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Rajkot: A social media influencer named Bhavin Gajera, popularly known as Banni Gajera, has been booked for using offensive language in video posts. A resident of Mota Gundala village of Jetpur taluka in Rajkot district, Gajera has been booked several times for offences of this type. The latest complaint — by Bharat Dholariya, a businessman who runs a water filter plant in Gondal — was filed at Gondal City B Division police station, alleging that Gajera’s posts could incite discord in society.The FIR states that on April 18, Gajera uploaded a video on Facebook making allegations against Dholariya and his…

Ranchi: She is 17 and learning to manoeuvre her financial challenges to pursue her dreams of cracking the civil services someday. Meet, Shobita Bilung, a tribal girl from the non-descript Korongo village in the remote Simdega district, who sells “thongas” (paper containers) at sweet shops and roadside carts in Morabadi to fund her textbooks and living expenses while pursuing an undergraduate programme in economics (honours) at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University (DSPMU) (to be renamed as Veer Budhu Bhagat University).In 2022, she scored 80.80% in the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) matriculation examination and was among the 10 top from…

Surat: A couple of months after various district level diamond associations in the state put their demands to chief minister Bhupendra Patel, the state govt announced a support package for unemployed diamond artisans and diamond units affected by the global slowdown.The govt announced support towards school fees, loan interest and electricity duty.Some 12 lakh workers are employed by the diamond industry in Surat and other parts of the state. The industry has been in crisis for three years as demand and prices of natural diamonds have fallen significantly. Due to war and conflicts between countries and a slowdown in major…

Vadodara: A team of officials from the mines and minerals department was attacked on Thursday night while returning from Ranchhodpura village near Godhra after investigating a complaint of illegal sand mining.Although no mining activity was detected, the officials were targeted with stones and threats by unidentified people.Acting on a tip-off about illegal sand extraction from the Kun river, five officials were dispatched in two separate vehicles to Ranchhodpura. After parking their vehicles at a distance, they walked to the riverbed to inspect the area. Their search yielded no evidence of mining—no machinery or sand removal activity was observed.However, while the…

Gorakhpur: The mortuary at AIIMS Gorakhpur has been given green light to commence medico-legal autopsy services, following inspection by a committee constituted by the Gorakhpur chief medical officer Rajesh Jha, deputy director of regional forensic science laboratory, Sanjay Kumar Pandey, Cantt police circle officer, Yogendra Singh and additional professor and head of forensic medicine department, AIIMS Gorakhpur, Manoj Parchake. Also present during the inspection were deputy CMO, Ashwini Chaurasia and associate professor and in charge of mortuary services, AIIMS, Ashish Saraf.After thorough review of the facilities, the committee expressed satisfaction with the mortuary setup and recommended that medico-legal autopsy services…

A Thane court sentenced Bablu Shaikh to ten years in jail THANE: A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to ten years of rigorous imprisonment by a Special POCSO Court in Thane for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl nearly 12 years ago. The accused, Bablu—also known as Mohammad Mustapha Imtiyaz Shaikh—was 20 years old when the offence took place. He has been convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The assault occurred on 6 July 2013, when the accused intercepted the girl on her way home from school…

T’puram: Addressing the long-standing demand of the loco pilots, Southern railway will equip 150 locomotives with toilets by the end of the year.After a series of protests and consequent criticism from different quarters, the railways had installed waterless urinals in nine WAG 9 locomotives of freight trains. The demand for toilets in locomotives was intensified by loco pilots after women started joining as assistant loco pilots. Express and goods trains are operated by a loco pilot and an assistant loco pilot and the crew often drink less water to avoid the need to use restrooms, risking their health.The change, though…

Kolkata: Bengal BJP expects visits by PM Narendra Modi and Union home Minister Amit Shah next week to encourage the workers and lift their spirits, which have taken a hit since the Lok Sabha elections.There has been dissatisfaction growing in state BJP ranks as well, says a senior neta, especially at a time when state unit president Sukanta Majumdar’s tenure has been over and no successor has been named yet. At such a time, political analysts view the visits as major tactical moves before the Bengal assembly elections.Modi is scheduled to visit north Bengal on May 29, with stops at…

Mumbai: Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a chain of hospitals from South India, made its “Mumbai debut” by opening a 300-bedded super-specialty hospital in neighbouring Thane city.In Juhu, a multi-storeyed building is coming up within the 330-bedded Nanavati Max Hospital complex, set to more than double the present bed strength. Civil work on the proposed 1,000-bedded hospital by D-Mart owners in Borivli East is progressing. Clearly, hectic activity is ongoing in the city’s hospital space.While announcing the BMC budget in Feb, commissioner Bhushan Gagrani said the city has 15,302 beds in govt hospitals and 31,076 beds in private hospitals,…

New Delhi: In three separate operations, Delhi Police seized drugs, including pharmaceutical substances, worth over Rs 5 crore and arrested 10 people. In the first case, narcotics, including opium, charas and heroin worth approximately Rs 5 crore in the international market, were smuggled from Nepal and Manipur. According to police, on April 15, 52-year-old Jasmer Singh was apprehended for allegedly trafficking opium and charas from Nepal to Delhi and the rest of National Capital Region. Based on a tip-off, officers had set a trap in Burari, where Singh was expected to deliver a large consignment in a car. He was…