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Naresh Chandra PattanayakKeonjhar: More than 50,000 devotees on Thursday witnessed Rath Yatra of Lord Sri Sri Baladevjew, one of the oldest car festivals in Odisha. They pulled the 72-foot-tall chariot, Nandighosha, carrying Lord Baladevjew, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath, along the 1-km-long Bada Danda from Sri Baladevjew Temple to Sri Gundicha Temple.Grand Road turned into a sea of humanity as devotees thronged the route for a glimpse of the deities. The festival also offered a rare sight of Devi Subhadra, whose idol is red in Keonjhar, unlike the yellow-coloured deity worshipped in Puri and most other places.Earlier in the day,…
They are part of the 100 e-buses sanctioned for the city Gurgaon: The city bus service is set to get a boost. The first lot of 25 air-conditioned electric buses would be delivered “within seven days”, Gurgaon Metropolitan City Bus Limited (GMCBL) officials said on Thursday.The timeline was given by the concessionaire during a review meeting chaired by ministry of housing and urban affairs.The buses — part of the 100 e-buses sanctioned for the city under the Centre’s PM e-Bus Sewa Phase-I scheme — are expected to strengthen the city’s limited public transport network, which has long struggled with an…
Silchar: Sribhumi police seized 5,800 suspected Yaba tablets near the India-Bangladesh border in Patharkandi on Wednesday night.Acting on intelligence, a Patharkandi police team set up a naka near the Lakshmipur gram panchayat office and intercepted an auto-rickshaw. A search led to the recovery of the tablets concealed in the vehicle, police said.Police seized the tablets, the auto-rickshaw and a mobile phone in the presence of witnesses. Afsar Alam, 20, of Banglatila under Patharkandi police station, was arrested and booked under the NDPS Act. He is being questioned to trace the consignment’s source and the smuggling network.Afsar Alam, 20, in police…
Kanpur: After enduring a day of sultry and oppressive weather, residents of Kanpur received much-needed relief on Thursday evening as light rain accompanied by a dust storm brought down temperatures across the city.According to Automatic Weather Station, the city recorded 7.8 mm of rainfall during the evening. During the day, Kanpur recorded a maximum temperature of 36.6 degrees Celsius, which was 0.5 degrees Celsius lower than Wednesday’s maximum. The minimum temperature settled at 27.4 degrees Celsius, slightly above normal, while night temperatures remained close to seasonal averages.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had earlier issued an alert predicting moderate rainfall accompanied…
CM will review development projects in Muradnagar and Modinagar assembly constituencies Ghaziabad: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath is set to visit Ghaziabad on Friday to unveil a statue of former state minister Rajpal Tyagi in Muradnagar and address a public meeting at KPC Degree College campus. The visit comes ahead of the annual Kanwar Yatra, when lakhs of devotees are expected to pass through Ghaziabad and neighbouring districts.Officials said the administration has stepped up security, traffic management and crowd-control measures for the chief minister’s programme. Arrangements have also been made to ensure smooth movement of devotees and minimise disruption to the…
Sharad Pawar, Sunetra Pawar PUNE: Unease has surfaced in NCP following indications of Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) tilting towards NDA.”If Pawar’s party joins NDA, the political equations will drastically change more in the state than the country. Some MLAs are sceptical about the party losing its importance if NCP (SP) overpowers it after joining the alliance,” an NCP MLA told TOI.The speculations of NCP (SP) tilting towards NDA gained momentum after NCP (SP)’s former state president Jayant Patil Patil held two meetings with BJP seniors – chief minister Fadnavis and the party’s national general secretary Vinod Tawde – within less…
Panaji: RG accused its lone MLA Viresh Borkar of doing nothing to mend the schism and restore unity within the party cadre. RG treasurer Ajay Kholkar on Thursday said that it was Borkar who created a separate faction within the party.“He does not want to solve anything. He says that he is protesting,” said Kholkar. “It is Viresh who has made a separate group. The party is intact, all of us are together and our work is going on. RG as a party is still alive and it is only Viresh who has made a separate group.”Borkar and the party’s…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday handed over licences to 2,800 new ration depot holders, saying the move would benefit nearly 5.5 lakh ration card holders by bringing ration distribution closer to their homes.Addressing the newly appointed depot holders at Vikas Bhawan in Mohali, Mann said the additional depots would spare beneficiaries from travelling long distances or missing work to collect their monthly ration, while strengthening the state’s public distribution system.Claiming the allotment process was transparent, Mann said the licences were distributed with representation across social groups. Of the 2,800 licences, 633 were allotted to scheduled castes, 199…
Lucknow: Ending a seven-year manhunt, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested Monu Yadav alias Abhimanyu Yadav, a ₹50,000 reward-carrying fugitive wanted since 2019 in the abduction, murder and robbery of a taxi driver in Lucknow.He was arrested from Didwana in Rajasthan, where he was allegedly living under concealment and working at a private industrial unit, the STF said.Officials said Yadav was wanted in Case Crime No. 412/2019 registered at Sarojini Nagar police station under IPC Sections 364 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 394 (robbery), 414 (assisting in concealment of stolen property), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention). Acting on…
Patna: With the monsoon season progressing and flood risks persisting in north Bihar, the road construction department (RCD) and disaster management department (DMD) on Thursday reviewed preparedness measures to tackle potential flood and drought situations.RCD secretary Pankaj Kumar Pal directed officials and contractors to ensure protection of roads and bridges under the maintenance policy. Contractors have been asked to keep Bailey bridges ready, arrange temporary restoration measures in case of erosion or breaches, and maintain round-the-clock vigil on vulnerable stretches.Engineer-in-chief Umakant Rajak said teams from the RCD, Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation and IIT-Patna are jointly assessing the condition of…