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Ajmer: Private schools across Ajmer remained closed Wednesday as their management staged a protest demanding the release of pending reimbursements under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. They also submitted a memorandum to the district collector, addressed to the chief minister, warning of a larger agitation if their demands are not met.Under the banner of the Rajasthan Niji Shikshan Sangharsh Samiti, the protesters gathered at the collectorate and sought immediate clearance of RTE dues, under which private schools provide free education to eligible students and are reimbursed by the state govt.Samiti president Kailash Sharma said the organisation also demanded an…
Wardha police and officers from local crime branch collect clues from the crime spot Wardha: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly hammered to death with a boulder on Wednesday night in the Rotha area of Wardha district, where police suspect the minor girl was sexually assaulted before being murdered. Her body was found in a pool of blood with a skull smashed.As per preliminary information, the girl returned home from a nearby zilla parishad school in the afternoon and was alone when she was attacked. The victim’s clothes were found discarded inside a farm storage shed, while the girl was found…
Ranchi: State chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar on Wednesday urged all eligible voters to submit their filled and signed enumeration forms to respective booth level officers by July 19. He said that BLOs completed door-to-door distribution of enumeration forms to around 96% of voters listed in the current electoral rolls within the scheduled time.The remaining voters may include those in the ASDD list. Kumar said the meeting of BLOs and booth level agents-2 during the enumeration phase will be held at all polling stations on July 22 to finalise the ASDD list before the draft roll publication on…
Surat: A 22-year-old married woman allegedly died by suicide after being relentlessly blackmailed by her husband’s friend, who allegedly secretly recorded her while she was bathing and demanded money to prevent the nude video from being circulated.Kapodra police have booked the accused for abetment to suicide.The victim has been living with her husband in the Kapodra area since their marriage in Feb this year. According to the police complaint, the accused, a close friend of her husband who lived on the upper floor of the same residential society, frequently visited their house.About four months ago, the accused allegedly recorded a…
Gorakhpur: A juvenile escaped from police custody from the district hospital in Gorakhpur on Wednesday morning after allegedly pushing two policemen during a routine medical examination.The accused, a resident of the Rajghat area, was apprehended around 15 days ago in connection with a theft case and was subsequently sent to a juvenile correction home.On Wednesday, three juveniles were brought to the district hospital at around 11am for a routine health check-up under police escort.Preliminary inquiries suggest that instead of taking the juveniles individually for examination, two policemen were escorting all three together.Taking advantage of the lapse, one of the juveniles…
Mamata Banerjee (File Photo) KOLKATA: Had she gone for some “setting”, neither she nor her party would have been forced “to face torment”, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. In a Facebook Live session, the former CM said she had never compromised on her principles and will never do so. Banerjee said she would start her political struggle anew this year.“If I had done some setting for myself, I wouldn’t have had to put up with this torment. But I have not sold my conscience for political survival,” said Banerjee before apologising to the people on behalf of “traitors”.…
The US House of Representatives has voted to make daylight saving time permanent by passing the Sunshine Protection Act on Tuesday.With a 308-117 vote, members of both parties approved the bill, which would remove the need for Americans to change their clocks twice a year and put the US under time currently observed between March and November – known as permanent standard time.Now that the House has passed the legislation, the Senate could soon take up its version of the bill. However, its future there is uncertain.The BBC talked to people in Washington DC about their take on putting a…
Temperatures are set to drop across the UK this weekend after a spell of intensely hot weather – marking an end to heatwave conditions for some. Fresher northerly winds will cause readings to fall by several degrees in some locations, with a significant cooldown in store for parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.However, it will continue to be warmer than average in much of the UK, including southern England where the heatwave threshold has now been met or exceeded for 12 consecutive days.Despite the break from the heat, there is still no sign of significant rain in the…
A whale skeleton that is nearly 120 years old has returned to a museum in Hull, England. This time, visitors will be able to do more than just look at it. The 40-foot-long skeleton, made up of 168 bones, was removed from Hull Maritime Museum in 2020 for cleaning and conservation. As reported by BBC, it spent six years in storage while the museum was being refurbished. Now, it has been put back on display in the museum’s new Age of Sail gallery by specialist whale conservator Nigel Larkin. The museum is due to reopen in August, with the whale…
The feud between Ian Botham and Ben Stokes refuses to end anytime soon, and the matter escalated recently after the former took a dig of some sorts at the former England Test captain. During the 1st ODI between India and England at Edgbaston, Birmingham, Sir Ian Botham reignited his public disagreement with Stokes, jokingly welcoming the recently retired all-rounder into the “has-beens” club. The dispute between the two dates back to England’s Ashes preparations in Perth last November. Ben Stokes fires back at Ian Botham (Action Images via Reuters)Under Stokes’s leadership, England opted for an internal practice match at a…