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In her reply, Turley said she was “utterly appalled” by the accusation and said she did not know the identities of who had died at the time of her tribute, other than PCs Matthew Blades, 37, and Tom Clough, 38, who she named.While she said Cleveland Police had asked her to pay tribute to all victims, the force has not confirmed this and the area’s police and crime commissioner told the BBC it does not issue media advice regarding police incidents.Police later confirmed that Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jacob Matusiak, 23, Makai Saddington, 18, Theo Rae, 17, and 17-year-old Cole…

Russia is increasingly recruiting women for the war against Ukraine amid signs that its pool of potential male recruits is shrinking, according to an investigation by the Poland-based news outlet Vot Tak. At least 50 Russian women serving in the war have been killed, with the annual death toll rising the longer the war has gone on, the outlet found.  Vot Tak identified each of the 50 women and examined how Russia recruits women, what motivates them to enlist and how their roles have expanded from medical and support work to operating drones, firing sniper rifles and taking part in assaults.…

MUMBAI: Two Parsi-owned bungalows, which are part of two housing societies in the prime Perry Cross Road area off Carter Road in Bandra (W), will be razed and redeveloped by Supreme Universal.The early 20th century bungalows, Gladhurst and Kavas Lodge, are on land belonging to Wavelash and Sunbeam societies. These are the latest in a long list of bungalow properties that will go under the hammer. A slew of old Bandra bungalows have been demolished and replaced by luxury towers.Supreme’s Sunny Bijlani told TOI plans are afoot to build 2 luxury towers with every flat having a private terrace. “This…

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra (R) criticized Congress leaders for their past remarks NEW DELHI: Highlighting the “success story” of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the BJP on Tuesday attacked the Congress, alleging that its leader P Chidambaram had mocked the launch of UPI, which has now become the world’s largest real-time payment system within a decade.UPI completed 10 years of its rollout in 2016 on Tuesday, news agency PTI reported.Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said Chidambaram had called UPI a “big blunder” and claimed that it would affect the country’s economy.The BJP…

Hyderabad: Telangana Rakshana Sena chief Kalvakuntla Kavitha has constituted a committee comprising educationists and party leaders to study the continuation and necessity of polytechnic education in Telangana state. She announced the committee with seven members on Tuesday.Panic has spread among students ever since the Congress govt issued Government Order (GO) 97, bringing polytechnic education under the purview of the Skill University. Students across the state have taken to the streets, organizing various forms of protests. They are demanding the immediate revocation of GO 97 and urging the govt not to transfer polytechnic education under the scope of SHAKTI (Department of…

Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: Madras high court has warned Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay and public works department minister Aadhav Arjuna that it will be constrained to impose Rs 50,000 as exemplary cost on each of them if they fail to file their response to the petitions challenging their victories in the recent assembly election.“The court is not bothered about the persons involved in the litigation but only wanted to ensure that the election petitions are disposed of within the statutory period of six months,” Justice V Lakshminarayanan observed on Tuesday.However, after counsel for…

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vidyapith will hold its 72nd convocation ceremony on Aug 27 at its Gandhi Campus in Ahmedabad, with Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah attending as the chief guest. Gujarat Vidyapith chancellor and Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat will be the special guest at the event.The ceremony will begin at 4.30pm at Pranjivan Vidyarthi Bhavan. Degrees will be awarded to 900 students from 18 departments across seven faculties. The graduating batch includes 184 undergraduate students, 400 postgraduates, 232 graduate-level students, 21 postgraduate diploma students, and 63 MPhil and PhD scholars. Of the total, 441 are women and 459 are…

Prayagraj: Heart patients at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital will soon get relief from long waits for admission, with a new ward in the cardiology department expected to be ready within the next three months. The two-storey expansion of the cardiology ICU at the SRN Hospital campus is around 60% complete and is being constructed at a cost of Rs 1.50 crore.The cardiology department currently has 19 ICU beds and 18 pre-ICU beds. The expansion will add around 15 more beds, besides doctors’ chambers and a waiting area. A lift will also be provided to facilitate movement of patients to the…

Given the long-standing concern over chromium-bearing discharge into Damasala nullah, the committee recommended a centralised hexavalent treatment facility with tertiary treatment for the entire Sukinda valley Cuttack: A joint committee, constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to probe alleged chromium contamination from chromite mining by a private ferro alloys company in Jajpur district’s Sukinda valley, has found hexavalent chromium (a toxic form of chromium) in untreated run-off at levels more than 100 times the prescribed limit, which is 0.05 milligram/litre. The committee also found serious deficiencies in mine drainage and overburden dump management.According to the Central Ground Water Authority…

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has proposed approximately 10 key development projects to utilise the Rs 3,500 crore grant which it is eligible to receive under the special infrastructure component recommended by the 16th Central Finance Commission.Corporation commissioner Katta Ravi Teja said the latest major proposal of a Rs 824cr underground drainage (UGD) project for Kalapatti, Vilankurichi and parts of Saravanampatti is among the projects listed under this scheme. The DPR has been submitted to the Directorate of Municipal Administration for approval. The project will cover wards 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 22 and 23, with…