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Civil defence team rescued a man Jaipur: The district civil defence team rescued a man after he fell into a 120-foot-deep well in Raghunathpura under Kanota police station limits Saturday.Officials said the Collectorate control room received information around 3.35 pm that the man was alive inside the well and required immediate rescue.“Upon receiving the information, a Civil Defence rescue team immediately left for the site and began the operation. After about half an hour of strenuous efforts, the team successfully brought him out alive and safe,” deputy controller Amit Sharma said.The man was given urgent assistance after being pulled out…

Doma Ashramshala in Chikhaldara Amravati: Doma Govt Residential Ashramshala in Chikhaldara taluka, deep in Melghat, wore a deserted look on Friday. All 608 students — 263 boys and 345 girls — have been taken home by parents after a wave of panic triggered by what doctors suspect is ‘mass hysteria’.The crisis began a few days ago when one girl student simultaneously started crying uncontrollably, laughing loudly, screaming, and then slipping into silence without responding to anyone. Within 48 hours, similar symptoms appeared in other girls. Word about the incident spread fast.Local rumors of “bhoot-badha” or ghostly possession added fuel. Frightened…

District election officer and DC Sandip Kumar oversees electoral works on Saturday Daltonganj: As many as 750 eligible electors in three villages of Latehar district refused to sign enumeration forms during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, despite repeated persuasion by officials.The refusals were reported from one polling booth each in Kaima, Ronhe and Dadeya villages under Latehar, Bariyatu and Chandwa blocks, respectively.Deputy election officer Mary Markey said 574 of Kaima’s 1,252 electors refused to sign the forms. In Ronhe, 114 of 712 electors declined, while 62 of Dadeya’s 851 voters did the same.“Following the directive of district…

Varanasi: Although the Ganga was still flowing nearly seven metres below the danger mark, its water level continued to rise on Saturday, submerging upper platforms and lower steps and disrupting interconnectivity between several ghats.The rise in water level, caused by incessant rainfall in upstream districts, also made it necessary for organisers to shift the Ganga Aarti dais to higher platforms on a daily basis. The water level was recorded at 63.4 metres on Saturday morning and was rising at around 2cm per hour, compared with 62.91 metres on Friday.After crossing 63.3 metres early Saturday, the rising water began cutting off…

Most break-ins occur when homes are empty Thiruvananthapuram: Burglary remains a persistent threat in the capital, with close to 300 house-break cases being registered annually despite intensified police patrols and surveillance.According to police data, 296 burglary cases were registered in Thiruvananthapuram in 2025. The number rose from 289 in 2022 to a four-year high of 342 in 2023, before declining to 291 in 2024 and marginally increasing last year.Though the figure remains below the 2023 peak, police officials said the persistence of nearly 300 burglary cases annually remains a concern. In 2025, the city also recorded 518 theft cases and…

Midday meals at state schools Kolkata: Eggs were served on Saturday with midday meals at 500 state-run schools, where Iskcon-supported Annamrita Foundation provides vegetarian food. The move followed chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s announcement last Saturday that eggs would be supplied separately by self-help groups to children under the new midday meal arrangement.Students welcomed the return of eggs to their plates. The headmistress of a south Kolkata school said many children had been asking when eggs would be served again. “After a meeting, we had received an indication that eggs would be added to the menu but we did not expect…

Srinagar, Aug 07: Women account for 74.73 per cent of the workforce engaged in agriculture in Jammu and Kashmir, compared with the national figure of 59.81 per cent, while holdings operated by women account for 7.6 per cent of total operational holdings in the Union Territory, according to data tabled by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in the Rajya Sabha.The figures come from two different datasets. The workforce figure is based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2025, while the figure for operational holdings operated by women comes from the Agriculture Census 2015-16. The national share of…

The scorecard concludes that, on average, countries are “moving away” from the public education expenditure benchmarks of at least 4% of GDP or 15% of total public expenditure. NEW DELHI: India remains just above Unesco’s minimum GDP benchmark for education, but the sector’s share in government spending has slipped below the prescribed threshold. Education accounts for 4.1% of GDP but 14.2% of total public expenditure, down from 15.7% in 2015 and below the 15% benchmark, Unesco’s 2026 SDG 4 scorecard has shown.The funding picture assumes significance because India continues to lag on secondary school completion. Its latest lower secondary (Classes…

Uddhav Thackeray also took a dig at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s interaction with Gen Z Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for meeting defected Sena (UBT) MPs over breakfast in New Delhi recently.“Modi doesn’t have time to meet Gen Z. Modi doesn’t have time to come to Parliament, but he has time to meet traitors [Sena UBT MPs],” Uddhav said.He also took a dig at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s interaction with Gen Z. Uddhav said if the RSS is running the govt and the RSS’s govt is listening, then before Bhagwat engages in…

New Delhi: A cab driver was allegedly murdered by a group of passengers en route to Jaipur, Rajasthan. The deceased, Ashish Pal, 22, a native of Auraiya, UP, and resident of Noida, had gone missing on July 20. His body was recovered two days later from Jaipur Rural.Police traced the case to Delhi based on the last location of the cab. A case was registered before police nabbed the accused—four adults and a juvenile.They had come to Delhi on July 18 for a visit. On July 20, they booked Ashish’s cab near a hospital in Jasola for Jaipur for Rs…