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Noida: The district will conduct a special measles-rubella (MR) vaccination campaign from Aug 18 to 28 to cover children aged five to 10 years who missed their scheduled doses, officials said.The campaign will target students of classes 1 to 5 in govt and private schools, Anganwadi centres, madrasas and other educational institutions across the district.The decision was taken at a district task force meeting chaired by chief development officer Bhalchandra Tripathi. Health officials said disruptions to routine immunisation during the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in some children missing their scheduled vaccines.Vaccination sessions will be held on Aug 18, 20, 21, 24,…

Pune: Commuters are preferring shared cabs along cities other than Pune-Mumbai route over past few years. Some of the new cities that have emerged such as Nashik, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Kolhapur.Earlier, regular commuters used shared cabs for travelling from Pune to Mumbai but now techies and even traders prefer shared cabs to smaller cities on account of influx of people to Pune.The average number of people travelling through shared cabs on Pune-Nashik route over past 12 months is at to 1 lakh. Similarly, average travellers on Pune-Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar route is at 87,000 per month, as per data from BlaBlaCar India.…

Panaji: After the death of a 17-year-old student at a waterfall in Sattari, activists and hinterland tour operators have called on the state govt to draw up a comprehensive, time-bound action plan to curb drowning deaths, and to tighten licensing and enforcement for unregistered trek and picnic operators.The Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) said it had warned North Goa collector Ankit Yadav on July 24 about the rise in drowning deaths. GOACAN coordinator Roland Martins said the collector’s office should convene a meeting of all concerned agencies to finalise an action plan for 2026-27.Separately, Mackinlay Barreto, founder of…

Gurdaspur MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa Chandigarh: Former deputy chief minister of Punjab and Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa slammed Aam Aadmi Party govt over the appointment of candidates from Haryana as multi-purpose health workers by the health department.Randhawa said the issue has further intensified the growing anxiety among Punjab’s youth over employment opportunities in govt departments. He asserted that the Punjab govt must ensure that the rights and interests of the state’s youth are protected and that recruitment processes remain completely transparent, fair and impartial.“Punjab’s youth work hard for years to prepare for competitive examinations and govt jobs. If candidates…

Lucknow: A Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed that a deceased ‘work-charge’ employee of the Rural Engineering Department, who served the government for over 18 years, be treated as regularised from the date he became eligible, holding that his death could not extinguish his accrued right to consideration for regularisation.Justice Indrajeet Shukla also directed authorities to consider the appointment claim of the employee’s son on compassionate basis under the Uttar Pradesh Recruitment of Dependants of Government Servants Dying in Harness Rules, 1974, within two months.The order came on a petition filed by Hasan Ahmad, whose father, Rifakat…

Buxar: Judicial employees from across Bihar will meet in Patna on Sunday to deliberate on their long-pending demands and chalk out their future course of action.The general body meeting is being organised by the Bihar State Civil Court Employees’ Association. Its major demands include full implementation of the Shetty Commission recommendations, pay revision with effect from Jan 1, 2006, removal of pay anomalies, equal pay for equal work, time-bound promotions, promotions against vacant posts, cadre restructuring, creation of promotional posts and appointments on compassionate grounds.The association has also raised concerns over inadequate basic infrastructure in courts, citing shortages of computers,…

School bus, caption-Eighteen schoolchildren were injured after a speeding Scorpio SUV collided head-on with a school bus in Jobner town of Jaipur district on Saturday morning Jaipur: Eighteen schoolchildren were injured in a head-on collision between a speeding Scorpio SUV and a school bus in Jobner town of Jaipur district Saturday morning. The accident occurred around 9:30 am near a cement factory on Jobner-Asalpur Mahla road.School bus, caption-Eighteen schoolchildren were injured after a speeding Scorpio SUV collided head-on with a school bus in Jobner town of Jaipur district on Saturday morningSP Jaipur (Rural) Hanuman Prasad Meena said the private school…

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Palanpur: The Special Pocso court in Aravalli sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and brutally murdering a five-year-old girl in a village in Dhansura taluka in 2023.According to the prosecution, the girl, who lived in the village, had gone to the house of the accused, a neighbour, to play. The accused raped the child and subsequently murdered her.Dhansura police registered a case and launched an investigation into the incident.The trial was conducted before the Aravalli district special Pocso court.Public prosecutor D S Patel said, “Based on the evidence and arguments, judge K K Shukla convicted Jayanti Parmar of…

Ranchi: The Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority (Jhalsa) has launched an initiative to promote litigation-free villages through a community mediation programme in rural areas, beginning with a pilot project across five districts. Under the plan, five villages each in Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Dumka, and Jamtara have been selected, with the programme to be expanded after its success, officials said on Saturday.The scheme, being implemented on the direction of the National Legal Services Authority, aims to settle minor and compoundable disputes at the village level before they reach courts. A panel of three mediators would be constituted in each selected village…