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Belagavi: A 25-year-old pregnant woman was detected positive for Covid-19 in Belagavi. With this detection, the health department has jumped into action. District health and family welfare officer Dr Ishwar Gadad held a press conference and urged children and elderly people to be careful.Speaking to media on Saturday, Dr Ishwar Gadad said that the number of Covid-19 cases in the state has been increasing over the past 20 days, with one case reported in Belagavi. A pregnant woman in Belagavi district tested positive for the virus, and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with sensitive health should be vigilant,…

Kanpur: Sandhya Yadav’s four wicket haul enabled Cricket Association of Lucknow to defeat KCA (Blue) by five wickets, ensuring their place in the final of the Dr Gaur Hari Singhania Memorial state level women cricket championship at Kamla Club ground on Saturday.Batting first, KCA (Blue) scored 88 runs, with Anjali Rawat contributing 25. Sandhya claimed four wickets for 17 runs. In response, the Lucknow side chased down the target, reaching 89 for five wickets in 25.2 overs, with Devyani Sharma scoring 24. For the Kanpur team, Diksha Kushwaha took three wickets for 24 runs. KCA secretary Kaushal Kumar Singh awarded…

Ludhiana: A long stretch of Buddha Dariya, from Bhukhari Khurd to Tajpur Road, has begun to breathe again, with the foul smell gone and the once-black waters now clearing. However, violations persist.Some dairy unit owners continue to dump cow dung waste into the drain near Tajpur Road, undoing cleanup efforts.Rajya Sabha MP Balbir Singh Seechewal said despite action being taken, including disconnection of illegal drainage connections and FIRs registered against violators, some continue to exploit loopholes and discharge waste into the Buddha Dariya whenever they get the chance.Seechewal has now asked the animal husbandry department officials to conduct a survey…

Mangaluru: Four Instagram pages and one Facebook page were deactivated for allegedly posting provocative and inflammatory content aimed at inciting communal hatred and promoting unlawful activities.The Instagram pages — vhp_bajrangadal_ashoknagar and shankha_nada were booked by Urwa police station under sections 353(1) and 353(2) BNS. Another Instagram page, _dj_bharath_2008, was booked by Kavoor police station under the same sections.The page karaavali_official was booked by Mangaluru South police station under sections 196, 351(3), and 353(2) of the BNS. Meanwhile, a case against the Facebook page Aashiq Maikala was registered at Barke police station.Mangaluru City police commissioner Anupam Agrawal confirmed that all the…

Mysuru: Students of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) have claimed that the varsity has stopped conducting contact classes and issuing study materials. Instead, students are asked to read the e-content sent to them.Students say it fails to serve the purpose of the distance education system. According to university insiders, earlier, contact classes were conducted for candidates registered for undergraduate courses on weekends, while contact classes were conducted for postgraduate students in major cities like Mysuru, Bengaluru, Mangaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad, Kalaburugi, etc. The candidates were provided with high-quality study materials.However, no such classes are being conducted, nor are study materials provided, causing…

Noida: Police commissioner Laxmi Singh on Saturday suspended ACP (traffic) Pawan Kumar and issued a show-cause notice to DCP (traffic) Lakhan Singh Yadav for lapses in traffic management.Disciplinary actions were also initiated against one traffic inspector, two sub-inspectors, five head constables and four constables for negligence in duty.While the details of the lapses that led to the disciplinary actions were not immediately clear, police sources indicated that traffic bottlenecks triggered by a sudden dust storm and rainfall earlier this week may have prompted the crackdown.An official statement issued by the department, however, stated that the police commissioner had directed senior…

Pune: Cooperative housing societies can apply for deemed conveyance online from Monday through the state cooperation department’s dedicated portal — PRATYAY MahaBhumi — launched earlier this week.The new system eliminates the need for multiple visits to deputy registrar’s office, allowing over 70,000 eligible societies to complete the entire process — from submission to certification — of procuring deemed conveyance digitally, said a senior official of the state cooperation department.Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the PRATYAY MahaBhumi portal, a part of the state cooperation department’s e-governance initiative. Expected to start operations next week, it will handle every stage of the deemed…

Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday urged the Centre to provide financial assistance to revive 10,000 hectares of khazan paddy lands to provide livelihoods to people by boosting basic activities such as agriculture, pisciculture, and salt panning.Sawant attended the 10th governing council meeting of the NITI Aayog at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sawant said that the state’s economy is growing at 9.17% with its per capita income nearly 2.5 times the national average.“In Goa, there are about 10,000 hectares of khazan paddy lands affected by saline water due to lack of…

Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann put forth a long list of demands at Niti Aayog’s governing council meeting on Saturday — one that primarily sought an increased share for the state in its river waters, more funds from the Centre, and greater representation of the state’s officers in Chandigarh administration and Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB).Mann made a special case for the state’s river waters, accusing BBMB of bias. He said BBMB ignored Punjab’s interests by deciding to release additional water to Haryana despite his govt’s objections, deeming it against the law as it was done without Punjab’s consent.Mann…

Lucknow: A day after attacking a CBI officer with bow and arrow in Lucknow, 65-year-old Dinesh Murmu told police he had harboured a grudge against him for over three decades. “I am not sorry.I lost everything because of the CBI — my job, respect, livelihood. I waited 32 years for this,” he told the police during interrogation.Murmu, a former Indian Railways employee in Bihar’s Munger district, was arrested on Friday after he shot an arrow at ASI Virendra Singh outside the CBI office on Naval Kishore Road in Hazratganj. Singh sustained a 5cm wound on the left side of his…