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Every initiative to streamline Tasmac meets with resistance from within and produces the same result: stalemate, and then status quo Chennai: Tasmac has a problem: the govt that owns it cannot control it. The first set of announcements Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay made after taking office was to shut 717 liquor shops operating within 500m of temples and schools within two weeks. After 462 closures, bar owners protested that their livelihoods were at risk. So, the drive was stalled and has not resumed yet.The revised plan, according to Tasmac sources, is a quieter retreat. For the first phase of…
Gandhinagar: The state home department has launched Operation Mule Hunt 2.0 — a coordinated campaign against cybercrime. Deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi chaired a meeting of top police officers in Gandhinagar on Monday night, and officers from districts joined through video conference, an official statement said. The statement said that orders have been issued to carry out investigations into mule accounts across all districts from Tuesday.State police chief K L N Rao and other senior police officials participated in the meeting, while police commissioners from all cities and SPs of all districts attended it, the statement added. Source link
A 23-year-old criminal carrying a reward of Rs 5,000 was arrested GURGAON: A 23-year-old criminal carrying a reward of Rs 5,000 was arrested following an encounter with the Palam Vihar Crime Branch team of Gurgaon Police in Sector 93 on Wednesday.According to police, a total of seven rounds were fired during the exchange. The accused allegedly opened fire on the Crime Branch team, firing four rounds, one of which struck the bulletproof jacket of a police personnel.The police retaliated with three rounds, and one bullet hit the accused in the leg.The accused was identified as Nitin, a resident of Jhajjar.…
Times News NetworkKanpur: A case has come to light in Narwal tehsil where a fake order was prepared to declare land as industrial in a matter that had already been dismissed by the court.The alleged fake order, prepared by scanning the SDM’s signature, had also been sent for feeding into the Khatauni. Accused peshkar Anuj Tripathi has been suspended after prima facie involvement was found during the investigation.On the directions of district magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh, an FIR has been registered against the accused employee at Narwal police station under sections 336 (3), 337 and 340 (2) of the Bharatiya…
Pune: The court of special judge S. R. Salunkhe, presiding over the Nasrapur rape and murder trial, recorded the depositions of five prosecution witnesses on Tuesday. As the prosecution continued leading evidence, several electronic and physical exhibits were formally brought on record.According to the court’s order sheet, the deposition of prosecution witness (PW) 14, which had remained pending since Monday, was concluded. The court also took on record documentation regarding witness summons and a letter concerning a seized digital video recorder (DVR), which was produced as an “article” (exhibit) in the case.During the proceedings, multiple sets of photographs and pen…
CCP workers clear the dead fish from the pond. There were empty milk packets, wafer packets, and empty water bottles found along with the dead fish Panaji: A fresh fish mortality incident has been reported at the pond in Campal Lakeview Colony, Miramar, with scores of dead fish found floating in the waterbody connected to the St Inez Creek on Tuesday.Workers of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) cleared the dead fish from the pond. Empty milk packets, potato wafer packets, and plastic water bottles were also found floating in the waterbody, highlighting concerns over pollution.CCP corporator Leonid…
Candidates seeking consideration under athletic or sports quotas must submit physical accreditation certificates to the campus sports office prior to the July deadlines Chandigarh: Panjab University will launch its online enrollment drive this week, opening portals for thousands of hopeful applicants eyeing undergraduate and vocational qualifications for the upcoming academic year.Prospective undergraduate students can submit applications starting Wednesday, June 3, while portal access for postgraduate admissions, specialized diplomas, and advanced research streams will go live the following week on June 10.University administrators confirmed that all applicants, including those who sat for campus entrance examinations between April and June, must file…
Lucknow: Signalling an early start to its campaign for UP Assembly elections, BJP ally Rashtriya Lok Dal has launched a two-pronged strategy of organisational restructuring and grassroots mobilisation in its stronghold of western Uttar Pradesh. Days after the party’s national executive resolved to overhaul its UP organisational structure, the RLD has lined up major public rallies of Union minister and party president Jayant Chaudhary in Shamli on June 4 and Moradabad on June 10, to bolster its support base and expand into areas where it lacks dominance. The first rally is in Kabaraut village of Shamli Sadar constituency, represented by…
PATNA: A coaching institute run by educator Faisal Khan, popularly known as ‘Khan Sir’, was allegedly vandalised and pelted with stones in Bihar’s Patna on Tuesday night, news agency PTI reported. Officials said Khan also claimed that firing took place during the incident, but this could not be confirmed by the police. The incident occurred at the Khan Global Coaching Institute in the Kadamkuan police station area. “We received information around 10.10 pm on Tuesday about stone-pelting and damage to property at Khan Global Coaching Institute under the jurisdiction of Kadamkuan Police Station. A police team was immediately sent to…
Jaipur: A 35-year-old woman was found dead in a semi-nude condition in a forest department area on the outskirts of Sridungargarh in Bikaner district Tuesday, triggering a police investigation. Her husband is missing and is being treated as a suspect as police probe the circumstances surrounding her death.According to police, a group of morning walkers spotted the body lying in the forest area and immediately alerted authorities. A police team rushed to the spot, cordoned off the area and began collecting evidence. Given the sensitive nature of the case, a Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team was also called in to…