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Mysuru: It’s official. Mysuru voter count will come down by 5.6 lakh from the existing 27.9 lakh.Narasimharaja constituency will have the highest deletion of 99,000-plus voters followed by Krishnaraja 86,000, Chamaraja 85,000 and Chamundeshwari 75,000 voters. This will bring down the total voters’ count to under 2.3 lakh (from 3.3 lakh) in Narasimharaja and under 2.8 lakh (from existing 3.6 lakh) in Chamundeshwari.The lowest deletion of voters is in Periyapatna constituency with just 22,800 voters.SIR commenced in Mysuru on June 30 when Mysuru had 27,99,693 voters and the process was completed on Aug 17 with the names of 55,7,184 voters…

The move comes after 60 school buses in the district were issued notices last month for lacking safety provisions Ghaziabad: The district administration has made character verification and health examinations mandatory for school vehicle drivers, officials said. The decision was taken at a meeting of the special district school vehicle transport safety committee.A police character certificate or police clearance certificate (PCC) states whether a person has any criminal record or pending legal cases. It is commonly required for international travel, visa applications, employment background checks or govt services. These certificates for bus drivers so far had been optional.Assistant regional transport…

Pune: At one of its first presentations to the public, using a high-tech piece of software, city traffic police on Tuesday painted a rather grim picture of the state of infrastructure in Pune.The city’s municipal limits, data showed, has grown a whopping 330% in the last 30 years. Its road network now covers only 8%; it should be 15%, and public transport coverage stands at 11% when it should be 50%. Worse, the city is adding 1,300 new vehicles daily with traffic volume on roads now at 81 lakh compared to 52 lakh in 2018.The data, officials said, underscores a…

Colva: Additional sessions judge Ram S Prabhu Dessai on Tuesday denied bail to Mangala alias Vaibhavi Sidnal, who was arrested by Colva police in March 2024 for allegedly killing her husband, Vishwanath Sindal, in connivance with Suraj Myageri on the eve of Holi.The prosecution relied on the testimony of the prime witness, the accused’s minor daughter, who was six years old at the time of the incident. The judge observed that in her deposition, the child had clearly stated that both accused assaulted her father with a spade on his head and other parts of his body. She also deposed…

Financial commissioner, revenue and disaster management, Sumita Misra Chandigarh: Haryana govt has announced its 100% stamp duty exemption on lifetime transfer of immovable property within blood relations also covers grandchildren through daughters — a benefit that had been held up by a wording ambiguity in the Hindi version of a 2014 notification.The clarification, issued through a corrigendum, puts ‘dohata-dohati/nati-natin’ on an equal footing with a son’s children and is expected to end confusion at sub-registrar offices over such property transfers.Financial commissioner, revenue and disaster management, Dr Sumita Misra said govt had issued the corrigendum to remove the long-standing ‘linguistic ambiguity’…

file photo of CEO SACHIS UP Archana Verma Lucknow: As many as 866 hospitals associated with Ayushman Bharat have invited action from the govt over alleged irregularities and lapses in treatment of Ayushman card holders since 2020, an official spokesperson said on Tuesday.The action includes de-empanelling of 648 hospitals and suspension of 61 hospitals. The action, taken on the directions of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, also includes de-empanelment of specific specialties in 17 hospitals.Besides, 140 hospitals have been penalised a cumulative Rs 8.53 crore over the last two financial years, of which more than Rs 4.37 crore has been recovered,…

State-level workshop on ‘Livelihood best practices: Lakhpati didi’ being inaugurated on Tuesday Patna: The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (Jeevika), in association with Grant Thornton Bharat, organised a state-level workshop on “Livelihood best practices: Lakhpati didi” on Tuesday, focusing on strengthening women-led enterprises and creating sustainable market linkages.The workshop discussed individual and collective entrepreneurship models in agriculture, livestock and non-farm sectors, along with business planning, enterprise management and increasing the number of Lakhpati Didis.In her address, Jeevika additional chief executive officer Ananya Singh said establishing an enterprise was only the first milestone and the focus now should be on ensuring…

Jaipur: The state education department will conduct rigorous gender-sensitisation training for teachers after suspending three govt schoolteachers in a week over student complaints of inappropriate physical contact and misconduct.Officials, Tuesday, said the training would stress appropriate boundaries while interacting with students. The department is also considering an anonymous complaint mechanism allowing students to report ‘bad touch’ incidents directly to the headquarters, bypassing school administrations.Additional chief secretary for education Rajesh Yadav said, “The department takes all such complaints very seriously and immediate action is taken against teachers. However, such incidents must not take place in schools.”He added, “Now, rigorous trainings will…

Nagpur: Four years after the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) opened its Hindi Journalism programme at Amravati, the course has been discontinued after attracting no students this academic year.The Hindi programme had a sanctioned intake of 30 students but recorded zero admissions this year. The centre’s two other journalism programmes are also running substantially below capacity, with nine students in English Journalism and 10 in Marathi Journalism against 30 sanctioned seats each. The English programme, according to information available, continued after two students from outside the centre were admitted, taking its strength to 11.IIMC-Amravati regional director Raj Singh Kushwaha…

Rajkot: A woman has been booked for allegedly assaulting her six-year-old daughter at the Old Housing Board area of Junagadh after the child accidentally wet the bed.The incident came to light after neighbours recorded the assault on their mobile phones and alerted the Child Helpline. Acting on the information, a Child Helpline team reached the residence near Ramnath Temple.According to the police complaint filed by Sheetal Maru, a coordinator with the Child Helpline, the child told the team that her mother had brutally assaulted her. The girl had visible marks on several parts of her body, prompting the team to…