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Prayagraj: In a novel initiative, Fatehpur police on Wednesday launched a system under which complainants will receive a copy of their FIR on WhatsApp. If a complainant does not use WhatsApp, a beat constable will deliver the FIR copy at their doorstep.“This will save complainants from making repeated visits to police stations to obtain a copy of the FIR, which should be provided immediately after registration,” said Fatehpur superintendent of police Abhimanyu Manglik, who conceived the initiative.The SP said the decision was taken after it came to light that many complainants failed to receive FIR copies for several days after…

Bhubaneswar: Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred hearing on life convict Dara Singh’s remission plea to Sept 2 and warned that prolonged delay by the state would compel the court to take its own call.“You take a decision, otherwise we will take our call,” the bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Vijay Bishnoi told the Odisha govt counsel, expressing displeasure over the state’s failure to decide on Singh’s plea for premature release despite his application remaining pending for years.The bench noted that the matter had been adjourned several times to enable the state to take a decision, yet no final determination…

Doctors advised people with flu-like symptoms to wear masks in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces Gurgaon: The city recorded seven H1N1 (swine flu) cases in Aug so far — the highest monthly tally in 2026 and more than double the count from any other month this year, according to district health department data.Twenty-one H1N1 cases have been recorded in the city between Jan and Aug. The district reported three cases each in Jan, March, June and July, two in Feb, none in April and May, and seven in Aug — the sharpest single-month spike of the year.Health officials typically link…

Dibrugarh: Dibrugarh Municipal Corporation (DMC) on Wednesday carried out a fresh eviction drive inside Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH) campus, removing unauthorised food stalls that had resurfaced barely a month after a similar operation on July 17.The drive targeted illegal makeshift stalls that had crept back into the campus, with officials also zeroing in on chronic littering and poor sanitation around the hospital premises. Vendors selling gutka and other tobacco products within the medical campus were also removed during the exercise. The tobacco sales inside the hospital premises drew particular concern from authorities, given the health risks involved in…

Times News NetworkKanpur: A delegation of the Adhivakta Kalyan Sangharsh Samiti met district administration officials on Wednesday and demanded that advocates and their family members be included in the Cashless Treatment Scheme.Samiti convener Ravindra Sharma said that advocates had been struggling for the implementation of a cashless treatment facility for themselves and their families. He said that a delegation had met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on December 26, 2025, and raised the issue. The chief minister had taken the matter seriously and later announced the scheme in Gorakhpur, but it has not yet been implemented.Sharma said advocates and their family…

Mysuru: The lone survivor in the Hanur villagers’ killing case, Joseph Mahima Das, has said he is living in fear.As a BJP fact-finding committee led by former minister N Mahesh visited the site, a one-minute video of Mahima Das surfaced and went viral on social media. Recorded at an undisclosed location, the footage shows him recounting the events of Aug. 15.Mahima Das, who was with three other villagers who were killed, said it was around 5am-5.30am when a team of foresters arrived and started shooting. He said he immediately fled into the forest and that the firing stopped after about…

Noida: A decomposed body of an unidentified man was recovered from a drain in Sector 55 on Wednesday morning, with police suspecting that he may have died around a fortnight ago.Sanitation workers cleaning the drain outside the exit of a residential society spotted the body around 8am after removing an iron cover. The workers alerted the society’s security guard, who informed police through the emergency helpline 112.The man was wearing a T-shirt and lower. His body was in an advanced stage of decomposition, making it difficult for police to ascertain his age or identity. The drain is more than 10…

Pune: Two unidentified men attacked and assaulted a 29-year-old commercial-cum-ticket clerk (CCTC) of the Indian Railways with a knife in the early hours of Tuesday and robbed him of Rs26,685 in ticket counter collections, two mobile phones and a gold chain, collectively worth Rs4.91 lakh.The robbery occurred around 1am when the victim was about to leave the booking counter at Tadiwala Road, the second entrance to Pune railway station, to deposit the Rs 26,685 collection at the main booking office near the station’s main entrance.“When he opened the counter door, he saw two unidentified men standing outside. They held a…

GIDC records obtained through RTI have raised questions over the project’s execution Panaji: Fresh allegations of corruption within the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) have surfaced, with a complaint alleging manipulation of contractual records, alteration of bills after completion of work and substitution of tender items reaching chief secretary V Candavelou. This is the third time in less than a month that allegations of fraud have been levelled against GIDC.According to GIDC records obtained through the Right to Information Act by retired GIDC deputy general manager Girish Priolkar and United Goans Foundation (UGF), there is documentary evidence suggesting irregularities in…

Tributes being paid to Sant Harchand Singh Longowal on his death anniversary Jalandhar: Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, then Shiromani Akali Dal president, was assassinated on Aug 20, 1985, weeks after he signed the Punjab Accord with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on Jul 24. An account by then Punjab DGP Kirpal Dhillon raises questions over alleged security lapses surrounding Longowal and the roles of senior police and security officials.In his 2013 memoir, ‘Time Present & Time Past: Memoirs of a Top Cop’, Dhillon wrote of “significant and deliberate lapses” in Longowal’s security and questioned the roles of senior officials, including then…