Author: Indmedia
Jaipur: The state govt has sought a week to examine farmers’ demands for cancellation or withdrawal of the proposed Kotputli-Kishangarh Green Field Expressway, with the third round of talks scheduled for Aug 26.The farmers, who have been opposing the project for nearly a year, have also postponed their planned Jaipur demonstration from Aug 24 to Sept 2 following govt’s request for more time.The second round of talks held at the Secretariat Thursday lasted over two hours. The discussions covered the purpose of the project, cost-benefit analysis, social impact assessment report and its management plan, environmental concerns, village culture and connectivity,…
Nagpur: The father of the minor boy, who was behind the wheel in the car crash at Kalamna that killed two of his friends on Aug 12, was arrested on Friday. Earlier, additional Sessions Judge AA Joglekar on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of the boy’s parents.The court observed that the applicants were well aware that their minor son was using the four-wheeler, thereby endangering public life, and suppressed an earlier similar matter in which Motor Vehicles Act provisions were invoked.Kalamna police had registered a case against the father for allowing the minor to drive the family car. Though…
Rajkot: A five-year-old male Asiatic lion was found dead in a farm well on the outskirts of Dhokadva village in Gir Gadhada taluka of Gir Somnath district on Friday.Forest officials recovered the carcass and sent it for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of death. The lion is suspected to have fallen into the well two or three days earlier and drowned.Farm owner Arjan Dangodra noticed a foul smell when he went to the farm to switch on an irrigation pump. On checking the well, he found the lion’s carcass in the water and immediately alerted the forest department.According to…
A candidate must be at least 17 years old, or attain the age by Dec 31 of the year of admission Daltonganj: As many as 85% of undergraduate seats in govt medical colleges in Jharkhand require candidates to produce a residential certificate for admission.The residential certificate criteria issued by the Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (JCECEB) state that applicants must be “citizens of India”. However, unlike the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, where voters are required to prove their citizenship, MBBS aspirants are not required to submit any additional document for this purpose.Candidates only need to provide…
Surat: A 21-year-old autorickshaw driver has been sentenced to 20 years in jail after being convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl.The incident took place in September 2023 in the Kapodra police station area, where the accused raped the victim at his residence. The accused was the victim’s father’s cousin and she used to address him as uncle. Taking advantage of her trust, he sexually assaulted her when no one else was present at his home.Following the incident, the Kapodra police registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and Pocso Act.The court found the accused guilty of rape and…
The seized stock of e-cigarettes Vadodara: Special Operations Group (SOG) sleuths on Friday seized a large stock of e-cigarettes that were allegedly being sold across the city.Acting on a tip-off that e-cigarettes had been stored at a house in Akota township, the SOG team conducted a raid and found a minor boy at the premises. Police recovered several boxes containing e-cigarettes worth more than Rs 10 lakh.According to police, the boy told investigators that he had been hired on a salary by accused Saifan Memon and Aavesh Patel to store the e-cigarettes.Police said they seized 408 e-cigarettes of various brands…
Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University, in collaboration with the Varanasi Municipal Corporation, has launched a comprehensive plantation drive under the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ initiative. The campaign began at Malaviya Bhawan, with plantation of white sandalwood saplings by vice-chancellor Prof Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, mayor Ashok Tiwari and registrar Rajan Srivastava.The VMC has provided 5,000 saplings, along with tree guards, for plantation across the university campus. ProfChaturvedi appreciated the VMC’s green initiative and expressed gratitude for its support. He said the contribution would help make the university campus greener and more environment-friendly. He also emphasised the need for proper protection and…
T’puram: The Thiruvananthapuram Metro Rail project is set to move another step forward, with Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) preparing to submit the revised detailed project report (DPR) to the state govt next week, following a fresh technical review by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).The revised DPR will incorporate minor changes suggested after a site inspection conducted by the DMRC team last week. The modifications are aimed primarily at avoiding demolition of buildings at the proposed 16 stations and reducing the social impact of the proposed metro alignment, particularly in densely built-up stretches of the capital.KMRL is expected to receive…
Kolkata: Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta on Friday said that “a student agitation should not be hijacked by people who are professional politicians”, referring to the vandalism at Jadavpur University. His cabinet colleague Dilip Ghosh, however, on Friday said that “anti-national activities” should not be allowed on JU campus.In video posted on his X handle, Dasgupta also said: “Regardless of whether you are from the Left or the Right, everyone will take exception to the vandalism and desecration of the JU logo, which was designed by Nandalal Bose, a celebrated nationalist artist, and one which suggests strong links between JU…
TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293m) to the US to end a lawsuit alleging its platform violated childrens’ privacy, marking one of the largest ever settlements over the issue.The deal stems from a 2024 suit by the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected “vast amounts of data” on millions of users under the age of 13.Doing so was against the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a federal law enacted in 2000. It is the same law that dozens of US states are now suing Meta over.”Children and parents…