Varanasi: A 10-year-old boy died after suffering a bullet injury during celebratory firing at a wedding ceremony in Pandey Dera of Ganga Shivpur Diyar in Ballia district on Friday night.Ballia ASP (South) Sanjay Verma said the victim was attending the wedding of his cousin sister when someone opened celebratory fire. The boy was hit and…
Ahmedabad: Due to repair work in the Shedhi Canal, the water supply in the eastern region of Ahmedabad will be affected on May 3 during morning and evening hours. Residents will face water cuts. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s water project department informs the public that the state’s irrigation department supplies raw water from the Shedhi…
Patiala: The Punjab State Information Commission (PSIC) has issued a showcause notice under Section 20(1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, to the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the office the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO), Nabha, for continued failure to furnish complete information to an RTI appellant, and warned that a bailable…
Surat: The managing committee election of the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI) was held on Saturday, recording a low voter turnout of 15.88%. Of the 13,043 eligible voters, only 2,072 cast their votes, in line with the typically low participation seen in the chamber’s elections, members said.Of the total votes polled, 214…
Guwahati: Assam Police on Saturday arrested two persons in Kokrajhar district for allegedly storing country-made weapons.Acting on specific intelligence inputs regarding the concealment of the illegal firearms, a joint team of Assam Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) launched a search operation in the suspected location, leading to the seizure of the weapons.The police…
Lucknow: Researchers at the Isabella Thoburn College have developed a low-cost indoor air filtration system using industrial fly ash and agricultural biomass to tackle toxic kitchen air pollution.The innovation has been developed by research scholar Farheen Zehra under associate professor Alfred Lawrence and published in a journal of the American Chemical Society.According to the researchers,…
Rajkot: The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Devbhumi Dwarka Police conducted a raid at Jalaram Dairy in Jam Khambhaliya and busted an alleged case of dairy adulteration.During the operation, police seized and destroyed suspected adulterated dairy products and chemical substances worth Rs 2.37 lakh. The dairy owner, 43-year-old Ketan Asani, was detained for questioning.Following the…
Jaipur: The health department Saturday directed 678 govt doctors, absent from duty without authorisation for years, to personally appear before the directorate by May 5 or face disciplinary action.A senior official said the department issued a revised list of doctors who have remained absent for long periods on May 1.Any doctor named in the list…
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways on Saturday rolled out from Modern Coach Factory (MCF) at Raebareli the 100th Vande Bharat train, marking a major milestone in the journey that started in 2018 with only two such trains.Prior to induction of this 16-coach chair-car trainset into regular passenger service, the train will undergo oscillation trials to validate…
An Indian-origin man is in a critical condition after suffering severe burns while rescuing his sister from a fire that tore through a restaurant in Australia’s Adelaide Hills.47-year-old Baljeet Singh is being treated in the burns unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after sustaining burns to around 70 per cent of his body in the…
