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Bhubaneswar: Consumers are once again beginning to feel the impact of the ongoing West Asia conflict, with even the prices of drinking water witnessing a rise, though marginally. Several popular brands of packaged drinking water have marginally increased their prices, thanks to the hike in the rising input and logistics costs, triggered by the ongoing crisis.The prices of 10-litre and 20-litre water jars — widely used by households and offices — have gone up by Rs 10, while that of 5ltr bottles are up by Rs 5 in the city. The 10-litre water jars are now retailing at around Rs…

ClearedErode: CPI MP K Subbarayan has said incidents of crime have increased in Tamil Nadu and that the govt should take immediate steps to bring down the crime rate.“Failure to bring down crime rate would be dangerous for the state,’’ Subbarayan told reporters in Erode on Thursday. “TVK had said in their election manifesto that they would take efforts to bring down crime. The TVK govt should initiate steps as they had promised,’’ Subbarayan said.Though CPI has been extending outside support to TVK, senior leaders of the Left party have been flagging issues concerning the govt. Recently CPI state secretary…

Gurgaon: The Haryana department of secondary education has suspended the principal of Govt Girls Senior Secondary School (GGSSS), Jacubpura, and three teachers over alleged lapses in handling complaints of sexual harassment made by students against a science teacher, officials said.Principal Sushil Kumar and English teachers Minaxi, Bhawna and Neelam Shokeen were suspended through separate orders issued on July 13 and 14 by school education secretaries Jitender Kumar and Vijay Singh Dahiya.According to official sources, the inquiry found that the school administration, headed by Kumar, failed to follow the mandatory protocol after students raised complaints of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.…

Guwahati: On-ground work for the Maa Kamakhya Temple Access Corridor Project has begun on Nilachal Hills.Authorities have started relocating business establishments and demolishing structures that fall within the project area. A PWD official said preliminary work began earlier, but “the on-ground construction work started this week.”About 15 families within the corridor alignment zone will require temporary relocation, officials said.The project moved ahead after the Gauhati high court , in a Feb judgment , allowed state govt to proceed with the corridor. A division bench of Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury said there was no embargo on…

Kanpur: A 60-year-old man died hours after undergoing an intestine surgery at a private hospital in Kanpur, triggering a protest by his family, who alleged medical negligence and created a ruckus on the hospital premises late Wednesday.Police reached the New Shubh Hospital on Purana Shivli Road after receiving a Dial-112 call, pacified the agitated relatives and have initiated an investigation.Vikram, a resident of Durgapurwa under Nawabganj police station limits, said his father, Satyanarayan Nishad (60), had been suffering from severe abdominal pain and gas formation and was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday. After examination, doctors advised surgery, saying he…

Ludhiana: Three members of a Machhiwara-based family were killed and two others suffered critical injuries after the SUV they were travelling in collided head-on with a canter truck near Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday morning, while they were on their way back to Punjab.The deceased included 65-year-old Santokh Singh Bajwa, a commission agent (arhtiya) and sheller unit owner from Irak village near Machhiwara; Harjeet Singh, 60, of Hadiwal village; and Bhupinder Kaur. The injured, Mukand Singh Bainipal and his nephew Ladi Singh, are undergoing treatment.Sources said Bainipal owns agricultural land in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, and has business interests…

Mangaluru: CCB sleuths of the Mangaluru City Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers and seized 5.1 kg of MDMA worth an estimated Rs 5.2 crore.The accused were intercepted in Bagalkot district while allegedly transporting the narcotics from Delhi to Bengaluru as part of a larger interstate drug supply network.City police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH told reporters Thursday that the breakthrough came during the investigation of an earlier case registered at Surathkal police station.On June 25, acting on credible information, Mangaluru CCB raided a house near Kulaigudde Water Tank in Surathkal and arrested Annappa Swamy alias Manu, who was allegedly…

Mandya: The state govt on Thursday released 500 cusecs of water from the KRS reservoir into the Visvesvaraya Canal (VC) to replenish lakes and ponds and ensure drinking water, in the Cauvery command area. The govt has clarified that the release is exclusively for drinking water purposes and not for irrigation, directing farmers not to utilise the water for agriculture.The decision follows sustained protests by farmers across Mandya district, who were demanding the immediate release of water into the canal network to protect standing crops, particularly sugarcane, from the prolonged dry spell.Speaking to TOI, K Raghuram, superintendent engineer, KRS dam,…

The Authority has already allotted 120 industrial plots for the park Noida: The medical device park coming up in Sector 28 will be a “major manufacturing hub”, providing an end-to-end MedTech ecosystem in north India, Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) additional CEO Shailendra Bhatia told an investors’ meet on Thursday.“The Authority has already allotted 120 industrial plots and over 20 companies have started construction of their manufacturing units,” Bhatia told a gathering at MedTech Investors’ Meet at India Expo Mart.Spread over 350 acres, the park is located 3km from Noida International Airport, connecting it to global and domestic markets.It…

Pune: A 65-year-old building contractor was found hanging from the ceiling fan at around 8 am on Thursday in his house at Gultekdi, Market Yard.He purportedly wrote two suicide notes naming five persons, including a BJP worker, the wife of a former MLA and others, the Swargate police said.Senior inspector Yashwant Nikam of Swargate police told TOI, “He pasted these notes on the wall of his house. These notes state his financial transactions and property deals with five different persons, including a builder. After studying the notes and studying the circumstances, we can confirm that it is a case of…