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Bhubaneswar: BJD on Wednesday constituted a state-level monitoring team to oversee preparations linked to the Election Commission of India’s decision to begin the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Odisha from May 30. According to an office order issued by the party president Naveen Patnaik, the team will monitor and supervise the appointment of booth level agents in all assembly constituencies, along with their training, capacity building and other related work.The six-member panel comprises senior BJD leaders Pramila Mallik, Niranjan Pujari, Pratap Jena, Sasmit Patra, Bhrugu Baxipatra and Bijay Nayak. The order said the newly-formed team will immediately begin…

CHENNAI: VCK and IUML have decided to join C Joseph Vijay’s cabinet in the next few days after TVK publicly invited them to on Thursday. Both are expected to get one berth each.VCK sources said party president Thol Thirumavalavan may not be part of the cabinet, though TVK was keen on accommodating him. VCK deputy general secretary Vanni Arasu, who won from Tindivanam, is expected to be inducted instead.There is also speculation that Thirumavalavan may contest from Trichy East, which Vijay gave up. VCK sources said TVK was urging Thirumavalavan to contest the byelection, though he has been hesitant about…

IMD has issued a heatwave to severe heatwave warning for Haryana till May 26 Gurgaon: Nights continue to remain unusually warm in the city, with the KVK automatic weather station recording a minimum temperature of 29.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, the highest recorded so far this season.The official India Meteorological Department (IMD) station recorded a minimum temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, which was 3.7 degrees above normal. Day temperatures also remained high, with the city recording a maximum temperature of 44 degrees Celsius, 3.4 degrees above normal.The unusually high nighttime temperatures have added to discomfort across the city, with residents…

Dibrugarh: Ajoy Kumar Gogoi, a Congress candidate who recently contested and lost the Demow assembly seat in Sivasagar district, was arrested by Charaideo police on Wednesday after being named in the suicide note of local businessman Abani Baruah, who died on May 16.Baruah, a resident of Charaideo and owner of a petrol depot, allegedly took his own life after writing a note addressed to his wife, Jaya Baruah, in which he named Gogoi and another individual, Binanda Bora, as being directly responsible for driving him to suicide. According to police, Baruah had borrowed Rs 20 lakh from Gogoi some months…

Times News NetworkKanpur: Additional district and sessions judge, Kanpur Nagar, Nisha Srivastava on Wednesday dismissed the bail application of accused Nagendra Mani Tripathi, allegedly a member of a gang involved in making forged marksheets and certificates.The Kidwai Nagar police had uncovered a gang involved in the creation and sale of fake mark sheets and certificates, arresting Nagendra Mani Tripathi and other accused on February 19, 2026.Additional district government counsel Vinod Tripathi opposing the anticipatory bail application argued that at the time of his arrest forged degrees, mark sheets and other illicit materials were recovered from accused Nagendra Mani Tripathi.These individuals…

Ludhiana: Terming it a political conspiracy, AAP Jagraon MLA Sarvjit Kaur Manuke on Wednesday denied that her husband attempted to contest the Municipal Corporation elections from a ward strictly reserved for female candidates. The legislator revealed that an unauthorised nomination file was sneakily submitted under her husband’s name, prompting her to demand immediate legal action against the culprits.Addressing the media in Jagraon, Manuke explained that while she personally filed the official nomination papers for all genuine party candidates across the wards, a miscreant independently submitted a fraudulent file for her husband at the returning officer’s office. She categorically stated that…

With temperatures touching 44 degrees Celsius, city has seen a major spike in power demand Noida: With temperatures touching 44 degrees Celsius, Noida and Greater Noida have witnessed a major spike in power demand. In the past week, Noida’s consumption rose by 561 MW to settle at 2,609 MW, and Greater Noida’s increased by 115 MW to reach 852 MW.A superintending engineer (SE-Technical) of Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, Vivek Kumar Patel, said the power demand has been climbing steadily since May 12 after the mercury breached the 40 degrees Celsius mark. “The peak demand is expected to cross 3,000…

A customised body of a bus on a heavy-duty chassis inside an automotive workshop, highlighting commercial vehicle manufacturing and coachbuilding in the transport industry Pune: Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) has set up a portal and support cell for certification of bus body frame and interior makers who build interior and exterior of these vehicles over chassis.The research institute has also dropped the cost of comprehensive testing approval to Rs 14 lakh, 50% lower than the cost of the manufacturer from the unorganised sector. Additionally, time for ‘type approval’ can be fast-tracked to anywhere between 60 to 90 days,…

Panaji: Dug decades ago on a hillside in Rivona, septuagenarian farmer Pandurang Patil’s stepwell is hand-carved with tunnel systems known as surangam, built using an ancient engineering technique once practised in parts of South India.“In plains, underground aquifers spread water evenly in broad underground water tables. One person digs a well at 8m, and nearby wells will also find water around the same depth. In hills, however, water comes only as narrow streams of seepage moving through rock fissures,” he told TOI.This makes conventional square wells inefficient in hilly terrain, as only one side may actually bring water while the…

Barinderjit.salujaMohali: The Mohali police are probing a possible gangster angle in the firing incident targeting Advocate Gagandeep Jammu, former honorary secretary of the Punjab and Haryana high court bar association, who narrowly escaped an alleged assassination attempt near Kurali on May 19.According to police sources, unidentified assailants had allegedly opened fire at Jammu’s vehicle while he was travelling. He escaped unhurt in the attack. Police teams are investigating the motive behind the incident, with focus on earlier extortion threats allegedly received by the advocate.Advocate Gagandeep Jammu is the son of senior journalist and former Press Council of India member Balwinder…