Author: Indmedia

Gurgaon: The city’s shift to paperless land services has yet to eliminate the backlog, with 7,585 mutation cases and 1,364 paperless registration cases pending across the district’s tehsils.The scale of pendency extends beyond registrations and mutations. The digital crop survey has another sizable backlog. Of 2,37,009 surveys allocated in Gurgaon, 81,482 have been completed and 10,551 approved, while 70,931 are pending approval.Moreover, 1,53,403 tatima (mutation-related map) cases are shown as pending in the bhunaksha-related work.Officials disclosed the figures during a review of revenue services by financial commissioner, revenue and disaster management, Sumita Misra, who directed time-bound disposal of pending cases.“Revenue…

House collapsed amid rain in Kanpur,none injured Kanpur: A dilapidated house collapsed due to heavy rain in the Bengali Mohal area under the Kotwali police station limits late Monday.No casualties were reported as the occupants had vacated the building in the evening, fearing its collapse.According to eyewitnesses, the balcony of the house collapsed first, and the entire structure came crashing down sometime later.On receiving information, police reached the spot and assessed the situation. Source link

The meet featured track and field competitions across U-14, U-16, U-18, and U-20 age categories for both boys and girls. Ludhiana: Over 1,600 young athletes from across Punjab participated in the 101st Punjab State Junior Athletics Championship 2026, which concluded at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana.Organised by the District Athletics Association under the Punjab Athletic Association, the three-day championship ran from August 16 to 18. The meet featured track and field competitions across U-14, U-16, U-18, and U-20 age categories for both boys and girls.On the final day, Gurpreet Kamboj from Fazilka won the U-20 boys’ 3,000m race, followed…

Programme launched for speech- and hearing-impaired children Mysuru: The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), in association with the Akshaya Patra Foundation, has launched a breakfast programme for speech- and hearing-impaired children visiting the institute for treatment.The initiative was inaugurated by zilla panchayat CEO Yukesh Kumar at Kutira on the Panchavati campus in Mysuru.Speaking on the occasion, Iskcon’s Krishna Swami said the Akshaya Patra Foundation, which provides free midday meals to over 20,000 govt schoolchildren in partnership with the Union and state govts, is expanding its services to support visually impaired children and persons with special needs.He said…

The IDs will help maintain a record of the repairs and also identify stretches that need immediate attention Ghaziabad: To enable better tracking and quicker repairs, Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation will assign unique identification numbers and health grades to the city’s 2,000-km road network. The unique ID system will create a digital record of past work done on each stretch, allowing an easy access to repair history. This is the first time in the state that such IDs are being assigned to roads.The civic body has already surveyed more than 119 km, with the exercise continuing in phases. “The city has…

Pune: Maharashtra State Open Schooling Board on Tuesday declared the results of its first batch of overseas students who appeared for Std VII and Std VIII Marathi language assessment, marking the first major outcome of an agreement aimed at helping children of non-resident Indian Marathi families to continue learning the language.The results of 230 students were available online on the board’s website. The students are from 60 Marathi schools and centres in Canada, Denmark and the US and had enrolled with the board for the academic year 2025-26.The board’s secretary Deepak Mali said, “The initiative follows an agreement between the…

Diamond Harbour—whose first instalment was adjusted against the IFL winners’ prize money due to them — have sought a “further extension of the payment timeline.” Panaji: The top-tier Indian Super League (ISL) will go ahead with 13 teams if Diamond Harbour FC fail to clear their second instalment before the final deadline of Wednesday afternoon.The AIFF had set an Aug 14 deadline for all clubs to pay Rs 1.1 crore in two instalments of Rs 55 lakh each. While clubs have now cleared the payment, Diamond Harbour—whose first instalment was adjusted against the Indian Football League (IFL) winners’ prize money…

Medical students and interns protest at BPS Govt Medical College in Sonipat Gohana: Two MBBS interns were allegedly molested within a span of just 30 minutes at BPS Govt Medical College in Sonipat’s Khanpur Kalan, on Independence Day night, triggering protests by students.Students demand better lighting, more guards on campus and regular police patrols, especially at night. Education minister Mahipal Dhanda said such incidents targeting female students would not be tolerated and assured that he would speak with chief minister Nayab Singh Saini about strengthening security.Both interns were attacked when they were walking back to their hostels at night after…

Lucknow: Four sportspersons from Uttar Pradesh — Paris Olympic hockey medallist Raj Kumar Pal from Ghazipur, rower Arvind Singh from Bulandshahr, race walker Priyanka Goswami from Meerut and shooter Akhil Sheoran from Baghpat — have been selected for the Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in sports and games.Two boxing coaches from the state, Chhote Lal Yadav from Varanasi and Sambhal’s Dharmendra Singh Yadav, have been chosen for the Dronacharya Award.“I got emotional when I came to know about the award. Soon after the news came in, congratulatory messages started pouring in,” said Pal, a deputy superintendent of police in Uttar…

Leader of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav addresses a press conference in Patna on Tuesday Patna: The RJD on Tuesday changed the starting point of its protest march against paper leaks, the examination system, recruitment issues and unemployment, with the march now set to begin from JP roundabout instead of the party’s state office.The march, already announced for Wednesday, will begin at 10am and proceed to Lok Bhavan. The decision to change the starting point was taken at a meeting chaired by leader of opposition in assembly Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Tuesday evening.RJD spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav said the march would…