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Chandigarh: The Haryana Congress on Tuesday said it is fully alert to protect voters’ rights during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and has prepared a detailed strategy to monitor the process across the state. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Action and Monitoring Committee formed by the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) to review the voter list revision drive. Senior party leaders stressed that every eligible voter’s name must be included correctly in the electoral rolls, and no voter should be removed without proper verification.The meeting was attended by Haryana Congress chief Rao…

Lucknow: Celebrating the World Menstrual Hygiene Day, UP govt has decided to expand the Swachh Garima Vidyalaya initiative across 7,004 govt and aided schools in all 75 districts of the state.Launched in Aug 2022 as a pilot in one government girls’ inter college per district, the initiative — implemented in collaboration with Unicef — aimed to create model schools equipped with functional girls’ toilets, sanitary pad vending machines, disposal units, and trained nodal teachers to sensitively address menstrual hygiene and health.In almost four years, the model demonstrated visible change, thereby compelling govt to scale it to all schools. In April…

Jai Narain PandeyPatna: The renovation work of Moinul Haq Stadium will be completed in three years while the sports stadiums and centres across Bihar will be named after medal-winning athletes.The decisions were taken at separate review meetings of the sports department on Wednesday. Minister Shreyasi Singh said district sports centres, stadiums, grounds, and other sports complexes must be useful and functional for athletes.Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) delivered a detailed presentation regarding the modernisation and construction work of the Moinul Haq stadium. BCA officials informed sports secretary Vinod Singh Gunjiyal that a timeframe of approximately three years has been set for…

File photo of Former minister Mahesh Joshi at ACB Court Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court Wednesday sought responses from the state home department and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general over the arrest of former PHED minister Mahesh Joshi in the alleged Jal Jeevan Mission scam case. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice B S Sandhu issued notices during the preliminary hearing of a habeas corpus petition filed by Joshi’s son, Rohit Joshi. The petition alleged that although the ACB arrested Mahesh Joshi on May 7, it failed to provide written grounds of arrest…

Nagpur: Unidentified bodies are piling up at hospital mortuaries as Nagpur continues to reel under intense heatwave conditions and of the 14 bodies recovered in last three days, 11 were found on Wednesday alone when the temperature hovered above 45 degrees Celsius for the seventh consecutive day. While five bodies were found at Nagpur railway station and inside unreserved and sleeper coaches of trains, another five were found lying in Lakadganj, Kalamna, Sakkardara and Tajbagh in the last 24 hours. A 75-year-old male patient died at Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s cold ward, where patients suffering from hyperpyrexia are treated, taking the…

Rajkot: An audit of taluka health office accounts has led to a criminal case being filed for misappropriation of Rs 16.59 lakh, with police booking an outsourced junior clerk after an inquiry found fake vouchers were used to divert govt funds in 2020-21 and 2021-22.An FIR was registered against Paresh Chauhan and others who may be incriminated at Pradyumna Nagar police station by Dr Jayesh Popat, 52, the taluka health officer and in-charge administrative-cum-accounting officer at the Rajkot Taluka Health Office.According to the complaint, an audit of local funds for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 financial years revealed that a substantial…

Ranchi: Two minor siblings, who had left their Jagannathpur-based residence on Monday, were rescued by the police from Tupudana on Wednesday, police said.The children, identified as Yuvansh Mahto (6) and Roshni Kumari (10), had left home in Patel Nagar Sector-1 under Jagannathpur police station limits on Monday after being scolded by their mother for playing in the sun.Acting on a complaint lodged by their father, Chiranjeev Kumar Mahto, Jagannathpur police registered a case under Sec 137(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on Tuesday and launched an investigation.“Using CCTV footage, technical inputs, and intelligence gathering, personnel from several police stations…

Vadodara: The Baroda Chapter of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI) has bagged two national honours at the National Chapters’ Meet 2026 held in Siliguri, West Bengal.The chapter received the “Best Chapter Award – ICMAI 2026” for its overall contribution to professional excellence and institutional development. It also won the award for conducting the highest number of Career Awareness Programmes in 2025-26 under Category B at the national level.The meet was organised by ICMAI, a statutory body under the Union ministry of corporate affairs. Senior office-bearers of the institute presented the awards and certificates to representatives of the…

Gorakhpur: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday expressed sorrow over death of three teenaged boys who drowned in the Rapti river while bathing near Rajghat area of Gorakhpur on Tuesday evening. He directed officials to provide all admissible govt assistance to the bereaved families at the earliest and personally coordinate with them.Describing the incident as “heartbreaking and tragic”, the chief minister prayed for peace to the departed souls and strength to the grieving families. The victims, identified as Irfan, 16, Hans aka Nikku,13 and Shakti Gautam,13 lived in the same lane of Hansupur locality and were close friends.According to residents,…

Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: Bengal Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested Trinamool Congress Bishnupur MLA Dilip Mondal from Puri in Odisha in connection with cases registered against him for allegedly threatening BJP workers at a rally earlier this month.Mondal was the minister of state for transport in the Trinamool govt for around three odd years.The Bishnupur MLA was on the run for the past 13 days after the police raided his Pailan penthouse and he escaped by scaling its walls. The cops had arrested his son Arghya and five others from Bakhhali along with cartridges on May 18.Multiple FIRs were lodged against…