Gorakhpur: Police arrested former Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) Shalini Srivastava, prime accused in the Krishna Mohan Singh suicide case and absconding for nearly four months, from Delhi. The arrest was made by the Gulriha police with the help of surveillance teams, officials said on Wednesday.Shalini is being produced before the court for further legal proceedings….
Gandhinagar: Aimed at extending healthcare services to remote tribal settlements, the state government on Wednesday launched 51 two-wheeler mobile health units. Chief minister Bhupendra Patel also flagged off 9 mobile health vans that will operate in 14 districts, from an event held in Gandhinagar.The initiative of the state health department, aims to strengthen healthcare delivery…
Ludhiana: A sudden fire gutted a cotton shanty and destroyed two school buses in Haibowal’s Pavitar Nagar on Tuesday afternoon, triggering widespread panic. Fanned by strong winds, the blaze quickly spread from the slum workshop—where cotton was stored for quilts—to the parked vehicles.Bystanders successfully moved another bus and a car before the flames could consume…
Aside from distributing supplies, health workers educated residents on handwashing, safe food handling, sanitation, and the use of water-purifying tablets. Mohali: The Mohali health department has intensified field surveillance and preventive operations in parts of Dhakoli after detecting a few mild cases of diarrhoea. Acting on orders from deputy commissioner Komal Mittal, block rapid response…
Former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan from Congress Pune: Senior functionaries in the Congress and NCP (SP) in Maharashtra, who expressed fears that the BJP may attempt to split their parties, said none of their MPs or MLAs would defect.The opposition has claimed that the BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are executing ‘Operation Tiger’…
Guwahati: Researchers from IIT Guwahati have found a green way to clean toxic lead by developing a biological process that uses naturally occurring bacteria to extract lead from acidic industrial wastewater. Beyond battery recycling facilities, the developed process can be utilised for treating wastewater from mining, smelting and metallurgical industries, IIT Guwahati said on Wednesday.The…
Lucknow: A fresh western disturbance (WD) is likely to influence weather conditions across north India from Jun 18 and help the southwest monsoon resume its advance towards UP.On Wednesday night, the northern limit of monsoon was passing through Harnai and Solapur in Maharashtra, Hyderabad and Bhadrachalam in Telangana, Koraput and Phulbani in Odisha, Ranchi in…
Kota: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi waded Wednesday into India’s high-pressure exam culture, urging students in Rajasthan’s coaching hub Kota to dream beyond the familiar career script of engineer, doctor, lawyer, IAS or armed forces, while branding the education system a “rejection system” that breeds stress, despair and tragedy.Addressing more than 5,000 registered students at the…
An IAF helicopter carrying sealed NEET-UG retest question paper packets at the Armed Reserve Police Ground in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday. PTI Indian Air Force (IAF) has carried out nearly 200 sorties over the past three-four days to ferry question papers for the June 21 NEET-UG retest to 18 designated zones across the…
Pakistan hostages held by Somalian pirates Ten Pakistani crew members held hostage by Somali pirates aboard the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25 have appealed for urgent government intervention through a newly surfaced video, saying they have been in captivity for 57 days, face severe shortages of food and water, and need immediate help to…
