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Lucknow: Two families on Friday performed the last rites of bank officer Manas Bajpai, his bank manager wife Divya Mishra and his sister Sheeba Bajpai, hours after their bodies were taken together for post-mortem at King George’s Medical University (KGMU). Colleagues from the banks where the couple worked also reached the cremation site to pay their respects.Divya’s body was taken to her Alambagh home by her brother-in-law Bharat Yadav and maternal cousin Mayank Dixit, before being carried to Baikunth Dham. Her father, Satish Chandra Mishra, lit the funeral pyre, and her cremation was conducted first.Around one and a half hours…

Patna: Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has stepped up action against 26,746 cases of unauthorised non-residential use of buildings in residential areas, directing executive officers of all circles to conduct regular hearings and dispose of cases promptly.Municipal commissioner Yashpal Meena on Friday directed circle executive officers to hear cases involving property owners served notices for carrying out non-residential activities in residential colonies. The officers have been asked to examine objections, documents and representations submitted by property owners and dispose of cases as per rules without unnecessary delay.The action follows a recent Supreme Court order in the Loganathan vs State of Tamil…

Jaipur: The state govt has expanded its e-Mitra WhatsApp service to 103 govt services from 51, with citizens recording more than 2.32 lakh transactions so far.Services of departments including revenue, home, Jan Aadhaar, food and civil supplies, discoms, local bodies, education, public health engineering, social justice and empowerment and police are now available on the platform.The 103 services have been divided into four categories — 32 application services, 36 download services, six payment services and 29 status-check services.Department of information technology and communication secretary and commissioner Himanshu Gupta said the expansion fulfils the target announced in the 2025-26 Budget to…

Nagpur: With the modernisation of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport underway, the process to monetise 271 hectares of land around the facility has gathered momentum. Mihan India Ltd has invited bids from consultancy firms to prepare a development roadmap for the land, which could pave the way for commercial, industrial, residential and aviation-related projects.The consultant will assess market demand, connectivity, infrastructure and land-use policies before drawing up a comprehensive plan for the site.Of the 271 hectares identified for monetisation, 122 hectares belong to Airports Authority of India (AAI) and 149 hectares to Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC). The land is…

The rising flames triggered panic among workers and employees in Jharkhand. RAMGARH: At least three people are dead and one injured after a fire broke out at a steel plant in Hehal, Bhurkunda, in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, police said.According to preliminary information, the fire broke out in the plant’s main control room and quickly spread across the area.A large number of employees were present on the premises when the fire broke out. The rising flames triggered panic among workers and employees.Further details are awaited.(This is a developing story) Source link

Kolkata: Mehebub Zahedi (24) from Malda’s Chanchal has cleared NEET UG 2026 and qualified for Bachelor of Dental Surgery, but the lack of a domicile certificate is obstructing her admission to a Chhattisgarh college. She does not have a domicile certificate since her name was deleted in the SIR. Calcutta High Court’s single judge Justice Krishna Rao on Thursday directed the Chanchal SDO to provide her with a “temporary” domicile certificate while directing Zahedi to give an undertaking that if she is not successful before the Appellate Tribunal, she will surrender the certificate.The Appellate Tribunal has been asked to dispose…

Cornell is one of the biggest and most esteemed universities in the world, sitting on a hill overlooking the 38-mile-long Cayuga Lake with an area of 2,300 acres. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, most institutions, including Cornell, used CFC chillers. These first-generation Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODSs) were destroying the ozone layer and warming the climate. When the university had to phase out its ageing CFC chillers due to unreliability and CFC bans under the Montreal Protocol, researchers and engineers looked down the campus slopes towards the cold and deep waters of Cayuga Lake.Earlier, the campus relied on conventional refrigeration…

Royal Mail has once again missed its delivery targets for first and second class post, but said it is making progress towards the goals as its turnaround plan continues. The postal service delivered 85% of first class deliveries the next day between March and June, up from 76% in the same three months of 2025, but below regulator Ofcom’s 90% target. Second class mail was delivered within three days 91% of the time, another improvement from the previous year, but short of Ofcom’s 95% target.Royal Mail said the results are “encouraging and show that the work we are doing to…

Spurs struggled last season, securing survival on the final day and finishing just two points above the relegation zone. Maddison said it was tough not to be able to help out.”We probably struggled a little bit for creativity and I’m watching the games thinking, ‘what would I be doing there?’,” he said.Despite those tough experiences, the midfielder described how Italian head coach Roberto de Zerbi helped lift the mood at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after taking over in March.”He’s very clever. He’s very tactical. He’s obsessed with football, you can see that,” said Maddison.”But to be honest, when he first…

Josh Hazlewood was left visibly frustrated after a bizarre collision with Bangladesh batter Taskin Ahmed denied the Australian pacer a possible return catch during the second Test in Mackay on Saturday. The unusual incident unfolded in Bangladesh’s 28th over, with the visitors already reeling at 38 for eight. Hazlewood dug the ball short, and Taskin backed away before attempting a pull, only for the ball to take the top edge and balloon almost vertically into the air.Josh Hazlewood collided with Taskin Ahmed. (X images)Hazlewood immediately moved forward, keeping his eyes fixed on the descending ball as he attempted to complete…