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Shillong: More than 6.5 lakh electors have been identified for further verification under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026, with hearings currently underway at the district level, Meghalaya chief electoral officer BDR Tiwari said.In an online review meeting, Tiwari said notices are being generated and served to voters whose records could not be linked to the 2005 rolls or where discrepancies were found during data mapping.A total of 6,51,644 such cases have been identified, including 2,22,786 electors with no mapping and 4,28,858 with other mismatches.However, voters whose names appear in the draft roll and are successfully mapped with 2005…
Mangaluru: Mangaluru City women police station personnel arrested a 53-year-old woman who had allegedly been evading arrest and court proceedings for nearly 15 years in a case registered under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.The accused, identified as Sefiya, a resident of Moodubidire taluk, was wanted in a case registered in 2011 by the Mangaluru City women’s police station under Sections 3(2)(a), 5(1)(d) and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.The case was taken up for trial before the Third JMFC Court in Mangaluru as Split CC No. 2/2014, and was later listed as a long-pending case under LPC No. 10/2019.City…
Mandya: A 27-year-old woman died after falling into Cauvery River while taking a selfie near the parking area at KRS in Srirangapatna taluk on Tuesday. The deceased is Kusumanjali, a resident of Ramakrishna Nagar in Mysuru.According to police, Kusumanjali was with her mother Veena when the incident happened. She reportedly sat on the retaining wall near the river to take a selfie, and accidentally slipped and fell into the water — right in front of her mother. Police and rescue personnel recovered her body from the river, and shifted it to the KR Hospital mortuary for post-mortem. KRS police are…
Patna: The body of Rosie Khatoon, a dancer from Kolkata, was found at a rented flat in Indira Nagar Road No. 3 under Jakkanpur police station area of Patna on Monday night with police suspecting a drug overdose. She had arrived in Patna on Aug 12 and was staying at her friend’s flat.Police said Rosie’s friend Soma Mandal and her husband Aryan had left for Deoghar on Aug 14. Aryan’s nephew was present with Rosie when she died on Aug 17. Aryan said he was away and learned about the incident from his nephew after returning. He reached Patna on…
The case involved alleged extortion from contractors, transporters and coal traders, with the money being used to support the banned TSPC Ranchi: A special NIA court on Tuesday sentenced 12 people to rigorous imprisonment between 8 and 10 years and imposed fines ranging from Rs 40,000 to Rs 90,000 in the 2016 Magadh-Amrapali terror funding case.The court sentenced five to RI of 10 years under sections 16, 17, 20 and 23 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Six were sentenced to eight years of RI under the same UAPA sections. Another convict was sentenced to five years of RI.Sources…
Varanasi: A video showing a woman being dragged out of a private school during an Independence Day programme in Sigra police station area has triggered controversy on social media. Police said the video was edited and a selective portion of the incident was circulated online.According to Sigra inspector Shivakant Mishra, the incident took place on August 15 during a programme organised for students from KG to Class 8. Around noon, while students were performing and parents were present, a 34-year-old woman allegedly entered the school premises and created nuisance. Police identified the woman as Alka, a resident of Nagar Nigam…
T’puram: Govt will constitute a special squad to intensify measures against communicable diseases, including dengue and chikungunya, in Vattiyoorkavu constituency, said the health minister K Muraleedharan.The squad will function under the coordination of ward councillors, with officials from the health department and the city corporation’s health wing taking part in the preventive activities. The move is aimed at improving coordination and ensuring that interventions are focused on areas reporting disease cases.The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Muraleedharan on Tuesday, attended by councillors and officials of the health department and the corporation. Complaints had been raised that councillors…
Kolkata: Ayushman Bharat (AB) patients continued to trickle in for the second day on Tuesday. The AB-PMJAY scheme for Bengal was rolled out Sunday. Hospitals started admitting patients under this scheme from Monday.In addition, the empaneled private hospitals are also getting calls from individuals enquiring on documents required to bring to the hospital in case they needed treatment, the procedures covered under this health scheme etc. Health officials said that more hospitals are undergoing the final touches for getting empaneled.“We got one patient admitted on Tuesday while two others who got their AB-PMJAY approval on Tuesday will come for admission…
Ohio eighth-grader Archishman Dey’s experiment reveals incense produced the highest PM2.5 pollution among five household sources. (Photo: Society for Science) An eighth-grader from Solon, Ohio, is drawing attention to an often-overlooked source of air pollution – the air inside our homes. Archishman Dey, a student at Solon Middle School, conducted a science project examining how common household activities affect levels of PM2.5, or fine particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrometres or less in diameter.His experiment tested five everyday sources – an air fryer, candle, humidifier, natural gas and incense. Of these, burning an incense stick produced the highest level of PM2.5…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said 184.5kg of cocaine was found concealed in brown boxes at a courier facility in Lagos on Monday 3 August.The agency said it was being exported by an international trafficking network that for years had used Nigeria as a transit hub to move drugs to the UK, other parts of Europe and to Asia.Micheal was arrested 10 days later at Lagos’s Murtala Mohammed International Airport as he attempted to leave the country on a business-class flight to the French capital.”Upon credible intelligence that he intended to flee the country… our operatives moved decisively…