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Rajkot: A 49-year-old woman from Adityana village in Porbandar district’s Ranavav taluka lodged a police complaint, alleging two loan consultants cheated her family of Rs 13 lakh, while facilitating an education loan for her daughter’s study abroad.Based on the complaint filed by Jaya Khuti, Ranavav police registered a case against Jaydeep Ramani and Mouli Talaviya for criminal breach of trust and abetment.According to the complaint, Khuti’s family had approached a Rajkot-based consultancy for help in obtaining a visa and arranging finances for her daughter’s higher education in the UK. Ramani, an agent of the consultancy, helped the family get a…
Floral tributes being paid to CRPF jawan Pintu Kumar who died of cerebral malaria Jamshedpur: Two minor girls died after their families allegedly relied on exorcism and home remedies instead of seeking timely medical treatment in West Singhbhum district, officials said on Wednesday.Lata Kisku, 12, and Deepika Murmu, 7, residents of Pahardiha village in Anandpur block, had been suffering from high fever and fatigue since July 25. They died on Tuesday.Their fathers, Arnesh Kisku and Subin Murmu, told reporters that the girls had not been taken to a hospital and were treated with home remedies and traditional rituals.Following the deaths,…
Surat: Two Right to Information (RTI) applications filed by a city resident have revealed that a committee set up by Gujarat govt in 2023 to investigate the rise in sudden heart attack deaths among youth in the post-Covid period has not yet reached any conclusion. The RTI responses also stated that the government does not maintain specific data on such deaths.The applications were filed by Ramesh Jilariya, a resident of Puna Gam area and president of the Diamond Worker Union Gujarat (DWUG). Concerned by the increasing number of sudden deaths among apparently healthy young individuals, he sought information on the…
Vadodara: A 41-year-old businessman, Vishal Vyas, on Wednesday filed a complaint of cheating against a father-son duo at Gorwa police station. Vyas alleged that the accused told him they were relatives of former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik.According to police, around six months ago Vyas had gone to Tapas Patnaik’s home in New Delhi where he met the latter’s son, Ashutosh Patnaik. Vyas said Ashutosh told him that he was a cousin of Naveen Patnaik and an advisor on health to the Indian govt.Ashutosh told Vyas that he was in the business of industrial fuel oil and could supply stock as…
Varanasi: A unique expression of India’s guru-disciple tradition was witnessed at Kashi’s Patalpuri Mutt on Wednesday, as several Muslim women performed the aarti of Peethadheeshwar Jagadguru Balak Devacharya Maharaj and sought his blessings by touching his feet on Guru Purnima.Transcending religious, caste and social divisions, the mutt opened its doors to devotees from all communities. A large number of members of tribal communities and Muslim families visited the mutt from the morning to participate in the celebrations.Some devotees also received diksha during the programme.Rampanth Panthacharya Rajiv Shriguruji said the guru-disciple tradition is one of the broadest and most harmonious traditions…
T’puram: The state govt has fast-tracked creation of key logistics infrastructure around the Vizhinjam port as the export-import (EXIM) cargo operation is set to be launched on Aug 18.Nearly five acres at the state-owned Trivandrum Spinning Mills Ltd (TSM) in Balaramapuram has been identified for establishing Vizhinjam’s first Container Freight Station (CFS), while another five acres at Kerala Automobiles Ltd (KAL) has been earmarked for an empty container yard, which is expected to be operational within the next two to three months.The proposed CFS will be developed jointly by the industries department and Kerala State Industrial Enterprises (KSIE). Officials said…
The Iskcon kitchen where school meals will be cooked Kolkata: Govt schools in Kolkata Municipal Corporation area will continue to serve boiled eggs with midday meals even after Iskcon takes over the programme and starts supplying vegetarian food from Saturday, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said at Nabanna on Wednesday.The handover of the midday meal programme in Kolkata to Iskcon had triggered concerns because the organisation serves only vegetarian meals. With the weekly egg being a key attraction for many students, parents, school authorities and self-help groups (SHGs) had raised objections over the possibility of eggs being dropped from the menu.Adhikari…
President Donald Trump has unveiled $22 billion plans to renovate Dulles International Airport near Washington DC. The plans are part of his wider initiatives to beautify the capital city.The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil reports from aboard one of the airport’s iconic ‘people movers’, mobile lounges that transport passengers from the terminal to the tarmac, which have been used since the airport opened in 1962. The plan would replace the decades-old mobile lounges with an expanded train system and new concourses.Travellers told the BBC that modernisation is needed, but noted the ‘people movers’ are a little nostalgic. Source link
When a detective tells him the force is gathering evidence, Bush seeks to pass off his criminal acts as administrative oversights.”I know I’m not good at accounting, me handwriting’s bad and all that, and I’m sure there’s times when you’ve looked at things and gone, ‘I don’t know what that means’.”Bush also complained about police procedure.”Feels vindictive,” he says. “The way this is being done. I’ve been compliant since the word go.”In later interviews, Bush appears more guarded in his responses and in early July, his solicitor reads out a statement in which his client insists he never prevented burials.However,…
O’Connor was favourite heading into the event after the late withdrawal of England’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who beat her to gold in 2022, and she certainly lived up to the billing.The Newry-born athlete led after the first two events on Tuesday. She ran the 100m hurdles in 13.54 seconds and produced a season’s best 1.82m in the high jump.In a rain-soaked evening session she dipped in the shot put, throwing just 12.85 in difficult conditions.While she said she was “gutted” with that performance, she rallied and she bounced back well to run the 200m in a season’s best time of 24.14,…