Ahmedabad: A 20-day-old baby monkey, apparently distressed after being separated from its mother, was rescued from a commercial complex near Ahmedabad Civil Hospital after it was found screeching.Locals alerted animal rescuers after noticing the distressed monkey. “When I got the call, locals around the hospital told me the monkey was found screeching as it was…
Narnaul: A 36-year-old Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) personnel was killed after being hit by a freight train on the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) line near New Ateli railway station on Monday.RPSF is a wing of the RPF.The deceased, Preetam Singh of Jhal village in Rewari district, was posted in Hooghly, West Bengal. He had…
Pune: Narayan Peth resident Vidyanand Bapat on Tuesday reiterated his call to ban loudspeakers during Ganesh festival, saying amplified sound was not essential to the century-old celebration, a day after PMC officials escorted him out of a Pune Municipal Corporation meeting for raising the same demand.On Monday, Bapat’s demand at a special PMC meeting on…
Prof Mihir K. Purkait (R), Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati & Mr. Mukesh Bharti, Research Scholar, IIT Guwahati Guwahati: People in districts with arsenic and fluoride-contaminated groundwater can now access safer drinking water through a low-cost IIT-Guwahati technology.Researchers have developed a rotating-anode electrocoagulation (RA-EC) reactor that can remove up to 98.2% of arsenate and…
Lucknow: Hospitals empanelled under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in UP will face graded penalties for illegally charging beneficiaries, raising bills without providing treatment and other violations, with action becoming progressively stricter for repeat offences.Informing this on Tuesday, deputy CM Brajesh Pathak said, “Despite orders directing to strictly follow and repeated advisories,…
Jaisalmer: Sriganganagar police and cyber police arrested a City Union Bank assistant manager and another person Tuesday in connection with a cyber fraud case involving Rs 17.71 lakh.Superintendent of police Hari Shankar said the Cyber police arrested bank assistant manager Shubham Farkya and Subhanshu Thakaria on a complaint filed by Mukesh Kumar of Gharsana.Police said…
This was new information for SC, which was concerned by pendency of 37 lakh appeals NEW DELHI: In a new twist to the simmering controversy over the West Bengal SIR, Supreme Court was informed Tuesday that against 27-lakh odd deletions from voters’ list because of ‘logical discrepancy’ only seven lakh filed appeals seeking inclusion of…
Visa appointment schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the training The US has paused visa appointments for applicants around the world as the Trump administration launches a global training programme for consular officers amid its broader immigration crackdown.A US State Department spokesperson said on Tuesday that the department had begun a training initiative at all…
Headline CPI inflation increased marginally in July. MUMBAI: The Indian economy remains resilient despite external headwinds, but below-normal monsoon prospects, higher crude oil prices, geopolitical tensions and global trade uncertainty pose risks to growth and inflation, according to the State of the Economy article in RBI’s Aug bulletin.The assessment also pointed to firm domestic demand,…
‘Irumudi’ box office collection day 5_ Ravi Teja starrer. Ravi Teja‘s ‘Irumudi’ remained steady at the box office on its fifth day. The Telugu action drama registered only a marginal decline in earnings compared with Monday. The film continued to collect more than Rs 12 crore on its first Tuesday.According to Sacnilk, ‘Irumudi’ earned an…
