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Guwahati: On-ground work for the Maa Kamakhya Temple Access Corridor Project has begun on Nilachal Hills.Authorities have started relocating business establishments and demolishing structures that fall within the project area. A PWD official said preliminary work began earlier, but “the on-ground construction work started this week.”About 15 families within the corridor alignment zone will require temporary relocation, officials said.The project moved ahead after the Gauhati high court , in a Feb judgment , allowed state govt to proceed with the corridor. A division bench of Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury said there was no embargo on…
Kanpur: A 60-year-old man died hours after undergoing an intestine surgery at a private hospital in Kanpur, triggering a protest by his family, who alleged medical negligence and created a ruckus on the hospital premises late Wednesday.Police reached the New Shubh Hospital on Purana Shivli Road after receiving a Dial-112 call, pacified the agitated relatives and have initiated an investigation.Vikram, a resident of Durgapurwa under Nawabganj police station limits, said his father, Satyanarayan Nishad (60), had been suffering from severe abdominal pain and gas formation and was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. After examination, doctors advised surgery, saying he…
Ludhiana: Three members of a Machhiwara-based family were killed and two others suffered critical injuries after the SUV they were travelling in collided head-on with a canter truck near Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday morning, while they were on their way back to Punjab.The deceased included 65-year-old Santokh Singh Bajwa, a commission agent (arhtiya) and sheller unit owner from Irak village near Machhiwara; Harjeet Singh, 60, of Hadiwal village; and Bhupinder Kaur. The injured, Mukand Singh Bainipal and his nephew Ladi Singh, are undergoing treatment.Sources said Bainipal owns agricultural land in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, and has business interests…
Mangaluru: CCB sleuths of the Mangaluru City Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers and seized 5.1 kg of MDMA worth an estimated Rs 5.2 crore.The accused were intercepted in Bagalkot district while allegedly transporting the narcotics from Delhi to Bengaluru as part of a larger interstate drug supply network.City police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH told reporters Thursday that the breakthrough came during the investigation of an earlier case registered at Surathkal police station.On June 25, acting on credible information, Mangaluru CCB raided a house near Kulaigudde Water Tank in Surathkal and arrested Annappa Swamy alias Manu, who was allegedly…
Mandya: The state govt on Thursday released 500 cusecs of water from the KRS reservoir into the Visvesvaraya Canal (VC) to replenish lakes and ponds and ensure drinking water, in the Cauvery command area. The govt has clarified that the release is exclusively for drinking water purposes and not for irrigation, directing farmers not to utilise the water for agriculture.The decision follows sustained protests by farmers across Mandya district, who were demanding the immediate release of water into the canal network to protect standing crops, particularly sugarcane, from the prolonged dry spell.Speaking to TOI, K Raghuram, superintendent engineer, KRS dam,…
The Authority has already allotted 120 industrial plots for the park Noida: The medical device park coming up in Sector 28 will be a “major manufacturing hub”, providing an end-to-end MedTech ecosystem in north India, Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) additional CEO Shailendra Bhatia told an investors’ meet on Thursday.“The Authority has already allotted 120 industrial plots and over 20 companies have started construction of their manufacturing units,” Bhatia told a gathering at MedTech Investors’ Meet at India Expo Mart.Spread over 350 acres, the park is located 3km from Noida International Airport, connecting it to global and domestic markets.It…
Pune: A 65-year-old building contractor was found hanging from the ceiling fan at around 8 am on Thursday in his house at Gultekdi, Market Yard.He purportedly wrote two suicide notes naming five persons, including a BJP worker, the wife of a former MLA and others, the Swargate police said.Senior inspector Yashwant Nikam of Swargate police told TOI, “He pasted these notes on the wall of his house. These notes state his financial transactions and property deals with five different persons, including a builder. After studying the notes and studying the circumstances, we can confirm that it is a case of…
NEET New Delhi: NEET UG 2026 Re-Exam Panaji: Saloni Utagi was declared the Goa state topper by the National Testing Agency (NTA) at the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) results 2026, declared late on Thursday evening. Utagi scored 99.84 percentile and had an all India rank of 3033.Of 11.21 lakh candidates qualified in NEET (UG) 58 per cent are women. Utagi was only among 13 female candidates declared state or UT toppers in the country. Source link
Panchkula: To curb malaria and dengue during the monsoon season, the health department has issued notices to several households where mosquito larvae were detected during inspections.District malaria officer Dr Sonu Arora said a special campaign is under way in all high-risk areas of the district. Health workers are conducting door-to-door surveys, inspecting water containers and issuing notices wherever mosquito breeding is found.He said pamphlets on preventive measures are being distributed under IEC (Information, Education and Communication) activities, while residents are being educated about health safety. Dr Arora shared the campaign details with deputy commissioner Satpal Sharma during a review meeting…
Lucknow: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered around ₹40 lakh in unaccounted cash and nearly 180 grams of gold during searches at 16 locations across West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and other places as part of a money laundering probe into an alleged terror funding and illegal infiltration network.The searches were carried out on July 16 by the ED’s Lucknow Zonal Office under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, registered in 2024.The money laundering investigation stems from an FIR registered by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) on Oct 11, 2023, alleging the…