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Mangaluru: The department of personnel and administrative reforms has appointed Rahul Ratnam Pandey as the new commissioner for the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) with immediate effect.Pandey, a 2018 batch IAS officer, who was the managing director of Karnataka State Medical Supplies Corporation Limited (KSMSCL), Bengaluru, has been posted as the commissioner of the MCC, replacing Ravichandra Naik, who has been transferred. Source link

BARNALA: Barnala DSP Satbir Singh has been suspended following allegations of a brutal lathi charge on protesting sanitation workers, including women. The officer was suspended under Rule 4(1)(a) of the Punjab Civil Services (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1970, following an inquiry conducted by the Patiala Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG). According to a brief order issued by the office of the Director General of Police (DGP), Satbir Singh’s headquarters during the suspension period will be the 4th Commando Battalion in SAS Nagar. Sanitation workers and leaders of various political parties had demanded strict action against the DSP, alleging that he…

Women lead Banda’s pulse processing industry (Photo: Agencies) Banda district, situated in the heart of Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, has long been recognized as one of the state’s major pulse-producing areas. Chickpea (gram), pigeon pea (arhar), lentil (masoor), black gram (urad), and green gram (moong) are cultivated extensively across the district’s rain-fed farmlands.Despite this rich agricultural base, for many decades the greatest share of profits from pulse cultivation remained outside the villages. Farmers, particularly women engaged in agriculture, were largely confined to harvesting, cleaning, and manual post-harvest activities, while processing, branding, packaging, and marketing were controlled by traders and large…

Patna: The five-day monsoon session of the Bihar Assembly concluded on Friday with Speaker Prem Kumar describing it as highly productive. In his valedictory address, the Speaker said the House passed 20 Bills during the session, including two that were approved unanimously.Assembly proceedings remained largely smooth and peaceful throughout the session, except for an unscheduled adjournment of the morning sitting on the final day. The treasury and opposition benches cooperated in the passage of most legislative business, enabling the government to complete its agenda without major disruptions.However, the session witnessed a brief confrontation during discussions on the first supplementary budget…

Nagpur: Even as the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) 100-day anti-encroachment campaign has struggled to keep the city’s footpaths and public spaces free from illegal occupation by hawkers and vendors, the civic administration has now constituted a high-level multi-agency committee to intensify the drive.Acting on directions issued by Maharashtra revenue minister and Nagpur guardian minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule during the District Planning Committee meeting held on July 20, municipal commissioner Vipin Itankar has formed a new multi-level committee comprising officials from various govt departments to tackle the issue.The committee, headed by Itankar, comprises senior officials from Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), Nagpur Police,…

Hazaribag: Two alleged active members of the Rahul Dubey gang were arrested after encounter with police near Bukru village under Keredari police station limits in the early hours of Friday. One of them sustained a bullet injury in his right leg during the exchange of fire. A country-made pistol, a motorcycle and three mobile phones were recovered from them.Hazaribag SP Aman Kumar said the operation was launched based on inputs that two armed criminals on a motorcycle were moving near the transport route of the Chandragupt Coal Mining Project and the Bukru-Pachra Road barrier. Police suspected the duo had arrived…

KOLKATA: Environmental activist Subhas Datta wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking urgent intervention over the prolonged absence of a regular Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal in Kolkata, warning that the vacuum is delaying adjudication of critical ecological disputes across eastern India, the Northeast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.In his letter, Datta pointed out that the bench, which covers some of the country’s most eco-sensitive regions, has for years functioned without a regular schedule. Matters, he alleged, are often taken up only after the principal bench proceedings in Delhi are over, leaving little time for detailed…

Many people have experienced diarrhoea.So when it hit Nick Palmiter at the beginning of July, he didn’t think much of it.”I’ll be alright,” he said to himself.But symptoms persisted. And as days turned into weeks, the stomach cramps became unbearable.”I was absolutely in pain,” Palmiter said. “And it was just to the point to where I was probably using the bathroom at least 15 to 20 times a day.”The 29-year-old described the sensation as a constant pressure and bubbling, “almost like you have a balloon in your stomach”.At the urging of a coworker, he finally visited an urgent care facility…

Sandy McCook, chairman of Nethy Community Council, said he had witnessed “major flare-up” on Mam Suim, Craig nan Gall and into Strath Nethy on Thursday evening.He said: “The wind has picked up considerably and turned to a more westerly direction driving the fire eastwards.”Let’s hope for a drop in the wind and sufficient rain in the coming days to really make a difference.”The Cairngorms National Park covers 1,748 sq miles (4,527 sq km) and includes parts of five local authorities – Aberdeenshire, Angus, Highland, Moray and Perth & Kinross.Closed and restricted areas include paths around Glenmore, Loch Morlich and Badaguish,…

French authorities have ordered the evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on the south-west coast, with hundreds of people escaping the area by boat.Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the tourism destination west of Bordeaux, as firefighters continue to battle wildfires that have raged in the Gironde region for days.Meanwhile, the government in Spain has declared a national emergency as wildfires burn out of control in several areas. Source link