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Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad’s most dangerous traffic junctions tell a familiar story: speeding vehicles, broken signals, risky road design and weak enforcement combining into deadly daily routines. From Naroda Patiya in the east to SG Highway and the under-construction corridors in the west, commuters navigate intersections where one mistake can turn fatal.At Naroda Patiya junction — identified by the Gujarat Road Safety Authority (GRSA) as the city’s deadliest intersection — chaos begins long before the signal changes. Ecco vans and autorickshaws crowd the junction during peak hours, narrowing visibility and choking traffic flow. Since 2019, the intersection has witnessed 14 deaths, according…

Prayagraj: A youth was arrested by Shivkuti police on Wednesday on the charges of harassing a woman preparing for competitive exams and assaulting her. The accused, however, was bailed out on the same day. The complainant alleged that the son of the owner of the lodge, where she was staying on rent, was harassing her for the past 10 days and made an abortive attempt to assault her on May 18 night. She alleged that the accused even locked her from outside when she didn’t open up, and she had to call up other lodge mates and relatives for help.…

Bhubaneswar: Three persons were arrested by Similipal Tiger Reserve authorities on Thursday for allegedly being in possession of a rare melanistic tiger skin. All three were caught in a coordinated operation carried out jointly by Similipal (south) and Baripada forest divisions.Since it is a melanistic skin, Similipal authorities don’t rule out hunting of such a tiger in their territory, but they are yet to find out which tiger it was and when the hunting took place. The skin will be sent for laboratory examination to Wildlife Institute of India or WII, wildlife officials said.The three persons were identified as Gangadhar…

Krishnagiri: Shoolagiri police commended a 50-year-old woman who handed over Rs 38,000 to the police station after finding a handbag on a bus near Shoolagiri.P Joswin, from Shoolagiri Bazaar Street, found an unattended handbag on a seat while travelling on a bus to Krishnagiri. “When I opened the bag, I found Rs 38,000 in cash and a mobile phone in it,” she said, adding that she later handed it over to the Shoolagiri police .Police inquiry revealed that the bag belong to K Munirathina, 28, from Elaseppally village near Shoolagiri.Police handed over the cash and mobile phone to Munirathna .”When…

MCM commissioner Pradeep Singh confirmed the civic body had received an email from the mayor requesting a vehicle inspection, but acknowledged the drivers’ complaints of intimidation Gurgaon: Doorstep waste collection across Manesar came to a halt on Thursday after the private agency handling the work suspended operations, alleging intimidation, harassment and political interference during an official vehicle verification drive.The controversy erupted when drivers and company staff accused Manesar mayor Inderjeet Kaur Yadav’s husband, Rakesh Yadav — who holds no official position in Municipal Corporation of Manesar (MCM) — of conducting an unauthorised inspection of the agency’s waste collection vehicles. Drivers…

Aizawl: Mizoram Police seized 2.833 kg of heroin worth over Rs 5.05 crore at two locations in northeastern part of the state on Wednesday, officials said on Thursday.According to H Ramthlengliana, IGP and chief public relation officer of the state police, police in Saitual district intercepted a car with Assam registration number while conducting random checking on the outskirts of Keifang town on Wednesday night. The vehicle, driven by a juvenile and proceeding from Manipur to Aizawl, was stopped at Keifang Kualmawi on the basis of suspicion.A detailed search of the car, conducted in the presence of witnesses, led to…

A video of the rescue is nowviral on social media Kanpur: Fire crew turned saviours on Wednesday, averting a ‘cat-astrophe’ when an SOS revealed a kitten stranded between a 25-foot-high concrete pillar and wall. Driven up by stray dogs and marooned under a merciless sun, the kitten’s plight drew locals to alert authorities. With practiced calm, the crew plucked the creature from its exile, earning them a hero’s ovation and a thunderous applause from onlookers.Eyewitnesses said the two-month-old feline got stranded on the pillar between two buildings in Babupurwa after being chased up by a pack of stray dogs. Locals…

As per the last NCRB report, with nine cases, Ludhiana was at number two spot among 34 metropolitan cities of the country. Ludhiana: Amid the growing concerns about environment protection, Ludhiana recorded the second-highest cases under environment protection laws among metropolitan cities of the country in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.Ludhiana: Over the past few years, issues like pollution, deforestation, climate change and natural disasters have prompted many across the country to take up the cause of the environment. Ludhiana too has seen an outpouring of concern for the environment. According to the latest…

Between May 7 and 21, only 52,000 households across Ghaziabad and Noida, out of an estimated 20 lakh, submitted the online self-enumeration forms Noida/Ghaziabad: The voluntary self-enumeration phase of the housing Census concluded on Thursday. From Friday, around 15,000 enumerators will begin physical house listing and housing Census operations across Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar districts as part of the first phase of Census-2027.Between May 7 and 21, only 52,000 households — out of estimated 20 lakh households — submitted the online self-enumeration forms across Ghaziabad and Noida ahead of the door-to-door house-listing exercise beginning now.Officials said around 35,000 households…

Pune: A woman (56) from Sukhsagarnagar lost her gold jewellery worth Rs 1.8 lakh to two women and a boy recently in Bibvewadi after the child sought her help to reach his home in Rajasthan and the two women diverted her attention.She lodged a complaint with the Bharati Vidyapeeth police. The case was transferred to the Bibvewadi police on Wednesday.An officer from the Bibvewadi police said around 6.15pm on May 17, when she was standing near Dolphin Chowk, a boy approached her and requested to help him in reaching his home in Rajasthan. The officer said while she was speaking…