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A forest offence report was registered against Bansi Nath Sapera under sections 9, 39 and 51 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 Gurgaon: A man was arrested after eight snakes were rescued from a house in Faridabad following a tip-off about their alleged illegal possession and use for public display and begging.A forest offence report was registered against Bansi Nath Sapera under sections 9, 39 and 51 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 on Monday. “The accused was sent to 14-day judicial custody on Monday,” wildlife DFO RK Jhangra told TOI.A forest department team, accompanied by police personnel, raided the…

Shillong: The first indigenous tribal woman chief secretary of Meghalaya, Rebecca Vanessa Suchiang, passed on Tuesday at the age of 64. She was under treatment for a terminal illness for the last couple of years.A 1989-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Suchiang became the first indigenous tribal woman chief secretary to the Meghalaya govt on taking oath on September 30, 2021. She continued in office as the highest bureaucrat in the state till her superannuation on December 31, 2022.PP Trivedi from the general category was the first woman chief secretary of Meghalaya from 1983 to 1985.On her retirement from…

Bihar boy recovered from Kanpur Central Kanpur: A 14-year-old boy who had gone missing from the Didarganj area of Patna in Bihar was found at Kanpur Central Railway Station and reunited with his family on Monday evening.According to Om Narayan Singh, inspector in-charge of GRP Kanpur Central, a police team was conducting a checking drive on the station platforms when it spotted a teenager roaming in the circulating area.During questioning, the boy told police that he was a resident of Didarganj in Patna. The GRP immediately contacted his family and learnt that a missing person complaint regarding his alleged abduction…

Shivamogga: A controversy has arisen at Mugadthi village, located under the Heddaripura GP near Ripponpete in Hosanagara taluk of Shivamogga district, following the appointment of a Dalit woman as an anganwadi helper.Some villagers refused to send their children to the centre following her appointment. Shivamogga DC Prabhuling Kavalikatti took the matter seriously and directed the department of women and child development to inspect the location immediately.Responding to the directive, child development project officer (CDPO) Gayatri Ramachandra, along with personnel from the Ripponpete police station, visited Mugadthi on Monday and convened a meeting with the residents to address the situation.She clarified…

Traffic jam on a road in Pune Pune: Bengaluru to Pune in 80 minutes. AreoMall to Baner 90 minutes!Baner’s Prasad Karwa experienced this on Monday evening. The digital marketer flew with his parents from Bengaluru to Pune — an aerial distance of around 741km — in about an hour and 20 minutes. The 18km cab ride from Pune airport to his Baner home took an hour and 30 minutes.“We boarded an Akasa Air flight from Bengaluru at 4.30pm, after an hour’s delay, and landed in Pune at 5.47pm. After collecting our luggage, we reached the AeroMall around 6.10pm and were…

The Singhwala-Khanauri border Patiala: In an escalation of their agitation, 51 farmers marching on foot from the Khanauri interstate border towards Delhi’s Jantar Mantar staged a bare-chested protest on Wednesday at barricades erected by the Haryana govt to stop them from entering the state.The farmers, marching under the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), had set out from the Khanauri checkpoint, where farmer Shubhkaran Singh was killed during the agitation two years ago. They are seeking to reach Jantar Mantar to press their demands.Farmer leaders alleged that the Haryana govt deployed heavy police force and multi-layered barricades to block the…

Patna: Artificial intelligence may revolutionise legal research, but it can never replace the professional judgement, ethical responsibility and constitutional conscience of a lawyer or judge, former Jharkhand High Court judge and Patna Law College alumnus Justice S N Pathak told law students at Patna Law College on Tuesday.Addressing students, Justice Pathak warned students against becoming “database-dependent” lawyers. He urged them to first understand the facts and identify the precise legal issue before searching judgments or turning to AI tools.“Make AI your assistant, but never make it your wisdom,” he said, adding that any AI-generated draft, citation or legal proposition must…

Rajkot: A 25-year-old man died at a hospital in Bhavnagar district, ostensibly after drinking spurious liquor on Sunday night, while six others from the same gathering remain critically ill in various hospitals, with some on ventilators. Most of the victims complained of vision loss the following morning.The deceased was identified as Upendrasinh Gohil, a resident of Kharkadi village in Ghogha taluka.According to his cousin, Narendrasinh Gohil, Upendrasinh and other youths had gathered at a farm for a party on Sunday night, where they allegedly drank Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL).Soon after drinking the liquor, the youths began vomiting severely and were…

Koderma: Four miscreants from Bihar were arrested from a secluded area in Indarwa under Telaiya police station limits late Monday night on charges of planning a bank robbery, Koderma police said.The arrested men were identified as Prince Pandey, Danny Kumar, Atul Mishra and Aman Raj, all from Bihar.Acting on a tip-off from Hazaribag police, Koderma SP Kumar Shivashish formed a team led by SDPO Pramod Keshri, Telaiya OC Vinay Kumar, and Koderma OC Arvind Kumar.The team launched a search operation and found the miscreants allegedly planning to strike a local branch of a nationalised bank. As police surrounded the spot,…

Gorakhpur: A Facebook friendship turned costly for a Khajni resident after a woman claiming to be a US national working in Syria allegedly duped him of Rs 15.2 lakh on the pretext of getting her luggage released from Delhi airport.Indralal Jaiswal, a resident of Khoria alias Bhiti village, registered an FIR on Monday evening after realising he had been duped. According to Jaiswal’s complaint, he became friends on Facebook with a woman who introduced herself as Charlotte Olivia and claimed to be a US resident working in Syria. During their conversations, she allegedly told him that she wanted to visit…