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Nagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at KachipuraNagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at KachipuraNagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at KachipuraNagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at KachipuraNagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at KachipuraNagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at KachipuraNagpur Municipal Corporation anti-encroachment drive at Kachipura Nagpur: Acting on the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court’s Aug 4 directive, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Monday demolished four bridges constructed illegally over a nullah in Kachipura-East Shankar Nagar to open up the water channel and removed obstructions restricting natural flow of stormwater.Officials said cement concrete slabs had effectively covered portions of the nullah and…
Protesters clashed with police near the Jharkhand assembly on Monday. RANCHI: Protest by job aspirants over alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment examinations turned violent near the state assembly on Monday, with police using water cannons, tear gas and lathi-charge after demonstrators breached multiple barricades.Several protesters and four policemen were injured, officials said.The protesters broke through barricades and reached Gate No. 1 of the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha, where they staged a sit-in and refused to leave until their demands were addressed. Police later carried out another lathi-charge to disperse them.The march began around 10.30am from outside the old assembly building as…
Vadodara: Dahod police on Monday arrested 13 people for their alleged involvement in stone-pelting during a World Tribal Day rally near Muval crossing. Police said 10 of those arrested are office-bearers and workers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).According to police, one of the accused, Krishna Charel, is the AAP state vice-president of its media cell.Four policemen, including a sub-inspector, were injured in the stone-pelting incident on Sunday. Police said a group participating in the rally allegedly blocked the road using DJ systems, resulting in a traffic jam.When police tried to clear the road, some AAP workers who were participating…
The 2.5-km route was decked out in the colours of the national flag, with thousands of people waving the Tricolour and raising slogans of “Vande Mataram” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” Gorakhpur: The city witnessed a vibrant display of patriotism on Monday as CM Yogi Adityanath led a Tiranga Yatra from the municipal corporation premises to Railway Station Chowk.The 2.5-km route was decked out in the colours of the national flag, with thousands of people waving the Tricolour and raising slogans of “Vande Mataram” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”. School and college students, NCC cadets, representatives of social and trade…
Foot over bridge at East Fort T’puram: In a fresh attempt to make foot overbridges more pedestrian-friendly, the city corporation is planning to install escalators at the East Fort foot overbridge (FOB), replacing the conventional stairway approach that has failed to attract regular users since the facility was commissioned.The civic body is also considering constructing a new foot overbridge equipped with escalators at the busy Medical College Junction, where heavy pedestrian movement and traffic congestion have long raised safety concerns.The proposal was discussed during a joint inspection conducted by the corporation’s town planning standing committee and other standing committee members…
On Monday the maximum temperature surged to 33.2°C, shooting past the normal mark after six days Kolkata: Northern parts of the city recorded heavy downpours ranging between 90 mm and 150 mm, with Belgachhia (150 mm) and Dum Dum (135 mm) bearing the brunt of the rain. In sharp contrast, southern pockets received significantly lighter rainfall ranging between 25 mm and 65 mm, with areas like Kalighat and Ballygunge recording just 25 mm and 30 mm respectively on Monday night.The rain left roads waterlogged outside Kolkata airport’s arrival terminal and several stretches of VIP Road, severely slowing airport-bound traffic. Traffic…
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir has recorded 9,64,015 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) under the Udyam Registration Portal (URP) and Udyam Assist Portal (UAP), with micro enterprises accounting for almost the entire registered enterprise base in the Union Territory.According to data presented in the Rajya Sabha, J&K has 9,60,296 micro enterprises, 3,494 small enterprises and 225 medium enterprises registered on the two portals. The data covers 20 districts of the Union Territory.Sector-wise, 2,88,420 enterprises are engaged in manufacturing, while 3,21,711 are in the service sector and 3,53,884 are trading enterprises.The figures were provided by Minister of State for Micro, Small…
The order calls for childhood immunisations to be given at separate medical visits “to the maximum extent feasible” US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking sweeping changes to the country’s childhood vaccination recommendations, including reducing the number of vaccines routinely recommended for children and separating combination shots into multiple appointments.The order calls for childhood immunisations to be given at separate medical visits “to the maximum extent feasible” and directs the US government to work towards making individual measles, mumps and rubella vaccines available. The move revives Trump’s long-standing claims about vaccine safety and autism, despite decades of…
Mumbai: One trains with his body. The other trains with her mind. Vir Gahrotra (17) spends hours working on strength, flexibility and choreography for aerial-silk routines performed nearly 30ft above the ground. His sister Viha (14) can spend eight hours at a bridge table, calculating bids, reading opponents and trying to work out what they are holding before they reveal it.The Worli siblings are competing at the top of two very different disciplines. Vir won India’s first-ever gold at the Pole and Aerial Sports World Championship in Hungary last December. Last Wednesday, Viha won a world title of her own,…
The judge found the allegations “strikingly similar”, made at the same time and at a common place, indicating “prior meticulous planning”. NEW DELHI: A court, which last week acquitted former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for lack of evidence, held that the sexual harassment allegations against him were “rehearsed and well-practised as well as planted” and appeared to be part of a “deep conspiracy, which seems to be politically motivated”.Additional chief judicial magistrate Ashwani Panwar observed in the 239-page order, “The allegations appear to be imperfect to be true, seem rehearsed and…