Gorakhpur: A 25-year-old man who jumped into the Rapti river was rescued by personnel of the 26th Battalion PAC’s flood relief team in Gorakhpur on Sunday morning.Resident of West Champaran district in Bihar, Laddu Manjhi leapt into the river near Ramghat in the GIDA police station area around 9 am. Witnesses said he began drowning…
India’s water-security challenge needs to be addressed through a combination of policy reforms, technology, sustainable finance and community participation, experts said at a two-day national conclave on water management that concluded in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Ahmedabad: India’s water-security challenge needs to be addressed through a combination of policy reforms, technology, sustainable finance and community participation,…
The current vacancy figure shows an improvement over the previous academic year, when approximately 250 seats remained vacant. Ludhiana: A total of 200 seats out of 1,000 remain vacant at the Senior Secondary Residential Meritorious School in Ludhiana, even after the completion of the final round of counselling in the first week of August.The institution…
Former diplomat Navdeep Suri Chandigarh: Amid the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) in Punjab, former diplomat Navdeep Suri on Sunday said he faced trouble establishing his citizenship after representing India in three countries.A resident of Amritsar, Suri took to X on Sunday, tagging Election Commission and putting out a series of posts about being told…
Pune: The 14-year-old daughter of NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar’s personal assistant, who had been missing since Saturday night, was found dead near a building drain in a town in the district on Sunday morning.Additional superintendent of police (Baramati division) Ganesh Biradar told TOI, “It was a case of suicide. The girl allegedly jumped from…
Surat: A 27-year-old dentist has lodged a police complaint against her neighbour, accusing him of stalking and harassing her.The woman, who works at a private hospital in Singanpor, said the incident occurred at around 8.30pm on Saturday after she left work. According to her complaint, she was standing outside a medical store when the accused…
Aizawl: The Tlabung branch of the Young Mizo Association (YMA) in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district, bordering Bangladesh, has rejected a recent claim by a former West Tuipui legislator that Tlabung was historically a “homeland” of the Chakma people and formed part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts before being brought under British administration in the Lushai…
Six men were arrested with swords in two separate police actions in Madurai in the past two days. Lucknow: Directorate of Narcotics Control (DNC), Lucknow, operating under Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), seized 356 grams of heroin valued at about Rs 1.5 crore in the international market and arrested one person during an anti-drug operation,…
Rajkot: Acting on intelligence inputs about preparation and sale of synthetic milk, the Rajkot Range police team raided the premises of six traders and nearby dairies in Haripar village of Kalavad taluka in Jamnagar district and seized 7,150 litres of suspected adulterated milk.The operation also led to the seizure of 120kg of vanaspati ghee and…
Jaipur: Rajasthan Govt Health Scheme has flagged 479 suspected cases in which private hospitals allegedly split diagnostic claims to bypass mandatory pre-authorisation for OPD tests costing more than Rs 2,000.The cases, detected through one month of data analysis, are linked to 238 beneficiaries. Around 50 private hospitals and 60 doctors across Rajasthan are now under…
