Margao: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Monday pledged to secure political reservation for Scheduled Tribes in the state legislature ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.Sawant made the commitment while addressing a gathering of tribals at the ‘Prerana Din’ function in Quepem, organised in memory of Dilip Velip and Mangesh Gaonkar, who laid down their lives…
Varanasi: As the scorching nine-day period of ‘Nautapa’ commenced on Monday with temperatures soaring across eastern Uttar Pradesh, devotees at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham sought spiritual solace amid the blazing heat by offering cooling fruit juice abhishek to Bhagwan Shri Vishweshwar.Varanasi reeled under intense heatwave conditions as the mercury touched 44.9 degrees Celsius — 4.1…
Ahmedabad: Fuel prices were raised for the fourth time in just 11 days on Monday, pushing petrol rates in Ahmedabad beyond the Rs 100-per-litre threshold. State-run oil marketing companies revised retail fuel prices with effect from 6am on May 25. Petrol prices in Ahmedabad rose by Rs 2.60 per litre from Rs 99.23 to Rs…
Police teams checked 4,932 vehicles across Panchkula during the week-long enforcement drive Panchkula: Panchkula police have issued 1,299 challans in a week-long crackdown on vehicles plying without number plates or with tampered registration plates, as part of a special enforcement drive from May 18 to May 24.During the campaign, police teams checked 4,932 vehicles across…
NCp (SP) chief Sharad Pawar Pune: NCP (SP) announced that it will stage a statewide protest after govt hiked fuel prices for the fourth time in 15 days .The party’s chief Sharad Pawar met its core committee in Mumbai on Monday where, along with the upcoming MLC elections, fuel price hike, inflation and the poor…
Silchar: A rare flowering plant discovered in the remote Jatinga Hills of Assam’s Dima Hasao district has opened up fresh scientific evidence of a possible biodiversity link between northeast India and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, researchers said.The species, *Heliotropium ovatum* of the Heliotropiaceae family, was identified during a joint field study by researchers from…
Abdul Majeed Hakeem Ilahi, representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Syed Makhdoom Ashraf Jahangir Semnani in Ambedkarnagar on Sunday Ayodhya: Abdul Majeed Hakeem Ilahi, the representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran, visited the Sufi shrine of 14th-Century Sufi saint of the Chishti order Hazrat Syed Makhdoom…
Jaipur: The Jaipur Municipal Corporation has initiated action against teachers and employees who allegedly remained absent from census work despite being assigned duty and receiving training for the exercise.On Monday, the corporation’s Sanganer zone wrote to Malpura Gate police station seeking registration of FIRs against eight teachers for failing to report for census-related work.Earlier on…
NEW DELHI: A special CBI court in Delhi has acquitted the brother of former Union minister Subodh Kant Sahay and others in a coal block allocation case, strongly criticising the prosecution’s investigation and evidence.The former minister’s brother, Sudhir Kumar Sahay, was one of the directors of SKS Ispat & Power Ltd who was accused in…
New Zealand announces new visa rules which will come into effect from June 1. New Zealand has announced new visa rules making it difficult for non-English speakers to get work visa in the country, even for low-level jobs. The new rules will be implemented from June 1. English language requirements under the Accredited Employer Work…
