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Lucknow: In Lucknow, the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences opened PRITHVI 2026, India’s first National Palaeoscience Film Festival and National Dialogue on Earth Science Communication. Scientists arrived with specimens and slides, filmmakers with hard drives and storyboards, and journalists with notebooks ready.The hall felt like a studio and a laboratory at once. Curators spoke about turning climate change graphs, fossil beds, and vanishing habitats into images that ordinary viewers could feel and remember. The programme promised screenings, masterclasses, and panels where researchers and editors would trade methods, argue about accuracy, and test new ways of explaining deep time.A festival book…

Patna: Bihar’s mines and geology department will soon auction mineral blocks in Banka and Jamui districts, with tender documents currently being prepared. The blocks include copper, lead and zinc deposits in Banka and a magnetite block in Jamui. Once auctioned, mining rights will be awarded to selected firms, officials said.The announcement came during a meeting of the State Geological Programming Board (SGPB), chaired by mines and geology secretary Avaneesh Kumar Singh. The meeting was attended by mines director Maneesh Kumar Meena and representatives from the Geological Survey of India (GSI), Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and Bihar Remote Sensing Application…

Around 50,000 e-rickshaws will be allowed to ply only within their allotted areas Jaipur: After an earlier attempt fizzled out, Jaipur is making another push to regulate its swelling e-rickshaw fleet, this time through technology-backed monitoring, stricter enforcement and a citywide zonal system.Around 50,000 e-rickshaws will be allowed to ply only within their allotted areasAround 50,000 e-rickshaws will be allowed to ply only within their allotted areasAt the Traffic Control Board meeting, Wednesday, Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) approved a plan to divide the city into seven operational zones, with around 50,000 e-rickshaws allowed to ply only within their allotted areas.…

Nagpur: The Nagpur police brass this week directed deputy commissioners of police (DCPs) to strictly monitor and improve response times for all emergency calls and untoward incidents. At present, the average response time by the city police is around five minutes, said sources.This measure is expected to provide faster relief to citizens, particularly in distress situations, and rebuild trust in the police machinery.The new guidelines, issued by CP Vishwas Nangre Patil, empowered DCPs to personally oversee response time monitoring across their jurisdictions. DCPs will conduct regular audits of logged data from emergency alerts, analysing actual versus prescribed response periods. “Delays…

Daltonganj: A 26-year-old man from Palamu district was arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly strangling a realtor to death with four others in April this year. The accused, identified as Prashant Tiwary, is a resident of Barkagaon village under Sadar police station limits.He was brought to Daltonganj on a transit permit and remanded in judicial custody, Palamu SP Kapil Chaudhary said on Thursday. Realtor Vinit Tiwary, 32, was gagged to death on the night of April 25 over an ongoing dispute over a land trade. Five men, including Prashant, took part in the crime.In Jhansi, he rented a…

Gorakhpur, Jul 23 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath greets during the inauguration and foundation stone laying program of 14 public welfare development projects costing more than Rs995 crore, including a 6-lane flyover from Transport Nagar to Padleganj and a 4-lane flyover connecting it to Deoria Bypass, in Gorakhpur on Thursday. (@CMOfficeUP X/ANI Photo) Gorakhpur: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that a life devoid of devotion is marked by darkness, disorder and ignorance, and that spiritual knowledge rooted in devotion is the path to inner peace and understanding.Addressing devotees at the inauguration of a seven-day ‘Shri Ram…

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president P S Prasanth and former board member A Ajikumar were arrested and later remanded in judicial custody on Thursday after being produced before a court in the Sabarimala gold theft case. The two were interrogated by an SIT headed by crime branch SP S Sashidharan.Prasanth was taken into custody from his residence at Enikkara in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday morning, while Ajikumar, a Kayamkulam native, was detained while travelling to the capital. Prasanth had earlier indicated in a Facebook post that he expected to be arrested. Both will undergo medical examination before being produced…

Kolkata: The first attempt by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) to stage a protest in the city on Friday and another rally, called by Left-aligned students’ bodies, may have hit a roadblock as Kolkata Police on Thursday cited “pre-occupation with Ulta Rath processions” as a reason to ask the organisers to postpone their demonstrations.Till last reports came in, the CJP had hinted to Lalbazar that it was still considering deferring their rally, planned around 4 pm, though a final picture was yet to emerge. But the Left bodies have not yet called off their procession. A member of AISA, a…

Rajouri, July 24: Recent flash floods in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district caused major damage to the local power infrastructure, washing away 15 transformers and damaging roughly 200 others, causing widespread disruption to electricity supply across the district, Power Development Department (PDD) authorities stated.Rajouri Power Development Department (PDD) Executive Engineer, Javed Akhtar, stated that power restoration work is currently underway on a war footing. Electricity has already been restored in several affected areas, while restoration work continues in the remaining locations.Senior PDD officers, engineers, field staff, and labourers are working together around the clock to restore the damaged network. Due…

In a couple of weeks, investigators are expected to release their final report into the crash of Air India Flight AI171. The Ahmedabad-to-London flight fell from the sky less than a minute after takeoff last June. There were 242 people on board, and all but one died.Among the victims were Javed Ali, his wife Mariam and their two children.We spoke to their family in Mumbai, where Javed’s brother, Imtiyaz Ali, and his mother Farida Bano reflected on how the loss changed their lives and how they learned to carry their grief – sometimes feeling as though Javed was still with…