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Sannyasi Mondal and his wife came from Gosaba at CM’s Janatar Darbar Kolkata: A disabled man, who had travelled to Kolkata from Gosaba in a tricycle with his wife walking alongside to reach the BJP state office, sought assistance from CM Suvendu Adhikari at Janatar Darbar on Tuesday for a ‘room under a roof’, enrollment of his wife in the Annapurna Yojana scheme and a battery-operated cycle van to earn a living.Sannyasi Mondal and his wife began their journey five days ago from a remote village in Sunderban’s Gosaba. Covering around 90 km in five days, the couple spent nights…

Rajouri , June 3 : A joint anti-terror operation by the Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) entered its twelfth day on Wednesday in the dense forest areas of Gambhir Mughlan and Dorimal in the Manjakote sector of Rajouri district. The security forces are continuing efforts to track down suspected terrorists believed to be hiding in the region.The security forces were seen checking the ID cards of travellers and locals, conducting intensive search operations in the region. The operation, codenamed Operation Sheruwali, is being carried out jointly by the Army, Jammu and Kashmir…

The latest flare-up in West Asia has once again pushed Brent crude prices close to the $97-per-barrel mark. (AI image) Stock market crash today: Indian equity benchmarks, Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, tanked in trade on Wednesday as fresh tensions between US and Iran weighed on sentiment and led to crude oil prices rising.Both the Sensex and Nifty declined more than 1% as investor sentiment weakened amid growing concerns over the Iran-US conflict, continued foreign institutional investor (FII) outflows and a host of other market challenges. The decline erased more than Rs 3 lakh crore from the combined market value of…

Police are yet to register an FIR in the case as medical reports are awaited Mumbai: A couple has alleged a case of medical negligence after doctors at a south Mumbai hospital retrieved a “large surgical gauze” left inside the woman’s body during childbirth at a Dongri hospital recently. Pydhonie police have recorded statements and are awaiting medical reports and the opinion of JJ Hospital’s medical board before taking further action on what the family alleged was a cover-up by the operating gynaecologist.On May 9, Dongri residents Shams Ali Sayed and his wife welcomed a girl, but within days, the…

New Delhi: Lieutenant governor T S Sandhu has approved the reconstitution and notification of the 14-member Delhi Ridge Management Board (DRMB), as well as the constitution of a five-member standing committee under DRMB’s authority to handle rapid-response environmental interventions.However, experts have raised concerns over the composition of the new board, noting it includes senior officials from MCD, NDMC, ministry of housing and urban affairs, CPWD, Delhi Police and the land and revenue departments, giving govt representatives significant influence in decision-making.In March, Supreme Court expressed grave doubts about its efficacy, saying except three members, there is clear conflict of interest regarding…

Hyderabad: Two people were killed and another seriously injured when the car they were travelling in lost control and overturned near near Tandra of Kalwakurthy mandal n Nagarkurnool district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Bandapalli Balu (29) and Bandapalli Praveen (27), both residents of Vangoor mandal headquarters.According to police officials, the accident occurred when the car, travelling from Kalwakurthy towards Vangoor, attempted to overtake another car moving ahead of it. During the manoeuvre, the car reportedly collided with the vehicle and veered out of control before overturning on the Raichur-Kodad National Highway.Both Balu and Praveen died on the…

TNNChennai: A day after CM C Joseph Vijay taunted AIADMK as a spent force, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami launched a caustic attack on the questioning the TVK for alleged breakdown of law and order.Referring to reports that a 23 year old youth from Chennai’s Tondiarpet, named Vishnu, was beaten to death for opposing ganja sales in his locality, EPS asked if speaking out against contraband sales now invited murder. “Is this the change that was promised?” he asked in a social media post, tagging the CM’s official X handle.Accusing Vijay of functioning like a “reel hero” detached from…

Ahmedabad: The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Ahmedabad recently granted significant relief to State Bank of India (SBI) by deleting demands raised for alleged tax deduction at source (TDS) default on leave travel concession (LTC) payments, holding that the bank could not be treated as an “assessee in default” when it acted under binding interim directions of the Madras high court.The dispute related to LTC benefits extended by SBI branches in Gandhinagar and Bhavnagar during FY 2016-17 and FY 2017-18 (AY 2017-18 and AY 2018-19). In certain cases, employees undertook travel involving foreign legs. SBI computed TDS by treating the…

Three members of a crorepati family — an elderly couple and their unmarried daughter — were found dead under mysterious circumstances on the second floor of their two-storey house in the South Malaka area under the Kotwali police station limits on Tuesday. PRAYAGRAJ: Three members of a crorepati family — an elderly couple and their unmarried daughter — were found dead under mysterious circumstances on the second floor of their two-storey house in the South Malaka area under the Kotwali police station limits on Tuesday.In a related development, the body of an unidentified man, estimated to be around 38 years…

Gurgaon: A newborn girl, believed to be one or two days old, was found abandoned near the Jhajjar Bypass Road in Farukhnagar on Monday afternoon.Sombir, a resident of Sultanpur village and owner of an eatery on the Farukhnagar-Jhajjar bypass, said he found the infant at 2pm while on his way to the nearby transport office.He said he noticed an object wrapped in a white cloth, lying on a platform beneath a peepal tree. Curiosity drew him closer, and when he removed the cover, he found a baby girl tucked inside. Sombir said he immediately asked the people nearby, but no…