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School buses parked in Chandigarh Chandigarh: Private schools face strict legal prosecution and potential closures unless they fix dangerous student transport zones and illegal campus modifications during the summer holidays.Chandigarh deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav issued the ultimatum to school executives following a safety audit that revealed widespread compliance failures across local private campuses.Under the new directives, all student loading and drop-offs must happen entirely inside school boundaries under adult supervision. The order addresses a growing safety hazard where buses frequently block public traffic lanes during peak hours.The administration’s crackdown also targets schools that illegally modified their properties. Investigators found…

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Provincial Medical Services Association (PMS) will elect new office-bearers on June 22 to represent members’ issues before higher authorities.The election committee secretary said on Tuesday that election officers and returning officers will be appointed in all 75 districts to conduct the polls in an open and transparent manner. Elections will be held for the central executive committee, with 10 elected representatives to be chosen, including the president, vice president, general secretary and finance secretary, along with other posts. The association has around 14,000 to 15,000 members and represents allopathic doctors and medical officers serving as permanent…

Buxar: Two children died after coming into contact with an exposed high-voltage power cable in Khilafatpur village under the Mufassil police station area in Buxar district on Tuesday. The incident triggered widespread outrage with villagers blocking a road and staging a protest against the administration, the electricity department and the thermal power plant management.According to locals, a live 440-volt power cable was lying exposed near a culvert beneath a road under construction close to the coal depot in Khilafatpur. While playing nearby, the two children accidentally came into contact with the live wire and died on the spot.The victims were…

The 20.8kg tumour was removed from a 59-year-old morbidly obese patient Jodhpur: Doctors at AIIMS Jodhpur have successfully removed a giant retroperitoneal tumour weighing 20.8 kg from a 59-year-old morbidly obese patient, in a rare and highly complex surgery that lasted more than eight hours. The tumour, measuring 44×37×24 cm, is believed to be among the largest retroperitoneal liposarcomas reported in India and worldwide. The patient, who weighed 160 kg, was admitted to the Department of General Surgery with complaints of abdominal fullness and persistent pain for nearly a year. After detailed clinical evaluation and imaging studies, doctors diagnosed a…

Bokaro: An alleged associate of fugitive gangster Prince Khan was arrested for extortion and criminal intimidation, police said on Tuesday. The accused Rakesh Kumar, 37, had allegedly targeted BMW Industries Limited, which is setting up a greenfield steel complex in Balidih at a cost of Rs 803.47 crore. The company at present has seven functional steel processing centres in Jamshedpur and Howrah in West Bengal.Rakesh, a resident of Sector-2C in Bokaro, was arrested from Balidih area and was remanded to judicial custody later in the day.Suresh Kumar Singh, plant manager of the upcoming facility, had registered a formal complaint on…

Varanasi: A District and Sessions Court in Ballia on Tuesday extended the judicial custody to 14 days of Navin Singh, who was arrested on May 19 with five firearms allegedly used in the killing of Chandranath Rathi, personal assistant to West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari.On May 20, Fefna police produced Navin before the CJM court, which rejected his bail plea and sent him to a 14-day judicial custody. He subsequently moved the District and Sessions Court for bail.District Govt Counsel (Criminal) Sanjeev Singh said Navin’s bail plea was not pressed by his lawyers. He added that the CBI team, which…

CPM alleged that BJP MLA B B Gopakumar was allowed to speak during walkout proceedings in violation of assembly procedures T’puram: Opposition staged a protest in the assembly on Tuesday, alleging that assembly rules were bypassed when BJP MLA B B Gopakumar was allowed to speak during the walkout proceedings.The controversy arose after leader of opposition Pinarayi Vijayan completed his walkout speech on an adjournment motion notice. Under assembly convention, parties that have sought permission for an adjournment motion are given an opportunity to make walkout speeches.As Gopakumar rose to speak, CPI MLA Rajan objected citing assembly rules. After Rajan…

Before and after 4K restoration of ‘Subarnarekha’ by NFDC-NFAIBefore and after 4K restoration of ‘Bari Theke Paliye’ by NFDC-NFAIBefore and after 4K restoration of ‘Subarnarekha’ by NFDC-NFAIBefore and after 4K restoration of ‘Bari Theke Paliye’ by NFDC-NFAIBefore and after 4K restoration of ‘Subarnarekha’ by NFDC-NFAI Kolkata: The complete feature filmography of Ritwik Ghatak’s has undergone a 4K restoration by NFDC-NFAI in honour of the film-maker’s birth centenary.The project utilised diverse film elements safeguarded by NFDC-NFAI and the West Bengal State Film Archive. To faithfully preserve the director’s unique visual style, National Award-winning cinematographer Avik Mukhopadhyay oversaw the colour-grading of each…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a dependent married daughter could not be excluded from the definition of ‘family’ and would be entitled to seek employment or allotment of a ration shop if any of her parents died in harness.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe faulted a provision of a UP govt order relating to allotment of PDS shop on dependent quota for excluding married daughters from the definition of ‘family’ and said it breached the doctrine of equality embedded in the constitutional framework. “Exclusion of a married daughter from the definition of ‘family’ cannot…

A file pic of a Metro rake stationed on the elevated Ghodbunder Road corridor months after trial runs were flagged off by CM Devendra Fadnavis. Officials are now targeting partial operations by Nov 2026 Thane: After missing multiple deadlines since this Jan, MMRDA is eyeing launch of partial operations of Metro 4 and 4A between Gaimukh and Cadbury Junction in Thane in Nov, officials said. Sources said the Feb parapet slab crash in Mulund that killed one caused crucial ancillary works required before safety trials to be delayed by two months. The monsoon is now likely to stall the work…