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Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday assured that Goa govt would provide compensation for crop losses damaged due to scanty rainfall.The compensation would be released based on reports submitted by agriculture officials following field inspections, he said.“Agriculture department officials, including the zonal agriculture officer (ZAO) and other field staff shall conduct surveys to assess the extent of crop damage before submitting their findings to govt. Once the survey report is submitted, govt will process compensation for farmers based on the assessed losses,” Sawant said on the sidelines of an event here.Goa experienced its fourth consecutive day of a non-rainy…
Chandigarh: Emphasising that the matters concerning Gurbani and Sikh religious affairs should be addressed through Panthic institutions and established Sikh traditions rather than through state legislation, a section of Sikh scholars, intellectuals and legal experts on Wednesday demanded the repeal of the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, 2026.The unanimous view emerged after detailed deliberations during a seminar on “Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Act 2026 and the Supremacy of the Shabad Guru: Panthic Concerns, Challenges and Future Policy”. The seminar was organised under the aegis of the Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Chandigarh.The seminar…
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD) has declared the main road passing through Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s Mohammad Ali Jauhar University campus in Rampur a public road and installed signboards at the university’s main gate stating that it is open for public use, according to news agency ANI.The 3-km four-lane cement concrete (CC) road was built by the PWD during the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government in 2016-17 at a cost of around Rs 17.16 crore.According to officials on Thursday, the road passes through the 450-acre university campus from one end to the other. However, public access…
PATNA: Three people, including the wife of a railway employee and her alleged lover, have been arrested for allegedly plotting his murder by hiring a contract killer who shot him aboard the Jansadharan Express in Bihar’s Katihar Rail District last month.The victim, Devkumar Gunjan, was shot by unidentified assailants on June 11 while travelling on the Jansadharan Express near Badlaghat under the jurisdiction of the Mansi Railway Police Station. He suffered serious injuries and later died during treatment.Police registered a case at the Mansi Rail Police Station on June 12 under Section 309(6) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023,…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only JAIPUR: A senior teacher, Saraswati Meena, at the Government Senior Secondary School in Liwali village of Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district, was suspended by the state education department following serious complaints against her. Officials said locals had alleged that students were strip-searched after the teacher found that Rs 500 was missing from a Class 9 classroom. However, officials from the district education department said the allegations were found to be false. Meena Kumari Lasariya, chief district education officer, Sawai Madhopur, said, “After learning about the incident, we immediately probed the matter and found that the…
Indian point guard Vaishnavi Pardeshi in action against Indonesia in the U-18 Asia Cup on Wednesday (Pic Credit FIBA) Nagpur: Viha Reddy and Mahek Sharma netted identical 15 points as Taarushee Tarun (14) and Vaishnavi Pardeshi (11) came up with valuable contributions as India outplayed Indonesia 79-46 to enter the semifinals of the FIBA U-18 Asia Cup women’s basketball tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday.In their last league outing of the B Division championship, Indian women took an early lead and never looked back to register a facile 33-point victory and emerge as the Group A toppers to secure their…
Divy Khare| TNNBokaro: Congress MLA Shweta Singh on Wednesday yet again took up the long-pending issues of scheduled flight operations from Bokaro airport and the proposed Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC) with the Centre during her visit to New Delhi.Accompanied by state industries minister Sanjay Yadav, she met Union steel minister H D Kumaraswamy and pressed for faster progression of these projects. This was the third time in the past one-and-a-half years that the MLA met the Union minister over the same issues.Singh said, “I have urged the Centre to facilitate the launch of commercial flight services from Bokaro airport, expedite…
Surat: Around 60 Indian nationals deported by the United Arab Emirates arrived at Surat International Airport from Dubai on Wednesday aboard an Air India Express flight.The deportees travelled on Air India Express flight IX-274 after the Indian Embassy in Dubai facilitated their return by issuing emergency certificates or temporary passports. According to sources, all were deported for allegedly violating local laws and regulations in the UAE.Most of the deportees travelled to the UAE over the past few years in search of employment and were working as labourers. The majority hailed from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab, while a few were…
Varanasi: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Wednesday between the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt of India, and Sampurnanand Sanskrit University (SSU), Varanasi, to promote the development of India’s tribal communities.The MoU was signed at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Tribal Affairs in New Delhi in the presence of Ranjana Chopra, secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs; Anant Prakash Pandey, joint secretary; Deepali Masirkar, director; and Prof. Bihari Lal Sharma, vice-chancellor of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.Under the initiative, several certificate and diploma courses have been developed by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs with the academic support of Sampurnanand…
Bar on high-rise constructions Kolkata: KMC has turned down a request from developers to give a provisional go-ahead to resume work on under-construction projects, where the audit team has not detected any safety-related issues but have found non-compliance in matters of labour and water.Representatives of Credai, an umbrella organisation of leading developers in Kolkata and the rest of Bengal, met civic officials on Wednesday to discuss the progress of the audit on the under-construction sites in the city. Work on high-rise projects has been suspended since the collapse of an under-construction warehouse at Taratala last month in which 16 people…