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Silchar: Police seized 70,000 suspected Yaba tablets valued at more than Rs 7 crore and arrested two persons during a raid in Dakshin Krishnapur, within the jurisdiction of Silchar police station, on Friday evening.Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a rented house in the Rahimer Dokan area of Dakshin Krishnapur village and recovered seven packets containing the suspected contraband.Police said the seized tablets had a gross weight of around 7.6 kg. The arrested men were identified as Ajmal Uddin Laskar, 47, and Azim Uddin Laskar, 28, both residents of Saidpur, within the jurisdiction of Silchar police station.Sources said…

Times News NetworkKanpur: Gujarat’s Vivan Dave and Maharashtra’s Divyanshi Bhaumik emerged champions in the Under-17 boys’ and girls’ categories respectively at the UTT National Ranking Table Tennis championships held at The Sports Hub (TSH) here on Saturday.Vivan Dave overcame a stiff challenge from Karnataka’s Atharva Navrange to win the boys’ final 8-11, 11-8, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4. Atharva made a strong start by winning the opening game, but Vivan fought back to take the next two and establish a 2-1 lead.Atharva refused to give up and levelled the match at 2-2 by winning the fourth game 11-9. However, Vivan displayed superior…

Ghaziabad has officially recorded three positive cases so far, while 42 tests have been done since Wednesday Noida: With Delhi recording over 1,700 H1N1 positive cases in the past weeks, health authorities across NCR, including Noida and Ghaziabad, have stepped up monitoring and urged residents to focus on preventive measures.Hospitals across the city said they are seeing more patients with high-grade fever and symptoms resembling swine flu. “We are seeing more patients with sudden onset fever, cough, sore throat, body ache, headache and marked fatigue. A proportion of patients, particularly those with underlying lung disease or other co-morbidities, are also…

A civil rights group argued that demolition of a voter’s house should not become a ground for exclusion from the electoral rolls Pune: A civil rights group sent a letter to the chief electoral officer, Maharashtra, seeking relief under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls for voters temporarily displaced after their homes were demolished.The group pointed out that Mumbai and Thane issued specific directions for voters temporarily displaced because of redevelopment, but similar provisions were not made in other districts. It urged the state CEO to extend the protection to voters displaced through eviction or demolition, including those…

Panaji: The Bombay high court has dismissed a review plea filed by Goa Foundation against its May 7 order on Goa’s mining dump policy.The policy allows iron ore from mining dumps to be returned to former leaseholders without auction.In its May 7 order, the high court had dismissed Goa Foundation’s PIL challenging the policy. The court had said that the dumps were created during mining under approved leases, and that the leaseholders had already paid royalty on the iron ore. It also said Goa Foundation’s demand for a fresh auction process for the dumps was not reasonable.Goa Foundation said that…

Chandigarh MC issues 80 fines in crackdown on illegal vending In Chandigarh Street Zoning Plan, the architect department of the Chandigarh administration has given maximum vendors to sector 15, where 1800 vendors will be accommodated, followed by sector 56 and Maloya which will have 1340 and 1161 vendors respectively. The architect department has prepared 36 locations across the city to accommodate 11,538 street vendors. Significantly, the MC’s general house on Friday asked the UT to rectify the plan by adding more sites and vendors, but sources in the UT revealed that since the prepared plan has been formulated flowing the…

Lucknow: Even after a brief spell of moderate rain in the city, entrance to Dr Deepak Dixit’s clinic on Park Road gets submerged under knee-deep water. Patients have to wade through the water to reach the clinic, while staff struggle to protect medical equipment.Dixit, who runs a diagnostic centre opposite Civil Hospital, said he has been resident of the area for 38 years but problem began six months ago after footpath and drainage work under CM grid scheme started in the area.“The footpath has been constructed by Lucknow Municipal Corporation at a higher level, preventing rainwater from flowing into the…

Kolkata: The findings of the Supreme Court-appointed Ombudsman on the functioning of Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) and, in particular, the conduct of its Sept 2025 elections served as the benchmark for the apex court’s Aug 20 order in the appointment of an administrator for the state cricket body.BCA announced the appointment by Supreme Court of former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh, as the SC-appointed administrator at a news conference addressed by BCA governing council member and convener Gyaneshwar Gautam on Friday.However, a copy of the latest Supreme Court order dated Aug 20, 2026, accessed by…

File photo of Niranjan School at Jhalana Jaipur: A day after conducting raids at a school run by Jaipur-based pastor Ravi Pahadia and his residence, Enforcement Directorate Saturday said that it has found incriminating documents and digital evidence as part of its probe into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) involving foreign donations of more than Rs 2.88 crore.An ED officer said, “Pahadia got in touch with an American citizen and donor Thomas Eugene Lynch in 2015, and till date he and his wife Gunjan Sharma have received Rs 2.88 crore as donations in the name of…

Nagpur: Supreme Court recently directed Amravati University (AU) to declare the sixth- and eighth-semester examination results of a former BPharm student whose Scheduled Tribe certificate had been cancelled, and to issue her degree certificate if she has qualified.A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and Manmohan allowed the appeals filed by the student, Cynthia Charlie, against two orders of the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court.Charlie was admitted to a four-year BPharm course at an affiliated college in the Scheduled Tribe category in 2014-15. But Cynthia paid fees applicable to open-category students after the college informed her that she was eligible…