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Sanitation workers protested outside the Noida Authority office in Sector 6 on Monday Noida: A group of sanitation workers on Monday protested outside Noida Authority office in Sector 6, alleging that they are being made to pay Rs 5,000 a year for medical insurance. The workers said the Authority had earlier told them it would bear the insurance cost, but has now decided to pay only half the amount, with the remaining Rs 5,000 being deducted from the workers’ salaries.Noida has around 4,800 sanitation workers.Last month, the Authority signed a contract with SBI General Insurance to provide medical insurance coverage…

Police are searching for the accused Pune: A woman allegedly wooed a 22-year-old final-year pharmacy student from Daund into a honey trap after befriending him over the phone, and her six accomplices allegedly assaulted and robbed him when he met her the next day, on May 27.The accused allegedly extorted Rs 10,000 from him and threatened to implicate him in a molestation case unless he paid Rs1 lakh. The student suffered severe injuries on head, face, chest and back. He approached the Daund police on Sunday after treatment at a hospital.The police have registered a case against the woman and…

Panaji: The Enough is Enough (EiE) movement has formally written to Goa governor, Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju, demanding an independent inquiry into what it describes as the illegal continuation of offshore casino vessels in the Mandovi river, allegedly in violation of provisions of the Goa Public Gambling Act.In a detailed representation submitted by Justice Ferdino Rebello (Retd.), convenor of the movement, stated that amendments introduced under Section 13B of the Goa Public Gambling Act, 1976, make it clear that gaming vessels must operate within the territorial waters of Goa and not continue indefinitely inside the Mandovi river.Territorial waters refers to…

The panel was told that Punjab produces 384 lakh litres of milk daily and has the highest per capita availability in the country Mohali: A 31-member parliamentary delegation Monday visited the Verka milk plant in Mohali to review dairy infrastructure, procurement systems and processing operations in Punjab.The delegation, comprising MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, is part of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing on a week-long study tour covering Srinagar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Shimla and Haryana to assess ground realities and identify policy gaps in key sectors.Hosted by Milkfed Punjab, the team was welcomed by…

Lucknow: Check whether you have already paid the user charge for garbage collection along with your house tax. If yes, you do not need to pay it monthly to the private contractor collecting door-to-door fees.The advice came during a review meeting at the Zone-4 office on Monday, where Mayor Sushma Kharkwal discussed complaints of double charging.Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) allows property owners to pay the user charge either annually with their property tax or separately through LMC supervisors and private collection partners. However, residents, who have already paid the charge with their property tax, are often asked to pay again…

Patna: JD(U) has decided to convene its national council meeting in Patna on June 21 to formally ratify Nitish Kumar’s re-election as the party’s national president, reinforcing organisational unity and sharpening its political roadmap ahead.Nitish, former Bihar CM and the party’s central face, was unanimously re-elected as national president on March 24 after no other nomination was filed.Party national spokesperson Rajeev Ranjan Prasad on Monday said the national council meeting will be held at Karpoori Sabhaghar, Patna, from 3pm to 4pm. Along with the ratification of the presidential election, the council will take up key organisational resolutions aimed at strengthening…

Alwar: Two bike riders were burnt alive after an 11,000 kV electric wire snapped and fell on them on the Dhalogala Road of Dhiroda under Tahla police station area in Alwar district Monday evening. The bike was also completely reduced to ashes in the incident.According to information received, the two were travelling on a bike on the Dalogala Road of Dhiroda in the Tahla police station area when an 11,000 kV electricity line wire suddenly snapped and fell on the road. Both bike riders were severely burnt after coming under the high-voltage current and died on the spot.A large number…

Nagpur: Vidarbha has emerged as a key battleground for the upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, with BJP-led Mahayuti and opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) facing off across several local authorities’ constituencies amid signs of rebellion, concerns over cross-voting and intense mobilisation of elected representatives.The nomination process on Monday saw both alliances stage parallel shows of strength in Nagpur, Amravati, Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Wardha, Bhandara and Gondia.The Nagpur Legislative Council by-election will witness a straight fight between BJP candidate Dr Rajiv Potdar and Congress nominee Atul Londhe. The contest is being closely watched in Nagpur, a BJP bastion which houses headquarters of…

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren Ranchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Monday directed officials to work out plans to introduce e-bicycles to replace the conventional ones for distribution among govt school students in rural areas to curb dropout rates.He also called for comprehensive plan to revamp skill development programmes in the state to align them with existing market needs in order to make local youths future ready across various sectors.Hemant chaired a review meeting of the Scheduled Tribe, Scheduled Caste, Minority and Backward Class Welfare department at Project Building in the afternoon. Ministers Chamra Linda and Hafizul Hasan and senior…

Varanasi: Twenty-nine years after a custodial death, a Varanasi court on Monday sentenced the then in-charge of Sundarpur police outpost, the investigating officer and the doctor who conducted the postmortem examination.Senior prosecution officer (CB-CID) Ganga Sharan said Additional District and Sessions Judge/Special Judge (Anti-Corruption) Amit Kumar Tiwari sentenced Dr KK Jain, who conducted the post-mortem, to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 40,000, retired sub-inspector Narendra Pratap Singh to 10 years’ jail term and a penalty of Rs 31,000, and investigating officer Radheyshyam Singh to six months’ term and a fine of Rs 1,000.The court directed that 50…