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Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has quashed the termination of 26 general category junior engineers recruited by the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam in 2013, holding that employees cannot be made to suffer for mistakes committed by authorities during the recruitment process.Justice Irshad Ali, while allowing separate petitions filed by junior engineer Rakesh Pratap Singh and 25 others, observed that the petitioners had been appointed by the competent authority through a regular selection process and that no allegation of fraud had been made against them.The court held that while implementation of the reservation policy is mandatory, authorities…

Muzaffarpur: A woman allegedly poisoned her two-and-a-half-year-old son by mixing a suspected poisonous substance in biscuits in Rampur Hari police station area of Minapur block on Thursday evening. The woman also allegedly consumed poison and is undergoing treatment under police supervision at Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH).The child, identified as Aryan Kumar, son of Akhilesh Ram of Tengrhanha Uttar Tola, died late Thursday night. The incident came to light on Friday after police received information and reached the hospital.According to the family, Aryan’s father works in Punjab. The child’s grandfather, Kailash Ram, said Akhilesh had married Aarti Kumari…

Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has barred indefinite blanket freezing of bank accounts in cybercrime investigations, directing police to establish a prima facie link between an account or transaction and the alleged offence before imposing financial restraints. A single bench of Justice Anand Sharma issued the directions while deciding more than 100 writ petitions challenging the freezing, debit-freezing and lien marking of bank accounts following cyber-fraud complaints. The judgement was pronounced Thursday. The court held that vague, unverified or cryptic communications cannot justify completely immobilising a bank account. Investigators must identify the disputed amount, wherever possible, and ensure that any…

Nagpur: A 28-year-old beautician died after being crushed under the wheels of an Aapli Bus on Kamptee Road near Automotive Chowk on Friday morning. The incident occurred on a stretch where one carriageway has been closed for road concretisation work, being carried out by state public works department (PWD), forcing two-way traffic onto the remaining side.The deceased, identified as Anjali Pande, a resident of Vaishnavi Devi Nagar in Kalamna, owned a beauty parlour in Jaripatka. She was on her way to work when the accident took place at around 10.30am.According to police, Pande was riding her scooter from Automotive Square…

The committee is evaluating ways to revive the PSU and make it profitable, MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy said Ranchi: In order to discuss a road map for the revival of ailing Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), chief minister Hemant Soren on Friday met a six-member parliamentary sub-committee at his residential office.The delegation had visited the public sector undertaking in Ranchi on Thursday to assess the situation on the ground and explore revival options.“Discussions focused on HEC’s present condition, the challenges facing its operations and employees, and possible strategies for its restructuring and revival,” the information and public relations department said in…

Surat: A Rs 242 crore lab-grown diamond research project at IIT Madras has successfully tested a prototype high-pressure high-temperature diamond press and produced good-quality HPHT rough diamonds, marking a significant step towards indigenous production.Three years after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the allocation in the 2023 Union Budget, the India Centre for Lab Grown Diamond (InCent-LGD) completed successful trials on a prototype high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) diamond press, people familiar with the development said.Experts associated with the project said the trials delivered encouraging results for the performance of the press as well as the “recipe” of inputs used to grow diamonds.…

Vadodara: A quick request for cash outside an ATM turned costly several citizens, with city police arresting a man who allegedly used fake payment confirmations to dupe people into handing over cash.City police arrested Sahil Sheikh, a resident of Wadi, for allegedly cheating people by showing fake screenshots generated through malicious ‘look-alike’ mobile applications.According to police, Sheikh targeted people outside ATM booths across the city. On Aug 16, he approached a man near an SBI ATM in Harni and said he needed cash but his debit card was not working. He asked the complainant to give him Rs 8,000 in…

Varanasi: A 52-year-old labourer was seriously injured after a dilapidated balcony collapsed at old Kanshiram Housing Scheme in Shivpur police station area on Thursday evening.The injured labourer was taken to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Divisional Hospital for treatment, where he died around 8:30 pm.The labourer was identified as Sheetal alias Shatalu, a resident of Block No 61, Room No 11, in the old Kanshiram Housing complex. Around 5:30 pm on Thursday, Sheetal had gone to the roof to dry clothes when the balcony of the third floor collapsed. Sheetal fell on the second floor and sustained serious injuries.Local residents took him…

T’puram: The valedictory function of the Episcopal silver jubilee of Cardinal Mar Baselios Cleemis Catholicos Bava, Major Archbishop of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, will be held at Pattom St Mary’s Higher Secondary School ground on Saturday.The programme will begin at 8.30am. A solemn concelebrated Holy Mass will be led by Cardinal Cleemis. Several bishops and around 400 priests will concelebrate. Cardinal Oswald Gracias will deliver the homily. Patriarch Ignatius Yousif Younan of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch will be the chief guest.The public meeting at 11am will be inaugurated by chief minister V D Satheesan.Goa Archbishop Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão,…

ABVP activists outside Presidency University gate on Friday. photo by Sayantan Chakraborty Kolkata: A day after the JU incident, tensions escalated on College Street as ABVP supporters staged protests outside Presidency and Calcutta Universities on Friday.Around 4 pm, ABVP activists staged a protest outside the locked main gate of Presidency University, triggering tension in the surrounding area. A group of demonstrators carried a photograph of Aurobindo and shouted “Shame Shame” at SFI supporters, who responded with counter-slogans from within the campus.Ananta Barui, a spokesperson for ABVP, said: “We are protesting against SFI supporters engaged in anti-national activities in these educational…