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Lucknow: Deployed on traffic duty on Sitapur Road, traffic constable Naveen Chaudhary chased a man who had just slapped a woman and snatched her mangalsutra and moments later took a brick blow to his face from the miscreant.Undeterred by the pain of the injury, Chaudhary did not let go of the chain-snatcher.Other policemen reached to help and the snatcher, Dharmendra Kumar Maurya, 23, was overpowered. The broken chain of the woman’s mangalsutra was recovered from him. Befitting finale to this episode on Friday, the day of Raksha Bandhan, was the woman tying a rakhi on Chaudhary’s wrist and thanking him…
Patna: Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) has recorded 100% placement for its 17th PGDM batch (2024–26), with all 120 students who opted for campus recruitment securing job offers amid an increasingly competitive management recruitment landscape.As many as 51 organisations participated, with 41 companies making final offers. The institute highlighted the addition of 29 new recruiters this year, expanding its corporate network and the range of roles offered to graduating students.ICICI Bank was the largest recruiter, followed by Reliance Consumer Products, Indigo Paints and Jal Jeevan Hariyali Mission. Other prominent recruiters included Tata Advanced Systems, Grant Thornton Bharat, Havells India,…
Jhunjhunu: Four people were injured in a clash between two groups that had come to file nominations for the municipal body elections in Fatehpur Shekhawati of Sikar district Monday, the last day for filing nominations.Police arrested four people for breach of peace. One of the seriously injured was referred to Sikar after receiving primary treatment at the Fatehpur Trauma Centre.Police said the clash broke out when candidates and their supporters came face to face after filing their nomination papers. The groups allegedly attacked each other with sticks, triggering chaos at the spot.Police reached the scene and took four people into…
Amravati: A tigress, not a tiger, had killed a farmer recently in Bhambora agricultural area of Morshi tehsil and movement of the same big cat is causing panic in neighbouring Teosa tehsil, prompting the Forest Department to issue an alert for both areas.On Sunday, the tigress killed a cow in Kawthal area near the Morshi-Teosa border, causing anxiety among villagers living close to forest patches.An alert has been sounded in Kawthal, Rajurwadi and surrounding villages in Teosa. Residents of Karajgaon, Dapori, Sarsi, Varuda, Javra, Fatehpur and Satargaon, particularly farmers venturing into fields near forest areas, have been advised to remain…
Around 10 metric tonnes of the fruit are being aggregated for dispatch to Assam Ranchi: Women pear growers in Latehar’s Netarhat are finding new markets through organised buyers, reducing their dependence on local traders and wholesale mandis.Nearly five metric tonnes of pears have already been sold, while another 10 metric tonnes are being aggregated for dispatch to Assam. Under the initiative, produce from women-led farmer producer organisations is collectively gathered, graded, checked for quality, packaged and transported to organised retail chains.The SETU cell, which creates market linkages for rural producers, has connected the women’s groups with Agri Arjuna and Tincture…
Surat: A man was been murdered in the middle of traffic on Jilani Bridge in the Chowk Bazaar police station jurisdiction at 8.30pm on Tuesday. Faizal Fatta, a resident of Rander, was on on his vehicle when four unknown persons stopped him and hacked him to death before fleeing. Fatta was rushed to hospital but was declared death. Preliminaries inquiries revealed that he was a property dealer. Chowk Bazaar police launched an investigation and have formed teams to nab the killers. Source link
The stranded shepherds and sheep Varanasi: Twelve shepherds and more than 2,000 sheep, stranded after a sudden rise in the Ganga’s water level turned an area near Duhia Saraiya village in Ghazipur into an island, were safely rescued after a nearly six-hour-long operation by the PAC flood company, police and local boatmen late on Sunday.The shepherds and their flock were stranded in an area near Duhia Saraiya village under Suhwal police station as the rising Ganga waters cut off the area. Police deployed drones equipped with night-vision cameras to locate the stranded shepherds and sheep amid darkness and overcast conditions.Ghazipur…
The petitioners sought an independent inquiry into the PhD process and urged govt to direct KU to award the degree if no procedural impediment was found Thiruvananthapuram: A group of students and research scholars from the University of Kerala’s (KU) department of Sanskrit studies has submitted a petition to higher education minister Roji M John, seeking urgent intervention in the case of dalit researcher Vipin Vijayan, who was allegedly denied a PhD despite completing all prescribed academic stages.According to the petition, Vijayan completed the research admission process, progress assessments, synopsis presentation, periodic reviews and thesis submission. His thesis was also…
Calcutta High Court on Monday declined urgent hearing of Bengal cricketer Abishek Porel, arrested for alleged rape Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday declined urgent hearing of Bengal cricketer Abishek Porel, arrested for alleged rape, stating that “the allegations are serious” and asked him to move HC for bail after the lower court rejected it.His counsel Moyukh Mukherjee mentioned the matter before Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. “The HC had directed the apprehension of a private person for the purpose of seizure of electronic devices,” Mukherjee submitted, adding that Porel has been in custody since his arrest on the intervening night of…
Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai. Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai, who led a last-ditch effort to resist the Taliban takeover in 2021, now drives an Uber in Washington DC after being granted asylum in the US.In an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Alizai spoke about his final days in Afghanistan, his evacuation by US forces and his life as an immigrant in the US.Alizai, the last chief of staff of the Afghan army, fled Afghanistan in August 2021 as the US military was completing its withdrawal. He had been trying to form a resistance against the Taliban when…