Author: Indmedia

Gurgaon: Vehicle owners in Haryana’s national capital region (NCR) districts will no longer be able to buy petrol or diesel without a valid pollution under control (PUC) certificate from Oct 1.The state govt has decided to enforce a “No PUC, no fuel” policy through technology-driven checks at fuel stations.To implement the policy, govt will install automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras at all fuel stations — 2,780 — across Haryana NCR by Sept 30.According to the implementation plan, all fuel stations currently are without ANPR infrastructure. The govt has fixed Sept 30 as the deadline for completing the rollout, with…

Aizawl: Teachers from ad hoc-aided high schools excluded from the Mizoram govt’s revised provincialisation plan held a peaceful sit-in outside Vanapa Hall in Aizawl city on Wednesday.The protest was organised by the Mizoram Govt Adhoc-Aided High School Teachers’ Association (MIGAHTA), which represents teachers from more than 90 such schools across the state.The teachers demanded withdrawal of the revised provincialisation order and scrapping of new rules that would move several previously approved schools to the Lump Sum Grant-in-Aid system.”We want the govt to withdraw the new rules. While they may offer better salaries and service benefits to teachers, they downgrade the…

Times News NetworkKanpur: After witnessing widespread showers over the past few days, the city experienced a dry spell on Wednesday as no rainfall was recorded and bright sunshine prevailed throughout the day. Despite the clear skies, temperatures remained below Tuesday’s levels, while high humidity continued to make weather conditions uncomfortable for residents.According to the weather observatory at Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology (CSA), the city’s maximum temperature settled at 34.5 degrees Celsius, about 1.5 degrees lower than Tuesday, while the minimum temperature was 26.8 degrees Celsius, almost unchanged from the previous day.The absence of rainfall coupled with…

A group of women who live in a slum around 200 metre away from the garbage heap heard the child crying and rescued her Noida: A one-and-a-half-year-old girl was rescued from a garbage heap in Bisrakh, an official from the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) said. The residents of a slum adjacent to the dumpyard spotted the child and alerted the police. She was taken into CWC custody, where officials said she is safe and in good health.Around 5pm on Tuesday, as a group of women who work as domestic help in the buildings around the slum cluster was leaving for…

Pune: Shivajinagar observatory has registered its wettest July since records began in 1901, with rainfall reaching 508.9mm between July 1 and 28, surpassing the previous July record of 508.5mm set in 1907, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said on Wednesday.IMD scientist SD Sanap said the 2026 rainfall total was now the highest ever recorded for July at the observatory, ending a record that had stood for 119 years.The unprecedented rainfall was triggered by a succession of favourable weather systems through the month. “Most of the rainfall was recorded during July 1-8, when a Bay of Bengal depression, an offshore trough…

Villagers of Costi gather to pray for shutting down the piggery plant Margao: Residents of Costi-Kalay in Sanguem have protested against a piggery in the village, alleging that it is contaminating local water sources and posing a health risk.A large number of villagers, including women, gathered recently to voice their anger. They warned that authorities would be responsible if the standoff led to any untoward incident, especially with Ganesh Chaturthi approaching.Sanguem mamlatdar Viraj Malkarni, along with Curchorem police and health officials, visited the site and took stock of the situation. They assured the protesting villagers that a detailed report would…

Chandigarh: The marketing season for paddy produced last year will end in Sept, but 32 lakh MT of the crop is still stacked in Punjab’s rice mills, waiting to be processed into rice.With only two months left before paddy procurement begins, Punjab is staring at an acute shortage of storage space.The paddy cannot be milled because 153.5 lakh MT of milled rice is yet to be moved from the state, leaving little storage space. Under the Food Corporation of India (FCI) system, millers can process only as much paddy as storage space created by the evacuation of older stocks permits.…

Lucknow: A 41-year-old railway loco pilot died during treatment on Wednesday, a day after a heavy tree branch fell on him in Cantonment when he was returning home from duty. His family alleged that instead of rescuing him, several bystanders recorded the incident on their mobile phones.The deceased, Sushil Kumar, a resident of Udayganj, is survived by his wife and daughter.According to his brother-in-law Rajesh, Sushil was returning home on his bike around 5.30pm when he stopped near Balmiki Crossing, Suddenly a thick tree branch crashed on him, leaving him critically injured.An Armyman passing by finally came to help and…

Patna: Ahead of polling for the Bankipur assembly by-election on Thursday, Jan Suraaj alleged that around 20 of its leaders and workers were detained by police in Patna on Wednesday night.The party claimed that Bihar STF personnel were conducting continuous detentions and that some workers were being picked up on allegations of being “disruptive” and “spreading wrong information”. Following the alleged action, Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor convened an emergency meeting at the party office.Jan Suraaj national spokesperson Kumar Saurav Singh questioned the police action, saying the party had no objection if action was taken against anyone found violating the…

Centre allocated Rs 3,705 crore to Rajasthan under Samagra Shiksha in 2025-26 and released Rs 2,982 crore as its share. Expenditure during the year, including the state’s contribution, stood at Rs 4,141 crore Jaipur: Rajasthan has completed over 82% of the school infrastructure projects sanctioned under Union govt’s Samagra Shiksha scheme over the past five years, but hundreds of classrooms, science laboratories, boundary walls and renovation of dilapidated school buildings are still pending, according to data tabled in Parliament.Replying to a question by Barmer MP Ummeda Ram Beniwal in Lok Sabha on July 28, minister of state for education Jayant…