Big dreams, small grants; City’s sports talent starved | Ludhiana News

Ludhiana: In a bid to promote sports, Ludhiana district administration has established 24 sports nurseries across the city with facilities for volleyball, athletics, boxing, hockey, cycling, archery, gymnastics, basketball and other games.Coaches were also appointed to nurture talent in urban and rural areas. However, cash crunch may make it very difficult, if not impossible, to…

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Magisterial probe ordered into Rohru celebratory firing death | Chandigarh News

Shimla: The Shimla district magistrate, Anupam Kashyap, has ordered a magisterial inquiry into a 26-year-old woman’s death due to celebratory firing during a religious function at Kulgaon village in Shimla’s Rohru subdivision on Sunday night.Additional district magistrate (law and order) Pankaj Sharma has been appointed as the inquiry officer. He has been directed to conduct…

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Class 12 results: Science pass rate jumps to 89.79%; arts, commerce dip | Guwahati News

Guwahati: Assam Class 12 board results announced Tuesday showed a five-percentage-point rise in the science pass rate, while arts and commerce recorded slight declines.Science improved from 84.88% last year to 89.79%. Commerce slipped from 82.18% in 2025 to 81.13%, and arts fell from 81.03% to 79.54%. In the vocational stream, 74.19% of students passed.The Assam…

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Contractual clerk at state university caught taking ₹50,000 bribe | Lucknow News

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Establishment on Tuesday arrested a contractual clerk at Maharaja Suhel Dev University, Azamgarh, for accepting a ₹50,000 bribe at the registrar’s office.According to officials, Surendra Singh, manager of Ram Badhan Singh Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Raunapar (Kadipur), Azamgarh, had approached the vigilance authorities alleging that a bribe of ₹3 lakh was…

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Raj’s vaccine turnaround: Bharatpur, Alwar and Deeg cross state average | Jaipur News

Jaipur: Three districts once flagged for low vaccine uptake—Alwar, Bharatpur and Deeg—have recorded significant gains in full immunisation coverage, marking a turnaround in areas long affected by resistance and misinformation, health officials said Tuesday during World Immunisation Week (April 24–30).The improvement follows an intensified drive targeting “uncovered” pockets after Deeg reported seven child deaths due…

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Diljit Dosanjh recalls Komagata Maru incident on ‘The Tonight Show’: ‘They didn’t let us in, now 55,000 cheer for us’ |

After appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in June 2024, popular Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh returned to the American late-night talk show on April 27, 2026. He not only promoted his recent album ‘Aura’ and its North American tour, but also taught Jimmy Fallon a few bhangra moves. Diljit Dosanjh teaches Bhangra to…

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