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BENGALURU: Just before lighting the funeral pyre, he paused for one last look at his sister, who had purportedly died of a sudden heart attack. As he leaned in, he had a nagging sense something wasn’t right. There were faint blood marks on her face. “Why are there bloodstains on her face if she died after a heart attack?” he wondered.That single question unravelled a chilling crime.The woman, B Pushpavati, 52, had in fact not died of a heart attack. She had allegedly been smothered to death, and the people accused of killing her are her own daughter and son-in-law.…

YADADRI BHUVANAGIRI: A massive explosion was reported after a radiator blast at a laboratory in Dotigudem, under the Choutuppal Police Station limits in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, officials said.Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and the blaze was later brought under control. No casualties have been reported so far, and the exact cause of the explosion is yet to be determined, according to officials.”A massive explosion occurred after radiator blast at Brundavan Laboratories PVT in Dotigudem, under the Choutuppal Police Station limits in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district. Ten Fire vehicles have reached the spot and controlled the fire. No casualties…

The demand for structured, women-only accommodation is rising sharply across Tamil Nadu, with occupancy levels touching 93% as of February 2026, according to data shared by Thozhi Hostels.”The chain currently operates 19 hostels across the state, including 5 in the Chennai region and 14 in the rest of Tamil Nadu. Together, these facilities house 1,749 operational beds, 888 in Chennai and 861 in other districts, spread across 2.85 lakh sq ft of built-up area,” said K Krishna Chaitanya, CEO of Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Fund Management Corporation Ltd (TNIFMC).Chennai accounts for a slightly larger share of operational beds and commands significantly…

Ahmedabad: A special NDPS court at the city sessions court here on Friday punished a 30-year-old man with 12 years in prison for illegally stocking cough syrup bottles containing codeine phosphate for sale, and imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on him. Mohammad Arif Saiyed, a resident of Allahnagar in Danilimda, was arrested after a team of the Special Operations Group of the crime branch seized 85 bottles of cough syrup worth Rs 20,000 during a raid in Jan 2024.The police arraigned two others, Salim Shaikh and Jamaluddin Shaikh, in the case for conspiring with Saiyed to stock and…

Prayagraj: Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday said people, particularly youths, are enthusiastic about the Union and state govts budgets which encourages youths to become job creators and providers.”Global investors are interested in coming to UP after acknowledging the better law and order situation, infrastructure and road, rail and air network, etc. Overall investment in the state will create employment and help India to be developed by 2047,” he said. Maurya was in Sangam city to attend the “Yuva Samvad” event. Replying to a question, Maurya said that Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav was frustrated since he…

Berhampur: The regional chief conservator of forests (RCCF), Berhampur circle has alerted the circle’s divisional forest officers (DFOs) to take steps to curb the transfer of animals and displaying of wildlife in the plays staged during the Danda Yatra, a seasonal folk festival in Ganjam and its neighbouring districts. The yatra is scheduled to start from the third week of March and will end on April 14.Besides plays by Danduas as per tradition, the yatra committees arrange for plays at night for entertainment. To attract the audience, the actors display snakes and other wild animals during the play, which is…

Gurgaon: An unauthorised concrete road laid along the edge of the Bandhwari landfill is set to be dismantled after the forest department ordered a halt to its construction on Wednesday. The track was laid within the Mangar Bani sacred grove and its buffer zone in Mangar and Bandhwari villages.Subhash Yadav, conservator of forests (South Haryana), said concreting roads inside Mangar Bani causes serious ecological damage. He added that while an informal unpaved path existed earlier, widening and paving it could fragment wildlife habitats in one of the last intact forest patches of the Aravalis.Forest officials said Mangar Bani remains protected…

Shillong: Meghalaya Police has constituted an SIT to probe the dynamite explosion in an illegal coal mine that claimed 31 lives in East Jaintia Hills district on Feb 5.The mishap occurred in the Mynsngat-Thangsko area, prompting immediate action from the state police. “In view of the recent coal mine accident that occurred at Thangsko, East Jaintia Hills District, Khliehriat, and in order to ensure a fair, impartial and expeditious investigation into the circumstances leading to the incident, an SIT has been constituted with immediate effect,” state DGP Idashisha Nongrang said in her order issued on Friday.Guwahati: PM’s Visit Prep, Space…

Belagavi: Many places visited by Mahatma Gandhi have been preserved as memorials, but the house where he stayed in Navalihal village of Chikodi taluk has been left abandoned. Gandhiji visited the village on March 7-8, 1934, during the Harijan Uddhar and Gramoddhar movements. Villagers have now urged the state govt to declare the building a memorial and preserve its historical importance.Mahatma Gandhi toured Karnataka nine decades ago during the freedom movement. He had stayed for two days in the house belonging to Akshay Chand Gujjar, a businessman in Navalihal. PM Modi Dials Tarique Rahman, Seva Teerth, New Labour Code &…

Kanpur: Health department will conduct a measles-rubella elimination campaign in Kanpur Nagar district from February 16 to February 27. This campaign will be organised on 4-6 non-RI days (excluding Wednesday and Saturday).Under the campaign, all children studying in classes 1 to 5 in all government educational institutions in the district will be covered through measles-rubella vaccination. An awareness rally was taken out at 9.30 am on Friday from Kanshiram Joint Hospital and Trauma Centre, Kanpur Nagar, passing through Ramadevi Chauraha and returning to the hospital premises. The rally was flagged off by chief medical officer Dr Haridatt Nemi.The health department…