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The car – XUV 300 – which was speeding claimed Babul’s life Gurgaon: A hit-and-run claimed the life of a man who was riding a bicycle when a speeding car – XUV 300 – hit him from behind in Sector 29 on Monday evening.Police said that 35-year-old Babul Hussain, a part-time employee at a private company, was on his cycle near Leisure Valley Park when the accident took place around 4 pm. He sustained serious injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment, during which he died.Police reached the spot after being informed about the accident and took the…

Schoolgirls walk under an umbrella as they walk in the rain in Guwahati Guwahati: Assam and Arunachal Pradesh recorded deficient monsoon rainfall despite widespread flooding across the northeast.The contradiction was also evident in upper Assam, where Sivasagar, Golaghat and Jorhat — three of the four districts worst hit by floods over the past two months — recorded below-normal rainfall.“Due to the El Nino impact, overall there has been deficit rainfall in the northeast. The monsoon driving force that has gone to the northeast has been comparatively weaker in the northeast because of the El Nino impact,” said KN Mohan, senior…

Kanpur: Kalyanpur police arrested a man who carried a reward of Rs 10,000, from Mira Road in Thane, Maharashtra on Tuesday. He had been evading arrest for four years in a case of forcing his wife into prostitution.Police traced the accused with the help of a surveillance team. He was produced before a court and sent to jail.A woman from Kalyanpur police station area lodged a complaint in 2022 against her husband, a resident of Bartalla in Kolkata. She said that they were married on May 2, 2022.The woman alleged that her husband and her in-laws were demanding more dowry…

Noida: Noida Authority is set to appoint an agency to implement its Safe City project, under which 1,949 CCTV cameras will be installed at 561 locations across the city. The surveillance network is aimed at strengthening security, traffic management and emergency response. Noida CEO Krishna Karunesh said a request for proposal (RFP) would be issued soon.The Safe City project, set to come up at a cost of Rs 212 crore, will feature an integrated ICT-based surveillance and monitoring system covering residential and commercial areas, industrial sectors and key public places. The project will also include intelligent traffic management systems, emergency…

Pune: Madhur Kishore found her name in the draft electoral roll, but the BLO had told her she would be flagged as unmapped. Seema Rahatani’s change of name after marriage can result in a ‘logical discrepancy’ when her details are matched with older electoral records. SS Chavan can also be called for a hearing over the small age difference between him and his son.An unmapped voter is one whose current electoral record could not be linked to the relevant earlier electoral roll, particularly the 2002 roll. Logical discrepancies include change of names for women before and after marriage or the…

Panaji: Goa govt is stepping up efforts to identify and acquire historical records relating to the state held in public and private archives in Portugal, with plans to nominate a nodal officer to coordinate the process of bringing Goa-related archival documents from Lisbon.Chief minister and archives minister Pramod Sawant disclosed this in a reply to an unstarred LAQ tabled by opposition leader Yuri Alemao. He said Goa would soon appoint a nodal officer to coordinate with the ministry of external affairs and the Indian embassy in Lisbon on accessing the records.Sawant had written to external affairs minister S Jaishankar on…

Gurpreet Singh Bhullar is the new border range IG Chandigarh: Punjab govt on Tuesday transferred 20 police officers, including eight IPS officers, appointing new senior superintendents of police (SSPs) in six districts and posting Gurpreet Singh Bhullar as border range inspector general (IG).Bhullar had been awaiting posting since he was removed as Amritsar police commissioner on Aug 7 amid a controversy over his remarks on an alleged Pakistan ISI-backed terror conspiracy to target a Jantar Mantar protest.Border range DIG Harmanbir Singh, who had been given additional charge as Amritsar police commissioner after Bhullar’s removal, has now been relieved of the…

28-year-old farmer, Ram Singh, was killed in a leopard attack in Bahraich early Tuesday morning Lucknow: A 28-year-old farmer was killed in a leopard attack after the animal dragged him away from the verandah of his house in Mahboobnagar village under Kakaraha forest range in Bahraich early Tuesday morning.According to Katarniaghat divisional forest officer (DFO) Apoorv Dixit, Ram Singh, a farmer, was sleeping on a cot in the verandah outside his house when the leopard attacked him around 3 am and dragged him away.Hearing the commotion, Singh’s family members and villagers rushed out and searched the area.Singh’s body was found…

Patna: Justice Harish Kumar of Patna high court will head the Bihar govt’s recently constituted Expert Committee on Examination Reforms.The general administration department on Tuesday issued a notification appointing Justice Harish Kumar, a serving judge of the Patna high court, as the chairperson of the committee.The notification follows chief minister Samrat Choudhary’s recent announcement of a high-level committee to restore the credibility of examinations conducted by recruitment bodies and job commissions.The committee has been constituted amid concerns over question paper leaks and protests by students in Patna and other parts of Bihar, as well as in other parts of the…

Jaipur: With BJP expected to mount a strong challenge for control of Jaipur Municipal Corporation, attention has turned to possible contenders for the mayor’s post if the party succeeds in forming the board.BJP’s candidate list includes several politically experienced and organisationally influential leaders, giving the party multiple options for the top civic post. Sources said the Vaishya community appears to have a strong claim, though Brahmin and Rajput leaders could also be considered.Former BJP city president Sunil Kothari and former mayor Jyoti Khandelwal have emerged as front runners, while former deputy mayor Puneet Karnawat and several other experienced members are…