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Dangerous Buildings Most of the buildings in Tulsi Niketan are in a dilapidated condition and a major accident can happen any time -Photo Umesh Kumar Ghaziabad: The collapse of the Satya Niketan building in Delhi, which has claimed seven lives so far, has once again exposed the risks posed by the city’s growing list of unsafe structures. The city now has more than 150 buildings classified as unsafe or dangerous, up from 26 in a 2018 survey and 102 in 2020.UP govt introduced the Urban Redevelopment Policy 2026, its first policy for redeveloping unsafe and dilapidated buildings, but little has…

Illegal banners put up during the Dahi Handi festival in Pune Pune: The civic body on Sept 5 and 6 removed as many as 822 unauthorised banners and posters installed across civic areas for recently held festivals, including Dahi Handi and Eid-e-Milad. However, according to civic data, no offence was registered against any mandal.Citizens have demanded stricter action, including registration of offences, similar to the action taken against those violating norms on DJs and loudspeakers.“Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has cross-verified the legality of these materials and has taken action accordingly. The administration has acted only to remove them,” said Sandip…

Union home minister Amit Shah checks the Goan ghumat, while CM Pramod Sawant briefs him about the musicial instrument. Shah presented Goa police the President’s Colour, one of the highest honours bestowed upon a police force in India Panaji: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said India’s diplomacy has gained global recognition under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with countries seeking the PM’s views on major global challenges. Shah said Modi had restored prominence to Indian diplomacy after a long time.Shah, who was in Goa on a two-day visit, attended a Western Zonal Council meeting and a Goa Police function…

AI in healthcare The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, celebrate its 63rd Institute Foundation Day on September 7, 2026, commemorating over six decades of excellence in healthcare, medical education, research and service to society. The Foundation Day held at the NINE Auditorium, PGIMER, with Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, as the Chief Guest. Prof. Chaturvedi has dedicated over 25 years to shaping the future of countless students in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. As a former Director of IIT Roorkee, IIT Mandi, and additional charge as Director of…

Lucknow: The export of 25,000 quintals of molasses from Basti has generated nearly USD 5 lakh in foreign exchange earnings, the state govt said on Monday.Notably, molasses falls under a separate tariff classification; therefore, the foreign exchange earned from it is separate from the state’s main excise export figures. Officials said industries linked to agricultural products such as sugarcane and grains in UP are now gaining access not only to local markets but also to global markets. “This has increased opportunities for processing, value addition and market expansion of raw material produced in the fields. The state has an extensive…

Patna: Fear of wild boar attacks is growing in the flood-hit Danapur diara region, with an elderly man and woman injured after being attacked in Dudhiya village under Akilpur panchayat on Monday morning. A seven-year-old girl was killed and around half a dozen people were injured in wild boar attacks reported in the region over the past few days.Prahlad Mahato sustained serious injuries in the latest attack, while Baisakhi Devi was also injured. Both are undergoing treatment at an upgraded middle school in the diara area, where a rural doctor is attending to them.The incidents have heightened concerns among villagers,…

Bari Choupar near kotwali site after 6 years of Jaipur Bomb Blast in Walled City on Tuesday. (Photo- Bhagirath Basnet) Jaipur: Supreme Court Monday refused to suspend the life sentence of two convicts in the 2008 Jaipur serial blasts case linked to the ninth bomb, which was found unexploded and later defused.A bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Prasanna V Varale said the case was too serious to be treated like “an ordinary bail matter”, as it involved “a threat to national security and public safety”.On May 13, 2008, eight of nine bombs planted across Jaipur exploded, killing 70…

Nagpur: In a first such multi-departmental review since the 2024 Assembly elections, the Chief Minister’s Secretariat has convened a meeting on Tuesday to take stock of development and infrastructure works being executed in South-West Nagpur, the Assembly constituency represented by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.The meeting, scheduled at 4pm on September 8 at Hyderabad House, assumes significance in the wake of the July 28 deluge that left several parts of the constituency waterlogged. The Somalwar School area in Khamla was among the worst affected, with students reportedly having to be rescued from the waterlogged campus.The CM Secretariat has directed officials of…

The liquor making facility in the house in Mota Dahisara Rajkot: Acting on specific intelligence, the Local Crime Branch (LCB) of Morbi police dismantled a counterfeit liquor production facility at a house in Mota Dahisara village of Maliya (Miyana) taluka.Police arrested five people at the site and seized chemicals, packaging paraphernalia and a vehicle with an aggregate value of Rs 20.75 lakh.According to police, the crackdown on liquor started in the wake of the hooch tragedy in Bhavnagar which left 13 dead.Police received intelligence that Mahesh alias Munno Kanjiya and Ajaysinh Jadeja were making counterfeit Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) using…

The high court said the nearly eight months the appellant had already spent in custody would be sufficient to meet the ends of justice Ranchi: Jharkhand high court has held that merely entering a woman’s house at night and lifting her clothes does not amount to rape or an attempt to commit rape.Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, while deciding a convict’s criminal appeal on Aug 31, said an act could be treated as attempted rape only when it was sufficiently close to the commission of the offence under the IPC.In the judgment, released on Monday, the court modified the sentence awarded…