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Shillong: Shyntorbulia village in Ri-Bhoi district has experienced its first-ever free community health check-up camp, bringing essential medical services to one of the most geographically isolated settlements in the region. The check-up camp was organised on Saturday.The hamlet is cut off from the main road by two rivers on either side and hills on the remaining two, making access to healthcare extremely difficult. The nearest govt dispensary is about 15km at Mawhati, while Nongpoh Civil Hospital is nearly 30km from the village.Guwahati: Political Yatra, Booth- Level Campaign, Crime & More“Around 80 patients from the village availed free consultations and received…
Kanpur: Kanpur’s Crime Branch exposed a fake GST gang that obtained GST registration numbers by creating fake and non-existent firms using forged documents and then caused losses worth crores to govt revenue by misusing Input Tax Credit (ITC) through fake tax invoices and e-way bills without any actual purchase or sale of gosods.Police have arrested the mastermind CA and one associate of the gang on the basis of internet IP numbers.Kanpur News Festival Security, Ring Road Push, Reel Tragedy, Lamborghini Crash, GST ScamDCP crime Shravan Kumar Singh, during a press conference held on Sunday, said that the gang carried out…
Pune: An overall voter turnout of 68.28% was recorded on Saturday for the elections to 12 zilla parishads (ZP) and 125 panchayat samitis (PS) in the state.The State Election Commission (SEC) released final data which said that out of 2.07 crore eligible electors, 1.41 crore voters cast their ballots for 731 ZP seats and 1,462 PS seats.Pune: Farmer Crisis, Convention Centre Row & Public Safety IssuesThe highest turnout across 125 talukas at 74.89% was registered in Parbhani district, followed closely by Kolhapur (74.45%) and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (72.69%).Three districts recorded turnout above 70% out of the 12 that went to polls.…
Panaji: After years of coastal residents complaining about loud music at night, the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has intensified noise monitoring by making its centralised monitoring system operational round-the-clock from Dec.Staff now work in three shifts to monitor noise through 38 online systems installed at various establishments.Goa: ISL Hurdles, Fake Storm Alert, ODP Row & Citizenship DemandThese are in addition to the Board’s coastal noise monitoring stations located at Palolem, Cavelossim, Colva, Benaulim, Calangute, Anjuna, Candolim, Vagator and Arambol. Officials said 28 establishments were issued notices in Jan after monitoring was intensified.Citizen complaints have also strengthened enforcement after…
Mohali: Sohana police have registered a case against seven persons for allegedly selling 44 marlas of land belonging to Gurdwara Amb Sahib, managed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), on the basis of forged documents. The accused allegedly executed the sale using a fake power of attorney, causing a substantial financial loss to the SGPC.The accused named in the FIR were identified as Rajinder Singh, a resident of Sector 44A, Chandigarh; Gurinder Singh, Talwinder Singh, Satvir Singh, Baljinder Singh and Jaswant Singh, all residents of IT City, Mohali; and Jagtar Singh, a resident of Gurdwara Amb Sahib.Chandigarh: Leadership Crisis,…
Lucknow: On directions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Lucknow Police intensified their crackdown against sale, storage and use of banned Chinese kite string, carrying out extensive preventive checks across the city in the wake of recent fatal and serious accidents.JCP (law and order) Babloo Kumar said police teams inspected over 700 shops, godowns and other locations where kite-flying material was sold and issued three challans for running shops illegally. Lucknow: Pasmanda Ulema Board Push, 20 Year Traffic Plan, CCTV Gaps And More”Based on specific inputs, a large-scale checking drive was carried out across the city and no Chinese manjha was…
Patna: Several civil courts in the state, including those in Patna, Aurangabad and Bhagalpur, were evacuated on Monday morning after authorities received bomb threat emails, prompting heightened security and suspension of judicial proceedings. The email, sent to the courts’ official addresses and the District Bar Association, warned of multiple improvised explosive devices (IEDs) allegedly containing RDX.Patna SSP Kartikeya K Sharma said the bomb threat email received by the civil court appeared to be a hoax. “The email was received by the registrar of Patna civil court on Monday morning. The cyber cell is attempting to trace the IP address of…
Jaipur: State govt will develop an IT City near Jaipur—announced in the state budget—on the lines of Visakhapatnam’s date centre hub, Amaravati’s Quantum Valley, and Hyderabad’s HITEC City. chief secretary V Srinivas stated at a high-level meeting of the urban development and housing department Saturday.Union minister of state for Ministry of Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh, and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for Quantum Valley in Amaravati Saturday. The Andhra Pradesh govt is also developing a data centre hub in Visakhapatnam. In July last year, a team of JDA officials led by former JDA…
Nagpur: A 47-year-old single mother, who had to bear with darkness at her modest home in Chinchbhuvan for two-and-a-half months, finally got an electricity meter installed on Sunday, courtesy the help extended by the Beltarodi police station. Beltarodi police had taken up the plea from Surekha Masram for grievance redressal among other complaints on Saturday. Surekha, a domestic help, raised her daughter single-handedly after being driven out of the family home by her husband’s relatives.Nagpur: Vidarbha Investment Surge, GCC Growth Push, Logistics Hub Plans And MoreSurekha now lives in a small hut. When she applied for a power connection, the…
THANE: A 28-year-old woman died after falling from a crowded suburban local train during the morning rush hour in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Saturday, the Government Railway Police (GRP) said.The incident took place at around 8.10 am at Badlapur railway station, an official from the Kalyan GRP said, according to news agency PTI.According to senior inspector Pandhari Kande of the Kalyan GRP, the victim, Chetana Devrukhkar, was attempting to board a moving train bound for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) when she slipped and fell on the platform.The official said the deceased was employed with a firm in Thane and…