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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party corporator-elect Lalit Kishore Tiwari will be administered the oath of office on Sunday, days after a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court froze the financial and administrative powers of mayor Sushma Kharkwal over the delay.On Thursday, the HC restrained the mayor from exercising financial and administrative authority after she failed to administer the oath to Tiwari, elected from Ward 73 (Faizullaganj). Under the order, the mayor could neither approve expenditure nor take disciplinary action against civic staff.The development followed legal advice sought by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) from advocate Prashant Singh Atal on Friday. He…
Patna: The RJD on Saturday criticised CM Samrat Choudhary over his remark that AI-enabled cameras could identify people wearing a “hara gamchha”.The comment was widely seen as an indirect political swipe at the RJD, whose members and supporters are often associated with green gamchhas. The opposition party said such remarks were inappropriate from the dais of an official programme and risked sending a divisive political message.RJD national spokesperson Manoj Jha said the CM’s statement could not be dismissed as harmless satire or casual political humour. He said in Bihar’s politically sensitive atmosphere, references to a gamchha of a particular colour…
Jaisalmer: Union home and cooperative affairs minister Amit Shah Friday honoured BSF deputy commandant Ravindra Rathore, deployed at the Sriganganagar Sector of BSF Rajasthan Frontier, along with three other BSF personnel and officers, with the gallantry medal at the Border Security Force Investiture Ceremony and Rustamji Memorial Lecture programme in New Delhi. The gallantry medal announcement was made on the previous Independence Day.Official BSF sources said that last year in May, on the international border adjoining Sriganganagar in Rajasthan, deputy commandant Ravindra Rathore and his team members inspector Devi Lal, head constable Sahib Singh and constable Kanwaraj Singh displayed extraordinary…
Akola: In Akola, one of Maharashtra’s hottest districts where temperatures soar past 47°C, Kavatha, a village in Balapur taluka, doesn’t have a drinking water source since 50 years. Nearly 2,500 villagers scoop muddy seepage from shallow pits and cracked riverbeds to collect water for survival. Hand pumps have gone dry, wells have failed. The only remaining source is the trickle of water that seeps through the sand after digging makeshift pits in the riverbed. Kavatha is Maharashtra’s dark underbelly, where the state govt claims to be close to the $1trillion economy target.Kavatha stands as a stark symbol of systemic failure…
Varanasi: Scorching heat coupled with strong surface winds continued to grip the holy city of Varanasi on Saturday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a heat wave warning and forecasting “strong surface winds during daytime” over the next few days.According to the IMD, the maximum temperature in the city was recorded at 44.7 degrees Celsius, nearly 3.9 degrees above normal, while the minimum temperature settled at 28.6 degrees Celsius, around 2 degrees above the seasonal average.The day began with clear skies, but the intensity of the heat increased steadily as the hours passed. Hot winds started sweeping through the…
T’puram: Kattakada police on Saturday arrested a 50-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a person with learning difficulties at Kattakkada KSRTC bus stand on May 10. The accused, identified as Shibu alias Bruce Lee Shibu, had been absconding since the incident. The arrest took place based on the tip off.According to police, the assault took place around 1am while the woman was sleeping on a bench near the station master’s office at the stand. KSRTC staff on duty noticed the man behaving suspiciously near the woman and questioned him, following which he left the premises.Earlier, the incident surfaced after police…
Kolkata: The state govt has dissolved the Contai Municipality board to end a prolonged administrative stalemate and ensure uninterrupted civic services. Contai SDO Pratik Ashok Dumal has been appointed administrator until a new board is formed. The notification reached his office on Friday. Source link
Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that the agency was aware of “reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW” and are “working to corroborate the information with personnel on the ground”. Source link
“I tried to book an MOT test recently for my husband’s work vans, and to be honest it’s months away, and then we are afraid driving around with no MOT, and then I have to go on every morning to see if there is a cancellation in Newry, but sometimes my husband ends up having to go to Lisburn or Downpatrick, just to get an MOT,” Bennett said. Source link
The Swedish pop star treated the crowds to back-to-back, high-energy pop bangers on day two of the festival. Source link