Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday called for improving Goa’s credit-deposit (CD) ratio and strengthening financial literacy, especially among educated professionals, while praising banks for achieving 91% of their annual credit distribution target.Addressing the 133rd State Level Bankers’ Committee meeting, Sawant said Goa’s CD ratio improved from 34.17% in Dec 2025 to 34.62% in…
Varanasi: In a swift judgment delivered within three years, the court of Special Judge (Pocso Act), Nitin Pandey, on Wednesday convicted a man in a case involving the gang rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The cases of the two other accused were transferred to the Juvenile Justice…
TNNGandhinagar: The state govt on Thursday extended the deadline for purchase of wheat at support prices from May 15 to June 15. A Gujarat State Civil Supplies Corporation statement said that the deadline has been extended until June 15 so that maximum number of farmers can avail the opportunity to sell their wheat at support…
Batala: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday described enactment of the state govt’s latest anti-sacrilege legislation as a “service” entrusted to him by “Guru Sahib himself”.Speaking during an anti-drug awareness programme at Sachkhand Nanak Dham, Mann termed the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Amendment Act, 2026 a “historic law”.“I am nobody to…
Pune: The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested a woman assistant police inspector attached to the Bavdhan police on the charge of demanding a bribe of Rs50,000 for not arresting the complainant’s wife in a cheating case registered against them. The API had already taken a bribe of Rs50,000 in March this year and…
Police intensified combing and patrolling operations in the area Surat: A 26-year-old man was stabbed to death in Limbayat on Wednesday, the second murder in the area in four days, prompting police to intensify patrolling and detain three suspects.According to police, Ashifkhan Pathan (26), was attacked after a quarrel with Kalimuddin Shaikh, Shehzad Siddiqui and…
Shillong: Meghalaya Police confiscated a whopping 30,000 explosive detonators from a Silchar-bound vehicle near the Meghalaya-Assam inter-state boundary at Umkiang, East Jaintia Hills district and arrested two persons on Wednesday.“A thorough search of the vehicle led to the detection and recovery of 30,000 numbers of explosive detonators. The explosive detonators were concealed inside two carton…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh finance and parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Kumar Khanna on Thursday cycled from his official residence at 10, Kalidas Marg to his office at the state assembly, endorsing PM Narendra Modi’s appeal to reduce fuel consumption and chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s call for austerity and energy conservation.Khanna said he would use a bicycle…
Rajkot: The detection of crime branch (DCB) sleuths arrested three persons, including two ‘journalists’, in connection with an extortion case on Thursday.According to the complaint filed by Vijay Padaliya with crime branch, he had bought a plot on University Road in Rajkot, where a building was later built and a hospital run by his daughter…
Jhunjhunu: Politics in Jhunjhunu district intensified after the administration demolished alleged encroachments at the Rajiv Gandhi Sports Stadium in Parsarampura village of Nawalgarh, acting on Rajasthan High Court orders. The stadium’s boundary wall was removed using heavy machines, which authorities said had been constructed in a river flow zone.The action, carried out Wednesday amid heavy…
