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A Russian soldier has been taken into custody after opening fire on fellow servicemen and launching a deadly shooting spree in annexed Crimea, the Moscow-installed governor said Tuesday. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of the southern Crimean city of Sevastopol, said four people were killed in the village of Khmelnitskoye. They included one soldier and three civilians aged 71, 64 and 59. Four others, including one soldier, were wounded, with Razvozhayev saying that medical personnel were “doing everything possible to save them.” “The attacker has been detained,” Razvozhayev wrote in a post on Telegram. The exiled news outlet Agentstvo, citing a…
The opposition questioned the expenditure, while the ruling BJP accused the opposition of going back on a decision that had been taken unanimously by all political parties. MUMBAI: After BMC’s proposal to replace Mahindra Scorpio SUVs allotted to key political office-bearers in the civic body with six new Toyota Innovas ran into a controversy, MNS office bearers, as a symbolic protest, sent toy Toyota Innova models to the BMC Commissioner.“Our shakha 191 couriered the three Toyota Innova models to the Commissioner, to enable the Commissioner to distribute it among the office bearers, last week. But the courier was not accepted…
New Delhi: Conversion of properties from leasehold to freehold in Delhi is an important right available to citizens, the high court has said, flagging the pendency of more than 1,300 such applications with Delhi Development Authority (DDA), for which the agency has collected over Rs 155 crore.Conversion enables citizens to freely deal with, transfer and otherwise transact in respect of their immovable properties, the court said. “Hundreds of immovable property owners in Delhi have…, in fact, paid the necessary conversion fee… Their applications have been put on hold and there is no clarity as to when the decision in respect…
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Hyderabad: A 37-year-old auto driver was hacked to death by a neighbour due to personal grudges at Singareni Colony in Saidabad on Tuesday morning in full public view in the locality. The victim succumbed to injuries while being shifted to Osmania General Hospital (OGH). The accused is absconding and police have launched a manhunt to nab him.According to Saidabad police, the deceased was Ameer, a resident of Singareni Colony. At around 10.30 am on Tuesday, Ameer had an argument with Suman, an auto driver from the same locality near the latter’s house. During the argument, Suman attacked Ameer on the…
CHENNAI: Tensions flared in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur on Tuesday as DMK workers threw slippers at police personnel and burnt an effigy while protesting the detention of Leader of Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin.TVK cadres also staged a protest nearby, leading to a charged political atmosphere in the area.Hundreds of DMK cadres took to the streets across Thanjavur to condemn Udhayanidhi’s detention, burning an effigy and raising slogans against chief minister C Joseph Vijay.Several shops remained shut fearing violence, while traffic was disrupted as protesters blocked roads and Thanjavur Police diverted vehicles by closing some routes.The protest erupted after Udhayanidhi was detained by…
Gujarat Assembly building Photo Yogesh Chawda Gandhinagar: Gujarat assembly speaker Shankar Chaudhary on Monday announced that a three-day session of the state assembly will be held from Sep 8 to 10.In a video statement, Chaudhary said the ninth session of the 15th Gujarat legislative assembly will include govt resolutions, bills and a concluding resolution. “Apart from these, subjects recommended by the assembly’s business advisory committee will also be taken up during the session,” he said.The speaker said MLAs can begin submitting questions related to their constituencies from Monday through both online and offline modes. The questions will be taken up…
Bhubaneswar: Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) has issued a notice to airmen (NOTAMN), alerting them to alter their flight path while approaching the airport after it discovered height violation by a high-rise along the airport’s funnel path.The contents of the NOTAMN contain technical details with coordinates of the structure, helping pilots manoeuvre the obstacle.Days before the NOTAMN, BPIA served notice on the director of the real estate firm for building the high rise along the funnel area of the airport, violating height regulations. Besides, the distance of the building is only 3.5 km from the aerodrome reference point.”NOTAMN is issued…
Guwahati: A heartrending appeal by a young woman from Hiloni Nepali Khuti in Assam’s Sivasagar district to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during his visit on Monday has once again brought the spotlight on the environmental cost of indiscriminate stone quarrying.The woman alleged that continuous stone and sand extraction has severely damaged the Dikhow river area, thereby worsening erosion, intensifying the flood impact and reviving concerns that residents have raised for years about hill cutting, ecological degradation and threats to human habitation.“Sir, our environment has become very bad. They have destroyed everything by cutting stones. Please stop the stone quarrying,…
Pune: Dengue cases in Pune nearly doubled in July compared to the previous month, with doctors attributing the rise to intermittent rainfall and expanding waterlogged areas providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.According to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) data, the city recorded 323 suspected dengue cases in July, up from 175 in June. Since Jan, Pune has reported 671 suspected dengue cases, of which 26 have tested positive.PMC health department officials said “suspected” dengue cases refer to patients who test positive on the NS1 antigen test in private laboratories but are yet to be confirmed through IgM and IgG antibody testing…