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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh govt generated Rs 26,683 crore from its own resources over the past three years, reflecting the state’s efforts to strengthen its financial position, chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Saturday.Sukhu spoke during the first session of the MLA priority meeting held on the second day of discussions for the financial year 2026-27 with MLAs from Kullu, Mandi, and Shimla districts, focusing on constituency-wise development priorities. Highlighting key achievements, Sukhu said the state earned a financial benefit of around Rs 401 crore after acquiring ownership of the Wildflower Hall Hotel in Shimla district and is expected to…
The State Museum, Lucknow is starting a 10-day Art Appreciation Course from Feb 18. The course is free of cost and applications can be submitted offline. Applicants must be at least 18-year-old. About 125 seats are available, and admission will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The course covers archaeology, numismatics, conservation, painting, epigraphy, museology, and the Paleolithic age.Lucknow: CCTVs AI To Guard E-Way, UP Inks Rs3,000 Cr MoUs, Akhilesh PDA Pathshala And More Source link
Patna: A special sales tax department team raided a cloth showroom in Motijheel area of Muzaffarpur on Saturday afternoon. The operation, which started around 2 pm, targeted suspected tax evasion involving a large sum of money in unbilled stock, especially new arrivals for Holi.Sources said complaints highlighted mismatches in turnover and tax data, causing significant govt revenue loss. Officials sealed the showroom, confiscated employees’ cellphones, and are scrutinising computers, billing systems, stock registers, and warehouse inventory across all floors. Following the action, several other major clothing dealers in the city hurriedly closed shops, fearing similar action.Patna: 1409 Special Trains For…
Jaipur: The Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) removed encroachment from about 7,000 square metres of land acquired by the Board and designated for commercial use in Indira Gandhi Nagar, Sector-1, Jaipur on Friday, officials said.Officials said illegal construction was going on at the plot for the last two months. On Friday, RHB officials with police demolished the construction.Jaipur: Med Graduates Held, Traffic Dept Corrigendum, Arrest Warrant Stay For Salman Khan And More”We have conducted a survey to determine that present value of this property is over Rs 70 crore,” stated an official.Gopal Singh, secretary of the Rajasthan Housing Board, said any…
Nagpur: The Adani Group plans to start work on its proposed Rs70,000 crore integrated coal gasification and downstream derivatives plant at Linga in Kalmeshwar near Nagpur this year. This is dubbed as one of the company’s key ventures in clean energy. “The Rs70,000 crore investment is for the first phase. There are plans to add a second phase of the plant entailing an equal amount of investment in the future. The project is expected to create 30,000 jobs,” said Jeet Adani, director of Adani Defence and Aerospace. “The project would develop advanced chemical manufacturing capabilities and reduce import dependence for…
Bokaro: A day after an elephant herd attacked and killed three elderly members of a family, the same herd attacked again on Friday around 8.15 pm and killed an elderly person and his minor grandson at Gangpur village while critically injuring three others under the Mhuatand police station of Gomia block in Bokaro district, forest officials said on Saturday. The death toll in the elephant attack in the block in the last three days alone has climbed to five. The same herd had also attacked and killed two others in January.The deceased in Friday’s attack were identified as Somar Sao…
T’puram: Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar directed the interim vice-chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, to freeze the syndicate’s decision to grant an SFI activist who failed BFA examination admission to MFA and its decision to treat him as having completed the degree. The governor also ordered the suspension of the syndicate’s decision to initiate process for the appointment of an assistant professor.Vice-chancellor Geetha Kumari conveyed the directive through a letter handed over by the Lok Bhavan secretary.The student, A Kalesh, enrolled in the four-year BFA (mural painting) course failed the examinations in 2005. He was later admitted to…
Kolkata: CPM had gauged Congress’s approach and was preparing to contest all 294 Bengal assembly seats in the upcoming polls as part of the Left Front, according to party state secretary Md Salim. Salim’s comments came a day after the Congress high command in Delhi decided that the party would go it alone in the Bengal polls.”We had entered into seat-sharing arrangements with Congress and other parties in the 2016 and 2021 assembly polls as well as the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. But there was no joint Left-Congress movement in the past two years. Congress’s approach was becoming evident to…
When the job of eSafety Commissioner came up, she bashfully explains there was a small pool of candidates to choose from. The man who helped write the bill, Malcolm Turnbull, went on to become prime minister. He hired her and, she says, wanted a commissioner with a background in online safety, but also experience in the tech sector itself. Source link
Tristan Shae Kerr died after the incident in Abertridwr on Thursday and five remain in custody. Source link