Eyewitnesses said the fire engulfed the shanties within minutes Noida: A fire broke out near Kherli Hafizpur village next to Dankaur railway station on Monday, destroying around 25 shanties and leaving several families homeless. The blaze spread rapidly through the cluster of temporary shanties, forcing residents to run for safety along with whatever belongings they…
Panaji: RG MLA Viresh Borkar broke his silence on the turmoil within the party and said that founder president Manoj Parab’s resignation saddened him. Borkar quashed suggestions that he wanted to “take over” the party. He also reiterated that he will contest the St Andre seat again as RG candidate.Borkar, who claimed to have travelled…
Varanasi: A man accused of repeatedly raping and impregnating a 12-year-old girl and forcing her to take abortion pills was shot in the leg and arrested after an encounter with Karanda police in Ghazipur early Monday.CO (Sadar) Shekhar Sengar said a case was registered on Sunday after the girl became pregnant and was allegedly given…
Gandhinagar: The state govt has initiated intensive screening of passengers arriving at the Ahmedabad airport from African countries like Uganda, Congo and South Sudan in view of the Ebola outbreak in these countries. While there have been no suspected cases in Gujarat yet, state health minister Praful Pansheriya on Monday said that following the Centre’s…
Ludhiana: A 16-year-old boy has died in hospital four days after being ambushed and hacked by a gang of armed juveniles while running errands in the city.Sahil, had recently finished his Class-X examinations and was travelling by motorcycle with his cousin to purchase vegetables on May 21. When the pair neared a govt service centre…
Chandigarh: Leader of the opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Monday accused the AAP govt and the assembly speaker, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, of the “systematic destruction of democratic safeguards and constitutional conventions” through the appointment of ruling party MLAs as heads of crucial House committees.Bajwa expressed displeasure over the appointment of…
Pune: Several districts, including Pune, Navi Mumbai and Nagpur, may now have to rely on reserve staff for the ongoing house-listing exercise for Census 2027 after Bombay high court’s vacation bench stayed the state govt’s move to deploy teachers and non-teaching staff from private unaided schools for compulsory census duties.The stay order, especially during the…
Agartala: The Crime Branch of Tripura arrested four police personnel for alleged misappropriation of a large quantity of confiscated narcotic cough syrup during an anti-drug operation in Teliamura in Tripura’s Khowai district.The accused policemen were identified as inspector Ajit Debbarma, SI Rajendra Reang, woman sub-inspector Sampa Das (all from Teliamura PS), and assistant sub-inspector Sachindra…
Lucknow: UP govt said on Monday that the farmer registry campaign, being conducted in the state with the objective of providing transparent and quick benefits of govt schemes to farmers, has now started showing results on a large scale.A govt spokesperson said that more than 2.28 crore farmers have been registered so far, which is…
The injured persons at a hospital on Monday Rajkot: A woman and her daughter-in-law were killed and about 20 others injured after a private bus ferrying pilgrims to religious places overturned near Gondal town of Rajkot district around 4:30am on Monday.According to the police, the accident occurred near Vorakotda village when the bus driver attempted…
