The top two teams from each group will make it to the semifinals of the tournament Panaji: India have been drawn with Bangladesh and Maldives in group B of the SAFF Women’s Championship 2026, after the draw held at the SAFF Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday.Group A comprises Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. The…
Varanasi: Panic gripped the Aneyi area under Badagaon police station on Wednesday afternoon after a fire broke out in plastic pipes dumped at the corner of Tulsidas Inter College sports ground.Station house officer Praveen Singh said firefighters battled the blaze for over two hours, while residents moved to safer spots to escape the suffocating black…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has refused to discharge Dixit Patel, chairman of the Jay Jalaram Education Trust, in the alleged NEET-UG 2024 OMR sheet manipulation case, holding that the material on record discloses prima facie evidence and grave suspicion requiring a full trial. Patel was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in…
Ludhiana: BJP leader Jiwan Gupta has taken a swipe at the municipal corporation over the dilapidated state of the city bus fleet, sarcastically suggesting that the parking site be turned into a museum. Dozens of buses, once part of the Ludhiana City Bus Service Ltd, are rotting away at Hambran Road and Tajpur Road, slowly…
Chandigarh: Observing that road re-carpeting works in the city are not being monitored by the engineering officers concerned, the chief engineer of the Chandigarh civic body has warned the officials that any delay in work implementation would invite punitive action.Chief engineer Sanjay Arora has written to the superintending engineer and all three executive engineers of…
Surat: The Gujarat High Court has stayed the arrest of a man in a rape case filed by the woman who was in a relationship with him for 18 years. The FIR was registered with the Dindoli police station after the man allegedly refused to marry her.During the hearing of the quashing petition, the accused…
Shillong: The high court of Meghalaya has directed authorities to strictly monitor the transportation of minerals and boulders to Bangladesh, ensuring that no vehicle carrying such materials is allowed to pass through the Land Customs Station and forest department check gates without a valid transport challan or other requisite documents.A division bench of Chief Justice…
Lucknow: Lending a fresh push to its PDA (Pichde, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) outreach, Samajwadi Party has appointed Seema Rajbhar as national president of the party’s Mahila Sabha.The development comes barely a month after the party nominated Rukmani Devi Nishad, elder sister of former MP Phoolan Devi, as the state president of Mahila Sabha.In the political…
Rajkot: A dispute over unpaid loan escalated into a murder after a 28-year-old man was stabbed multiple times by six men in Khakhrechi village of Morbi’s Maliya Miyana taluka post Tuesday midnight.The victim Anil Kandaniya was attacked around 1am at the grounds of a hotel.The complaint lodged by Kandaniya’s friend Vivek Patel at the Maliya…
Jaipur: The Palace on Wheels has reported a 45% surge in passenger traffic this year despite the turbulence of global travel markets.In FY 2025-26, the train operated 23 trips, carrying 854 passengers. For the first time in its 43-year history, it booked a full-train charter in May that would take the final tally to 938…
