Lucknow: After becoming the first team to qualify for the playoffs, Meerut Mavericks will be without the services of leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari, the Purple Cap holder.Zeeshan Ansari leads the wicket-taking charts with 17 wickets in seven innings and has helped Meerut Mavericks win seven straight matches without losing a single game in the UPT20 League…
Silchar: The video of a woman being harassed and humiliated on a train in Assam has taken the social media by storm, with netizens condemning the atrocity and seeking justice.The victim, identified as Samsad Begum Choudhury, was travelling on the Silchar-Delhi railway route on Saturday when the incident took place.Fellow passengers, who documented the ordeal…
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee had sought a 15-day extension for the draft roll publication and submitted a letter to the CEO before the ECI announcement Pune: Election Commission of India has pushed the publication of the draft electoral roll in Maharashtra by a week from Aug 24 to Aug 31 and the final roll to…
Two more deaths in Sivasagar pushed Assam’s flood toll to 80 on Friday, even as more than 2.12 lakh people across eight districts continued to grapple with the deluge.The latest figures mark an improvement from the previous day’s situation, when the flood toll stood at 78, over 3 lakh people across seven districts were affected,…
JAMMU: A 29-year-old soldier died allegedly by suicide at an Army camp in Nagrota, on the outskirts of Jammu, early Monday, officials said.Police said Abhijit Nandan was found hanging at his place of posting. Authorities took him to the military hospital in Satwari, where doctors declared him dead. The body was later shifted to Jammu…
LUCKNOW: In a joint operation, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Goa Police arrested a Bahraich-based alleged drug trafficker wanted in a narcotics case registered by Goa’s Crime Branch. The accused, identified as Ekhlaq Ahmad alias Manna Malik, was apprehended from Bahraich district on Saturday. According to STF officials, Ekhlaq Ahmad, son of…
COIMBATORE: Around 25% of memoranda of understanding (MoUs) signed in the past have not been implemented on the ground and remain only on paper, Tamil Nadu minister for industries and investment promotion S Keerthana said on Friday, asserting that the state is taking steps to ensure youth get jobs in their own cities such as…
Gorakhpur: Once regarded most backward part of Gorakhpur because of poor road connectivity, the district’s southern belt is witnessing a major infrastructure transformation under Yogi Adityanath govt. Public Works Department is carrying out widening and strengthening works on nine key roads spanning more than 118 km at a cost exceeding Rs 445 crore.The road projects…
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday asserted that not a single recruitment examination paper had leaked in Punjab during the tenure of the AAP govt led by chief minister Bhagwant Mann.AAP state media in-charge Baltej Pannu said the Congress and the BJP were “deliberately twisting facts”. “The incident reported in Faridkot was not…
Chandigarh: The UT engineering department will spend nearly Rs 1 crore to fill plantation gaps along five city roads. The horticulture wing has floated a tender worth over Rs 95 lakh for planting shrubs and trees, along with installing tree guards, on Purv Marg, Dakshin Marg, Vikas Marg, Route No. 2 (NH‑21), and Paschim Marg….
