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Cuttack: Orissa high court has quashed disciplinary proceedings and punishment imposed on senior judicial officer Lalit Kumar Dash, holding that the findings against him were unsupported by evidence and based largely on presumptions.A division bench of Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak and Justice Sibo Sankar Mishra passed the order on May 27 while considering Dash’s petition, challenging the departmental inquiry and punishment order issued against him in Feb 2023.Dash, presently serving as additional-cum-special judge (Vigilance), Balasore, had joined the Odisha Judicial Service in 1997, and later rose through the ranks. He was appointed registrar (judicial) of the Orissa high court on…
ERODE: The Erode North police arrested a man on Thursday for possessing contraband drugs worth Rs 1 lakh intended for illicit sale near a private college in Erode. The arrested man has been identified as A Kalaiselvan, 30, of Muniyappan Kovil Street in Manickampalayam in Erode district. Acting on a tip-off about the illegal sale of narcotic pills near the college, a special police patrol team rushed to the area and kept it under surveillance. During the operation, officers noticed Kalaiselvan behaving suspiciously and intercepted him. A search led to the seizure of 3,000 restricted pharmaceutical tablets from his possession.…
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh is gearing up for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls.On Friday, the state’s chief electoral officer Pawan Kumar Sain briefed on the schedule and procedures for the polls to senior govt officials here, an official statement said.The election has been necessitated by the expiry of the term of one member representing Arunachal on June 23.Sain said the notification for the election will be issued on June 1, and the last date for filing nominations is June 8. Scrutiny of nominations will be held on June 9, he added.Polling is scheduled for June 18 from 9am to 4pm, with…
Bokaro: The prolonged water scarcity, being faced by over 3,000 households under the Madhuban drinking water supply scheme in Giridih district, is set to end from Saturday as water supply is set to resume after extensive repairing and technical restoration.The families covered under the project fell into hard times since April 23 as water supply was completely shut down after several motors and several key technical components developed faults.Madhuban, located in Pirtaand block of Giridih district, is located at the foothills of Parasnath Hills, the most sacred pilgrimage site in Jainism.As shut down of the project triggered water crisis during…
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh has said India is looking to participate in a sixth‑generation aircraft programme but with a twist.Rather than starting a project from scratch, the IAF is seeking strategic partnerships to fast‑track procurement of these fighters, the air chief said at an event in New Delhi last year.That urgency comes as China already has flying prototypes of two separate sixth‑generation aircraft.US President Donald Trump launched the F‑47 sixth‑generation fighter program last year from the Oval Office, although a prototype of that aircraft has reportedly been flying since 2020, according to the US…
By M BhavaniCoimbatore: The at Semmozhi Park is a picture of neglect. Space crunch is the main issue at the facility that is marred by inappropriate arrangement of artefacts, including sculptures, stone inscriptions and burial urns. Unfinished work is another matter of concern at the museum, forcing the staff to leave ancient sculptures unattended.The museum was earlier located at the Nehru Stadium commercial complex near VOC park. It was moved to Semmozhi Park in March this year, after the footfall shrank to about 20 to 25 per day following the closure of VOC Zoo.While the number of visitors to the…
Agartala: TIPRA Motha MLA Ranjit Debbarma, an ally of the ruling BJP in the Tripura govt, submitted a memorandum to Union home minister Amit Shah raising concerns over illegal migration in the state.Debbarma requested a meeting with Shah during the latter’s scheduled visit to Tripura on June 5. He planned to present supporting documentation and discuss proposals for introducing NRC, ILP, SIR revisions, and enforcing provisions under the CAA.The memorandum stated the urgency of implementing effective measures to detect, detain and deport alleged illegal migrants residing in the state. It highlighted issues related to internal security, demographic shifts, border management…
PUNE: The death toll attributed to consumption of spurious liquor in Pimpri and Pune city rose to 12 since Thursday night as the police and the excise authorities swung into action to arrest eight people, including a repeat offender who is suspected to have prepared the liquor using chemical-mixed spirit. Five of these deaths were reported from late Thursday night to early Friday morning from the Hadapsar area and another four from Pimpri, adding to the six deaths reported on Thursday. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told reporters in Mumbai that eight persons have been arrested in connection with the death…
Onion-laden truck lost control and overturned onto two motorcycles on the Tanda-Banda Highway LUCKNOW: Three young men were killed and another sustained serious injuries after a speeding onion-laden truck lost control and overturned onto two motorcycles on the Tanda-Banda Highway under Munshiganj police station limits in Amethi district late on early Friday. The truck driver fled the scene, abandoning the vehicle after the accident.The tragic incident occurred around 12:30 am near Lokipur village in the Munshiganj area. According to police, the truck, loaded with onions, was travelling from Gauriganj towards Sultanpur when the driver allegedly lost control while attempting to…
New Delhi [India], May 29 : The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre — Ministry of Education, to file a separate affidavit detailing the devising of a mechanism by which the process of conducting and concluding NEET examinations would be institutionalised by the NTA on a year-to-year basis. A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe said that the affidavit must explain how institutional memory and expertise would be developed within the National Testing Agency (NTA) through the deployment of specialised personnel and a broad-based composition of experts. The Court observed that the endeavour must be to ensure…