Varanasi: Around 345 bottles of codeine cough syrup were found in a sack floating in the river Ganga near Chandravati village under the Chaubeypur police station area early Wednesday.Boatmen who pulled the sack out of the river alerted the police after discovering the bottles.Police reached the spot after receiving information, seized the bottles and initiated…
Patiala: The Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (HBCH&RC), Punjab, launched a district-wide School Health Programme in Sangrur to create awareness among adolescents about cancer prevention, healthy lifestyle practices, and the harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol and substance abuse.The programme will cover 145 senior secondary govt and 150 private schools for students of Class…
Contaminated water supply in parts of Wadgaonsheri constituency has residents on the edge Pune: Doctors have sounded the alarm as the city records a sharp rise in gastroenteritis and typhoid cases, citing sewage-contaminated drinking water and unhygienic food as the primary culprits. Clinicians reported a drastic surge in outpatient department (OPD) visits for symptoms related…
Guwahati: Around 2,100 illegal foreign nationals have been deported, sent back or expelled from Assam over the past decade, the state govt informed the assembly on Wednesday. Of them, 2,023 were sent to Bangladesh, while others were repatriated to Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine and a few African countries.Replying to a question from Congress MLA Abdur…
Mahoba Police have detained an 80-year-old man for the murder of a temple priest LUCKNOW: Mahoba Police have solved the murder of a Hanuman temple priest within days of the incident, arresting an 80-year-old man who allegedly killed the priest to falsely implicate his long-time rivals in a murder case.The accused, Kallu Jogi (80), a…
JMC’s encroachment drive Wednesday Jaipur: The Jaipur Municipal Corporation’s (JMC) vigilance branch carried out a drive against encroachments at several locations across the city Wednesday. Authorities seized four truckloads of goods and collected Rs 2,000 as carrying charges from violators.The drive covered Shiv Residency in Narayan Vihar, Swarnpath in Mansarovar, 7 Number Puliya on Mahal…
NEW DELHI: The Central armed police forces (CAPFs) have planted nearly 6.7 crore saplings in the last five years as part of a countrywide plantation drive, the home ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to a written question, shared that the seven CAPFs — CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP,…
The man had previously been charged with rape and sodomy of a drugged victim. An illegal immigrant working as an agricultural labourer in Southern California has been arrested after US border authorities said he had previously faced multiple serious criminal charges, including rape and sodomy of a drugged victim.US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) El…
India’s favourite summer delicacy has just crossed a new milestone. A 12.5-tonne shipment of Dashehari and Langra mangoes from Uttar Pradesh has reached Dubai by sea after a 25-day journey, with nearly 90% of the fruit remaining market-ready. The successful shipment could pave the way for cheaper and larger exports of Indian mangoes.The journey was…
Archana Puran Singh’s first television outing, Mr Ya Mrs, aired on Doordarshan in 1987 and turned out to be strangely prophetic. Directed by Jalal Agha, the show centred on a working woman married to a house husband, played by Jayant Kripalani. Just a year later, Archana met actor Parmeet Sethi, whom she married in 1992….
