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Bandipora, Mat 21: Heavy rainfall triggered severe waterlogging and caused extensive damage to the Srinagar-Bandipora road near Darul Uloom Rahimiya in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday, disrupting vehicular movement in the area. The situation further worsened as rainwater and mud entered several residential houses in the vicinity, damaging household belongings and causing significant distress to local residents. Authorities said restoration and relief measures are being assessed, while further details on the extent of damage are awaited. The area showed inundated stretches of road and waterlogged houses as continuous rainfall affected normal life in the region.Meanwhile, traffic movement remained…
NEW DELHI: Two weeks after swearing in, Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay on Thursday expanded his cabinet, inducting 23 MLAs into the council of ministers.Among those inducted are Salem South MLA Tamil Parthiban, Aranthangi MLA J Mohammed Farvas alias Parvez, Coimbatore North MLA V Sampath Kumar, Kancheepuram MLA R V Ranjith Kumar, Tambaram MLA D Sarath Kumar, Tirupur North MLA V Sathyabama and R K Nagar MLA Marie Wilson.With this, Congress also to the Tamil Nadu cabinet after nearly 60 years, as two Congress MLAs — Rajesh Kumar and P Vishwanathan — were approved by party president Mallikarjun Kharge.This comes…
NEW DELHI: A 38-year-old woman and her teenage son were allegedly stabbed to death during a robbery in southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri in the early hours of Thursday.The deceased were identified as Sharda Sahu, a homemaker, and her 13-year-old son, a Class 7 student.According to police, a PCR call regarding the double murder was received at Govindpuri police station around 1.11 am from Gali No. 10 in Govindpuri, Kalkaji. Local police teams, along with senior officers, rushed to the spot and secured the crime scene.During preliminary inquiry, police found that complainant Vishnu Sahu, who works as a fruit and vegetable vendor…
In view of the severe heatwave warning issued by the meteorological department, chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday urged people to remain vigilant and take necessary precautions against the intense heat conditions prevailing across the state. Hyderabad: In view of the severe heatwave warning issued by the meteorological department, chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday urged people to remain vigilant and take necessary precautions against the intense heat conditions prevailing across the state.The CM said severe heatwave conditions are likely to intensify in the north Telangana districts and directed officials concerned to take all precautionary measures to safeguard…
Ahmedabad: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to translocate three cheetahs brought from Botswana to Kuno National Park to the Banni grasslands in Kutch. A second batch of four cheetahs from Kenya is expected to arrive later this year. Principal chief conservator of forests, Jaipal Singh, confirmed the development, stating that the three cheetahs, two females and one male, have already been quarantined at Kuno and will be brought to Kutch. “These three cheetahs are most likely to arrive before monsoon, or soon after the season,” he said.According to a senior officer, the NTCA and officials associated with…
Bhubaneswar: The pass percentage in the Annual Higher Secondary Examination (AHSE) this year has gone up by 3% compared to the previous year. Conducted by Council of Higher Secondary Examination (CHSE), the AHSE-2026 saw an overall pass percentage of 85.85% against last year’s 82.77%. Also, girls outperformed boys in all four streams — arts, science, commerce and vocational education. The results of all four streams were announced by school and mass education minister Nityananda Gond here on Wednesday. Stating that students in all streams performed better than last year, Gond said that no result was withheld this time. Close to…
The last stray dog census in PMC limits was held in 2023, said officials Pune: The PMC plans to conduct a stray dog census and survey spots with a high population of community canines. Civic officials said they plant to speed up the activity in the aftermath of Supreme Court directives issued on Tuesday this week.Sarika Funde, head of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) veterinary department, said, “We are following apex court directives. The survey of stray dogs is being carried out near locations such as schools, hospitals and food joints, where they are seen in large numbers, only to…
Panaji: The Chemists and Druggists Association of Goa joined the nationwide shutdown of all pharmacies and addressed a letter to PM Modi through the North Goa collector to highlight the illegal and unregulated online sale of medicines, sale and home delivery of medicines without valid and verified prescriptions, and predatory discounting practices by online medicine platforms, adversely affecting the licensed chemists.The association on Wednesday said that the nationwide one-day token strike called by the All India Organisation of Chemists & Druggists (AIOCD) in protest against the continued illegal and uncontrolled online sale of medicines and related serious issues affecting public…
Chandigarh: Facing scrutiny from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over the condition of the endangered Indus river dolphin, Punjab govt has defended what it described as substantial conservation measures, statutory compliance and continuous monitoring mechanisms undertaken for protection of the species and its habitat.The National Green Tribunal is monitoring the conservation of the endangered Indus river dolphin, which survives in Punjab in an around 185-km stretch of the Beas. In an affidavit filed before the tribunal, Punjab chief wildlife warden Basanta Rajkumar said the state adopted a “proactive, science-based and precautionary approach” towards protection of riverine and aquatic ecosystems. It…
Lucknow: Nearly 40 lakh households have opted for the self-enumeration process of Census 2027 in UP, the digital feature introduced for the first time in India’s Census exercise. Sharing details of the ongoing process, Sheetal Verma, director of Census operations and director of citizen registration in UP, said the response has been particularly strong in several districts despite apprehensions in urban areas.Verma said UP had around five crore households during the last Census and the state administration is aiming to ensure complete geographical and population coverage in the upcoming enumeration.“This is not just a headcount. Census is one of the…