Faridabad reports more than 300 dog bite cases per day Gurgaon: A 10-year-old boy was mauled by a pack of stray dogs in the basement of a housing society in Faridabad’s Sector 70 on Tuesday evening.The Class 5 student was riding his bicycle in Mulberry County when the chain slipped off. As he sat down…
Kolkata: The under-construction structure, which collapsed on Transport Depot Road near Taratala on Wednesday, was coming up on a plot, leased by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, to Behera Brothers for a warehouse and cold storage facility.Sanjoy Kumar Mukherjee, public relations officer of SMPK, said the plot, measuring around 72,000 sq ft, was leased to…
Noida: Nine years on, when a consumer panel ordered an insurance compensation to a Badaun farmer, two words became his saviour — bread earner.Kailash Chandra, whose earning wife died in an accident in 2017, ran from pillar to post to claim the insurance compensation of Rs 5 lakh, as promised under a govt scheme, before…
Margao: A delegation of scheduled tribe MLAs, ministers, and leaders called on chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday, pressing him to vigorously pursue the demand for political reservation of STs in Goa and ensure the process is completed before the 2027 assembly elections.The delegation comprised assembly speaker Ganesh Gaonkar, tribal welfare minister Ramesh Tawadkar, MLAs…
Ahmedabad: Southwest monsoon has arrived in Gujarat, about a week behind its usual June 15 onset date.Conditions, however, are favourable for the monsoon’s progress in the state over the next two to three days, said Met department officials.Gujarat currently has two weather systems in the form of troughs, one from the southeastern Rajasthan to the…
Chandigarh: The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Punjab will begin on Thursday with a month-long house-to-house enumeration exercise, with Punjab chief electoral officer (CEO) Anindita Mitra assuring that no eligible voter would be left out of the process.Addressing a press conference, Mitra said, “During the first phase, BLOs will visit every household…
Several parts of the city faced intermittent electricity interruptions due to showers Pune: Heavy rainfall on Wednesday morning led to prolonged power outage lasting nearly four to five hours in Kondhwa, while parts of the city faced intermittent electricity interruptions due to the Tuesday showers.The result was disrupted daily routines and work schedules.Resident of Kondhwa’s…
Silchar: A truck driver, believed to be from Punjab, was killed in a suspected hit-and-run on the Silchar-Haflong national highway at Madhurapul on Tuesday night, police said.The man’s bloodstained body was found beside the highway by local residents, who alerted police. A team reached the spot, recovered the body, and sent it to Silchar Medical…
Lucknow: In the wake of the deadly fire incident in Aliganj, the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Wednesday has made it mandatory for all the building owners to submit a notarised fire safety affidavit before obtaining approval for building plans.So far, a no objection certificate (NOC) from the fire safety department for map approval was…
Jaipur: Rajasthan police registered 224 FIRs between Jan 2022 and Dec 2025 in connection with alleged derogatory comments, posts, depictions and content targeting the Hindu religion, deities, religious texts and beliefs on social media, digital platforms and public forums, according to information tabled in the state assembly Tuesday.Replying to an unstarred question raised by Chhabra…
