Ahmedabad: Extensive security arrangements are in place to ensure peaceful polling on Sunday, commissioner of police G S Malik said. He asserted there were no law-and-order concerns in the city. Malik reviewed the security arrangements and also visited a polling station at the Municipal Gujarati School in Shahibaug to assess the preparedness at booths.The commissioner…
Ludhiana: The city, which struggles with sanitation, can look forward to better integrated solid waste management and cleaner roads. The finance and contracts committee (F&CC) gave approval to these works during a meeting held at the mayor camp office on Thursday.After three to four failed attempts, officials have now floated tenders with revised costs for…
Amritsar: As a part of a statewide exercise, the Amritsar district administration has announced an air raid preparedness drill on Friday at 8pm. To be held at the Dussehra Ground in Ranjit Avenue, the drill aims to train residents on safety protocols and emergency response during potential aerial threats.Additional deputy commissioner Rohit Gupta has urged…
Kolhapur: A 65-year-old woman from Ozare village in Jawali tehsil of Satara district died after the wall of a Zilla Parishad school fell on her, following heavy rain and wind on Wednesday evening.The deceased woman has been identified as Shantabai Lakde. Her husband, Baburao Lakde, had passed away during the Covid pandemic and she had…
Agartala: Prashanta Banik’s day begins in a govt-run school in Champamura village in Tripura’s Sepahijala district. But beyond the classroom, he has built a second identity — a successful young entrepreneur into lemon cultivation — drawning attention from the state’s agriculture minister Ratan Lal Nath.For Nath, Banik’s rise is more than a personal milestone. The…
Lucknow: To meet the Apr 30 deadline for ensuring 100% registry of farmers in the state, the govt will be carrying out special campaigns in villages where the registrations of the farmers has been low till now.Chief Secretary, SP Goyal, recently held a review meeting of the status of the farmers registration, and has directed…
Jaipur: Rajasthan’s health department has begun action against 697 govt doctors who are officially shown as serving the state but have been absent for years — some for over two decades. The list spans gynaecology, paediatrics, radiology, surgery, and general medical officers, laying bare a staffing crisis in govt hospitals where specialists are missing and…
NEW DELHI: India’s regional navigation system NaVIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation system), costing upwards of over Rs 3,200 crore, is now hanging by a thread as the number of fully functional navigation satellites in space has dropped to three satellites. NavIC is designed to run effectively with a constellation of seven satellites, though a minimum…
Quote of the day by Tony Blair (Image source: Wikipedia) “Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.” This strong line by Tony Blair still resonates with people of all ages because it talks about a problem that everyone faces: the choice between success…
Kajol, who has never shied away from speaking her mind, got candid about how relationships and lifestyles have evolved since the 1990s, as she looked back at her iconic film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ), which completed 30 years last year.In a conversation with Lilly Singh, Kajol pointed out how the mindset of young people…
