Noida: Two foreign nationals, including a woman, were arrested in Greater Noida on Tuesday for allegedly possessing and smuggling narcotics, with police recovering 1 kg of a white powder suspected to be a prohibited substance.The arrests were made in a joint operation by the Surajpur police station team and the intelligence unit following information about…
Panaji: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the introduction of the Goa Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2026, in the assembly, proposing stringent penalties for religious conversions allegedly carried out through force, coercion, undue influence, allurement, fraudulent means or marriage. The Bill provides for imprisonment of up to the end of life, fines…
Varanasi: Four students were injured in an alleged clash between two groups outside the gate of Govt Jubilee Inter College in Bakshipur on Monday afternoon.The incident took place around 1.30 pm, shortly after school hours, police said.According to police, a long-standing dispute between a Class VII student and a Class X student escalated into a…
Gandhinagar: Gujarat is set to expand into nuclear power with state govt and Centre working on a new nuclear power complex at Dhuvaran in Anand district through a 50:50 joint venture, top govt sources said.The proposed project is likely to have an installed capacity of either 4,200 MW or 7,000 MW, with the final configuration…
Ludhiana deputy commissioner Himanshu Jain stated that staff have been deployed specifically to assist businesses with onboarding, emphasising that modern, technology-driven public procurement strengthens administrative transparency, efficiency, and public confidence. Ludhiana: A Government e-Marketplace (GeM) facilitation centre has been launched in Ludhiana to help micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and industrial units access central…
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann Chandigarh: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday approved a more than 120% salary hike for teachers in Adarsh Schools, raising their monthly pay from around Rs 10,000 to over Rs 22,000. The decision will benefit around 1,100 teachers.Chairing a meeting with a teachers’ delegation, Mann said successive govts had…
Pune: Electoral registration officers in Pune division will hear 50 to 150 SIR cases every day after publication of the draft electoral rolls. Chief electoral officer S Chockalingam told officials on Tuesday to use daily dashboard data to set clear targets for disposal of cases and ensure that voters are troubled.At a review meeting for…
Surat: A 61-year-old retired man from Lalgate was allegedly cheated of Rs 14.74 lakh by cyber fraudsters who posed as bank officials on WhatsApp and lured him with a “senior citizen benefit card” before convincing him to install a malicious mobile application.Cyber Crime police have registered a complaint for cheating, forgery and related offences and…
Shillong: Concerns over the high prevalence of anaemia among pregnant and lactating women in Meghalaya were raised in the assembly on Tuesday, with CM Conrad K Sangma assuring the House that he would personally monitor a special study into the issue.Leader of opposition Mukul Sangma told the assembly that he had detected an unusually high…
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