critical condition were referred to Maharana Bhupal (MB) Hospital, and eight others were admitted to the Community Health Centre (CHC) in Parsad.According to information the guests attending a wedding began…
JAMMU: Alert Army troops Friday apprehended a PoK resident near LoC in Poonch district, sources said.“A man was seen moving suspiciously near a forward area along LoC and was promptly apprehended by alert Army troops during routine surveillance,” they said.“The individual has been identified Mohammed Sajad (25), son of Mohammed Rafiq, a resident of Abasspur…
Korean proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) A word seems like such a small, weightless thing. You say it, it disappears into the air, and that should be the end of it. An old Korean proverb warns that it is not nearly so simple. Words have no wings, it says, but they…
Sarah Jessica Parker opens up about her harsh childhood and living in poverty, and how it all helped her reach new heights of success ‘Sex and the City’ star Sarah Jessica Parker may be swimming in riches with a net worth of USD 200 million; however, that was not always the case for the star….
