Ahmedabad: Amdavadis voted on Sunday to elect 190 corporators to the state’s largest municipal corporation, recording a voter turnout of 45.7% in 45°C heat. The 2021 turnout for civic body polls was 42.5%.No major law and order issues were reported, though Congress and BJP workers briefly clashed at a polling station in Kubernagar ward and…
Ludhiana: A six-year bureaucratic stalemate that has left one of Punjab’s largest dairy hubs drowning in animal waste may finally be nearing an end, following a fresh land-sharing agreement between state agencies.The deal aims to revive a long-delayed compressed biogas (CBG) plant at the Tajpur Road dairy complex to stop the flow of raw effluent…
Bathinda: More than 48 hours after a local trader allegedly died by suicide, his family on Sunday refused to allow the post-mortem till the name of a police officer and another person were added to the abetment-to-suicide FIR.Sandeep Kumar (32), a building materials dealer, allegedly consumed poison on April 24. Before his death, he recorded…
Pune: Seven roads, chock-a-block with traffic, all converge at Omkar Garden Chowk underpass in Bavdhan.Further compounding matters are the absence of a traffic signal and little to no police presence at the spot on several days. All these factors create a recipe for extreme chaos and undue stress to motorists heading to work or home…
Surat: With the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) elections recorded a significant rise in voter turnout, even as the number of voters declined sharply due to deletions in the list.The provisional turnout stood at 59.32%, nearly 12% higher than the 47.14% recorded in the 2021 elections. However, the…
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu on Sunday called on defence minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi.In a post on X, Khandu wrote, “Always a privilege and a humbling experience to call on Hon Defence Minister Shri@rajnathsingh ji.”The CM said he sought continued support for strengthening critical infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh.Khandu also said he discussed…
Lucknow: Panchayati Raj minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Saturday accused the Samajwadi Party of attempting to vitiate the atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh over the Kataria village incident in Ghazipur.He asserted that a girl’s death should not be politicised and added that the state govt had already extended financial aid and housing support to the bereaved…
Rajkot: Four children drowned in Bakhavad lake in Jasdan taluka of Rajkot district on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Ramu Rathod (14), Kalu Rathod (10), Rajveer Rathod (15), and Kishan Rathod (15).ASP Naveen Chakravarthy Repudi of Jasdan division told TOI, “Bodies of all four children have been recovered from the lake. The preliminary…
Local protest after an 8 year old girl was crushed by a bus in Bharatpur Jaipur: An eight-year-old girl was crushed to death by a speeding roadways bus in Bharatpur’s Nadbai area on Sunday morning, police said.Police identified the deceased as Arika, 8, a resident of the Tikri area in Deeg district.According to police, the…
Arvind Kejriwal (File photo) NEW DELHI: Getting to know that his party’s MPs in Rajya Sabha could break away to join BJP only towards the end, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal made last-ditch efforts to salvage the situation by reaching out to most of them, but it proved a case of too little too late.That Sandeep…
