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Varanasi: On the directions of the Chief Judicial Magistrate court, Varanasi, the Rohania police have registered a murder case against a BHU doctor and professor in Anaesthesia department and one unidentified person, in connection with the death of Jitendra Yadav in July 2019. The FIR was lodged following a complaint by the deceased’s brother, Dharmendra Yadav, who alleged that the anaesthetist threw Jitendra into Ahraura dam in Mirzapur to kill him, after Jitendra allegedly recorded an objectionable video of the anaesthetist. Rohania police station in-charge Raju Singh said that the FIR was registered on Feb 7 against the anaesthetist and…
ULHASNAGAR: The MMRDA has instructed the road contractor to carry out repair and reconstruction work on newly constructed cement roads worth Rs 52 crore in Ulhasnagar, following multiple complaints about substandard construction. The corrective action covers two important road stretches—from Kailas Colony to Netaji Chowk and from New English School to Lal Chakki—where cracks and surface damage were noticed at several locations. Following an inspection, the MMRDA directed the contractor to rectify the defects at their own cost. As part of the repair work, cracks at 21 different locations were filled, while nearly 12 cement concrete road panels found to…
Kolkata: Expect warmer days from the coming weekend, when the maximum temperature could touch around 30 degrees. Met officials said there was no significant mercury jump in the next few days, and the temperature rise was gradual from the middle of this week.The minimum temperature in Kolkata, which hovered around the 14 degrees mark in the past two days, reached 15.8 degrees on Monday, still below the normal mark by 1.1 degrees. The maximum temperature saw a slight climb down to 27.2 degrees, 1.7 degrees below the normal mark.”While we do not expect any significant change in the temperature in…
The Upper House of Parliament will resume discussion of the Budget, while the Lower House is likely to begin the debate after a stalemate between the opposition and the ruling parties.According to the List of the Business, in Lok Sabha, MPs Azad Kirti Jha and Robert Bruce C will present the Reports of the Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilisers. Jitin Prasada will make a statement regarding the status of implementation of recommendations contained in the 188th Report of the Standing Committee on Commerce on ‘Comprehensive Strategy to Map Major Products and Countries to Maximise Exports and Minimise Imports’.In the…
MUMBAI: Just two days after being named the Mahayuti candidate for the upcoming mayoral election, Ghatkopar corporator Ritu Tawade is set for an unopposed victory, paving the way for her to take charge as Mumbai’s mayor. The election is scheduled to be held on Wednesday at noon. Tawade is poised to become the city’s eighth woman mayor. Mumbai last had a woman at the helm between 2019 and 2022. Source link
New Delhi: Delhi High Court Monday ordered police to provide round-the-clock security to a lawyer who was allegedly beaten up inside a courtroom in the Tis Hazari complex while proceedings were on.Seeking a report from police and the district judge of Tis Hazari, a special bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justices V Kameswar Rao and Nitin Sambre noted that such an incident not only threatens individual lawyers but also erodes the dignity and propriety of courts.HC said if such an incident occurred, it was a serious matter, and directed the DCP (North) to provide security to the…
Bengaluru: The shortage of loco pilots in South Western Railway (SWR) is expected to be eased, with the zone set to go ahead with the training of 590 assistant loco pilot (ALP) candidates from next month.According to SWR, a total of 1,162 ALP candidates were recruited by the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) and 590 of them are expected to join training by March 15.Additionally, the zone will promote several of its current employees to ALPs, for which the training has already begun.”Already 502 candidates selected under the promotional quota are under training in SWR, and another 70 promotional candidates will…
Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao took at a dig at the govt and urged the voters who benefited from the Congress welfare scheme to support its candidates, while asking the rest to vote for the BRS. Stating that no section of society in the state is happy with the govt, he said it was the right time to teach the Congress a lesson by backing the BRS, as the ruling party had betrayed the people after coming to power.He called upon voters to question the govt about the promises made to the people during the 2023 assembly elections.…
Chennai: Madras high court stalled the reconstruction of a 100-year-old stone mandapam (hall) located inside the Chinthamani Vinayagar Vagaiyara Arulmighu Subramania Swamy temple in Kancheepuram, which was demolished on the ground that it was not in accordance with the ‘vastu’ principle.”On perusal of the photographs produced by the temple authorities, the demolition simply seems to be unconscionable and, to the naked eye, the mandapam seems perfect,” Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy said on Monday.The issue pertains to a plea moved by S Vasantha and V Shanmugavel seeking to restrain the temple authorities from reconstruction on the eastern side, affecting the entrance…
Ahmedabad: Many Amdavadis are currently struggling with the same dilemma: can they get away with turning their fans on full speed or do they need to get their air-conditioners serviced? It is not even mid-Feb, yet the mercury has already soared to 33°C, feeling like the start of summer. However, night temperatures still hover around 16°C, prompting citizens to use a thin blanket in the early hours. This double season is causing many residents to fall ill.Physicians in the city indicate a rise in cases of bronchitis, mild fever, body ache, and sore throat. On Monday, the city recorded a…