Hyderabad: The rare Southern Birdwing, one of India’s largest butterflies, has been recorded in the Kollapur Range of the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, marking its first documented sighting in Telangana.The Southern Birdwing is primarily found in the Western Ghats and has only occasionally been recorded in parts of the Eastern Ghats. Its documentation in the Amrabad…
Friday’s maximum temperature in the city settled at 40 degrees Celsius Gurgaon: After a hot and humid Friday, residents may get intermittent relief over the coming week. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and gusty winds of 40-50 kmph at isolated places across Haryana on June 27 and 28, followed by…
Kolkata: Citing the Garden Reach and Taratala disasters, former KMC councillor of ward 48 Biswarup Dey quits Trinamool Congress, hours after attending the workers’ conference, organised for the North Kolkata party workers, under the banner “we are not traitors” on Thursday.Dey was among the eight councillors who were present at the Rammohun Hall and was…
Ghaziabad: On Wednesday, one family in Vaishali mourned a son they believed was dead. They performed his ‘tehrvi’, garlanded his photograph and tried to make peace with loss.By Thursday morning, that grief had turned into disbelief. Girdhar Bisht (40), missing for over a month and presumed murdered, stepped out of an autorickshaw and walked back…
Panaji: Considering the number of commercial establishments operating in the Anjuna and Vagator areas and the noise mapping data of the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), the Goa state pollution control board is likely to recommend to the department of environment to notify Anjuna-Caisua village panchayat as a commercial area under the provisions of noise…
Varanasi: Kotwali Nagar police arrested an accused of cattle smuggling after an encounter in Ballia district on Friday.During a checking drive on Shivrampur Ghat Road near the Greenfield Expressway, the police received information about the movement of a wanted accused of cow smuggling, Madan Mohan alias Dablu, 27.On seeing a suspect, the police signalled the…
Ahmedabad: City police and the crime branch have registered three cases under the NDPS Act after recovering ganja, mephedrone and charas in raids carried out in different parts of the city over the past two days.In the biggest seizure, the crime branch arrested an individual named Satish Mehta in Ranip and recovered 17.812kg of ganja…
Bathinda: Punjab agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian inaugurated the first bio-fertiliser quality control laboratory in the state and laid the foundation stone of a seed testing laboratory in Bathinda on Friday.The lab is meant to check the quality of bio-fertilisers and ensure availability of quality agricultural inputs to farmers. Addressing a gathering, Khuddian said the…
Neelam Gorhe said sections of MCOCA should be invoked against those responsible for the deaths of 22 people Pune: Members of the legislative council have demanded that the state govt invoke provisions of the MCOCA against the accused arrested in the recent hooch tragedy that claimed 22 lives in Pune, last month.The issue was raised…
Silchar: Cachar Police busted an alleged commercial sex racket at two spa centres on Thursday, arresting 28 women and the owner of one of the spas.The raids targeted two spas on Park Road after complaints from residents, additional SP (crime) Rajat Kumar Pal said on Friday.Police arrested 21 women from one spa and seven from…
