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Lucknow: Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Friday appointed senior party functionary Aeshwarya Raj Singh as its new Uttar Pradesh president, hours after incumbent Ramashish Rai resigned from the post and announced his exit from the party.The late-evening appointment underlines the party leadership’s attempt to quickly contain any organisational uncertainty and project stability at a time when political activity in Uttar Pradesh is gathering pace ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.Singh, 43, currently serves as the party’s national secretary and has been one of the key architects of the ‘Team RLD’ initiative, a political outreach platform launched by partypresident and Union…
Amravati: Dharni and Chikhaldara talukas in Amravati district have featured among the top 40 nationally in NITI Aayog’s Delta Ranking for January-March 2026 under Aspirational Taluka Programme.Among 27 aspirational talukas in Maharashtra, Dharni secured the first rank and Chikhaldara the second. In Zone 4, comprising Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, Dharni ranked third and Chikhaldara fourth among 69 talukas. At the national level, Dharni stood 33rd and Chikhaldara 37th among 513 aspirational talukas.The rankings reflect the two talukas’ performance across health and nutrition, education, agriculture and farmer welfare, social development, and infrastructure.District administration attributed the achievement to coordinated efforts by Zilla…
Ganderbal, Aug 7: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ganderbal, Jatin Kishore on Friday chaired a meeting to review the preparations for the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ Campaign, scheduled to be observed from 09 to 17 August 2026.He directed all stakeholder departments to ensure its successful implementation through coordinated efforts and maximum public participation across the district.At the outset, the Deputy Commissioner reviewed the action plan prepared by the concerned departments for the smooth conduct of the campaign. Stressing the importance of the national initiative, he emphasized that all departments should work in close coordination to make the campaign a vibrant celebration of patriotism,…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) FIFA president Gianni Infantino has strongly denied allegations that UEFA funds were used to finance a severance package for a former employee with whom he allegedly had a relationship during his time as UEFA general secretary.The allegations, published in an investigation by The Daily Telegraph, claim the woman received a rapid promotion, a significant salary increase and, after leaving UEFA, a six-figure exit package that allegedly included funding for a business school MBA.Infantino, through a FIFA spokesperson, dismissed the claims as false and defamatory.”FIFA president Gianni Infantino strongly denies these allegations, and…
BMC’s Universal Footpath Policy 2023 modified Mumbai: To push forward with its ‘Pedestrian First’ campaign launched earlier this week to remove all encroachments from footpaths, BMC has dropped certain provisions of Universal Footpath Policy 2023 that allowed some structures to be set up and vehicles to be parked on pavements on a temporary basis “in isolated and rare cases”.The modifications are part of a set of guidelines issued for implementation of the campaign. The guidelines retain the provision that all forms of footpath encroachments must be removed following the due process of law, but they remove detailed clauses governing permissions…
Miniature elephants, horses and cows made of brass and metal, once used as children’s playthings, highlights the creativity and simplicity of rural life A lota, a colourful trunk, an old metal lock and a rolling pin — objects that were once a part of everyday life have now found a new home in the relocated Sanskriti Museum of Indian Textiles & Everyday Art at the Humayun’s Tomb World Heritage Site Museum. It reopened on August 1 for visitors, inviting them to look at a selection of two thousand artifacts and at least 500 beautifully patterned textiles of Patola, Bandhini and…
Food safety officials inspected Bengaluru storage centers supplying hotels and caterers. BENGALURU: A day after the Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) uncovered large quantities of expired meat, milk and vegetables in the kitchens of several star hotels in Bengaluru, officials on Saturday turned their attention to food storage and distribution centres supplying hotels and caterers.Thirty special teams of the FDA inspected food storage facilities across Bengaluru Urban district, including those under the jurisdiction of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), on Saturday. The inspections were conducted under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and Rules, 2011.During inspections of…
Water releases based on inflows, not politics: Jupally Hyderabad: Excise minister Jupally Krishna Rao on Friday rejected the BRS’s allegations that the Congress govt was neglecting irrigation needs in chief minister A Revanth Reddy’s native Palamuru region, asserting that water releases to irrigation projects were being regulated solely on the basis of reservoir inflows and technical assessments by irrigation authorities.Addressing a press conference at the secretariat, Jupally said deficient rainfall and its impact on water availability had necessitated careful and scientific reservoir management.He said water from the Priyadarshini Jurala Project was being released to the Nettempadu, Bhima and Koilsagar projects…
Chennai: PMK floor leader Sowmiya Anbumani on Friday strongly opposed the TVK govt’s attempt to hold talks with Karnataka over the Cauvery dispute, demanding an all-party meeting instead. She urged the state govt to take up the fight legally and lead an all-party delegation to Delhi to voice Tamil Nadu’s concerns.“There are only two options — either to build the Mekedatu dam or not. We do not want the dam. So why even attempt a dialogue? It is completely unwarranted,” the Dharmapuri legislator said during a special call attention motion on the Mekedatu row and Cauvery water dispute.Pointing out the…
Exam with school student having a educational test, thinking hard, writing answer in classroom for university education admission and world literacy day concept Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Friday permitted the state govt to go ahead with the recruitment process for nearly 11,000 posts of primary teachers, but ordered it to keep 774 posts vacant for candidates who have challenged the answer key.A total of 774 candidates have disputed answers to some 18-20 questions asked in the exam that was held on Dec 21, 2025 for the recruitment of vidya sahayaks through Teacher Eligibility Test (TET-1).As the petitions were pending,…