Palghar: A major explosion inside a makeshift firecracker manufacturing unit in Konsai village of Palghar’s Wada taluka killed one worker and left four others injured on Tuesday afternoon. One of the injured is critical. The firecracker unit had been operating illegally from an old farmhouse covered with a tin shed. Police have arrested three persons…
Chandigarh: Alongside its continuing battle against drug abuse, Punjab is grappling with high prevalence of HIV. At nearly 1.2% it has one of the highest HIV sero-positivity rates in the country, nearly three times the national average of 0.4%.According to health ministry’s 2025-26 report, over 3.5 crore tests were conducted under National AIDS Control Programme…
Panaji: A test for human papillomavirus (HPV) made at Verna has become the first Indian-made HPV test to meet international scientific benchmarks for cervical cancer screening.Every year, cervical cancer kills an estimated 80,000 Indian women. Globally, the disease claims more than 3,40,000 lives, with the overwhelming burden falling on countries that can least afford the…
Details of ration cards from the ration card management system (RCMS) portal of the food, civil supplies, and consumer affairs department can be directly accessed by citizens in their DigiLocker account Gandhinagar: The state govt said on Friday that 65% of its services are connected with DigiLocker, making digital governance simpler.An official statement said that…
Panaji: As Goa grapples with soaring summer temperatures, lemon prices in Panaji markets have surged sharply with vendors selling the citrus fruit at Rs 8 to Rs 10 per piece, depending on size.The spike in prices has been attributed to increasing demand, particularly for beverages and home remedies aimed at combating the heatwave-like conditions. Vendors…
Tom Brady, the quarterback who knows how to take down, turned the heat on at Kevin Hart’s roast. As the celebrities lined up on the panel and in the audience, the American athlete made a surprising appearance on Sunday night, dragging up the decade-old scandals onto the fresh grill. Tom Brady takes a scandalous dig…
Chennai: A 19-year-old burglary suspect, who escaped from the Neelankarai police station during interrogation, was recaptured by a special police team on Tuesday. The accused was arrested earlier in connection with a house burglary in Injambakkam along East Coast Road.Bicilin Ann Aldrin, 38, an electrician employed at a deemed university on Old Mahabalipuram Road, lived…
New Delhi: A Delhi High Court judge on Monday disapproved of the Delhi High Court Bar Association’s (DHCBA) decision to abstain from work, observing that such actions ultimately harm litigants.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, while addressing a proxy counsel appearing before him, questioned how lawyers “could abstain from work” and orally remarked that advocates “have to…
Police have detained 13 Bangladeshi nationals allegedly residing illegally here during a two-day verification drive conducted at slum settlements and construction sites across the district. Gurgaon: Thirteen Bangladeshi nationals who allegedly entered India illegally through the West Bengal border and spent the past few years working at construction sites across the NCR city have been…
Panaji: With the new Institute of Nursing Education having become operational last year at the Margao district hospital premises, Goa now has six nursing institutes offering a total of 340 seats.Until 2021, Goa had only two such institutes—the state nursing college at Bambolim, Tiswadi, offering 110 seats in the BSc nursing programme, and the Vrundavan…
