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Accused Rakesh Nayak (left) and his aide Debabrata Baral (right) in police custody Bhubaneswar: Shree Lingaraj police arrested a man for allegedly snatching a woman’s mobile phone to gift it to his fiancée, officials said on Friday. The accused, Rakesh Nayak (29), and his associate, Debabrata Baral (34), were taken into custody on Thursday night.The arrests followed a complaint lodged by a 25‑year‑old woman, who reported that three unidentified men snatched her phone near Radhaballav Mutt in Nageswartangi on Aug 4. Police examined CCTV footage from the area and identified Nayak, who is unemployed. He was picked up near Mausima…

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore postal division plans to close the Ukkadam sub-post office and merge it with the Bazaar sub-post office. Residents in and around the Ukkadam have raised concerns and demanded that the postal department drop its plan to close the sub-post office.The Ukkadam area is surrounded by the Moulana Mohamed Ali Old Scrap Market, wholesale and retail fish markets, fruits market and more than 50,000 residents.A senior postal official said the department has a set of distance norms based on which the Ukkadam sub-post office is being merged with the Bazaar sub-post office. “Two sub-offices cannot co-exist at a…

Tiranga Yatra organised by BJP in Puttur on Friday. Mangaluru:Calling upon people to fight corruption in Karnataka, BJP MLC CT Ravi said the Narendra Modi-led central govt has not faced a single allegation of corruption in the last 12 years.Addressing a Tiranga Yatra gathering in Puttur Friday, Ravi ridiculed chief minister DK Shivakumar’s statement asking citizens not to pay even Rs 10 as a bribe in any govt office.“Recently, our chief minister said that no one should give a ten-rupee bribe. Two senior leaders spoke over the phone about how a minister’s post was obtained. No one cares about ten…

Agniveer Akshay Laxman Gawate Pune: Nearly three years after Agniveer Akshay Laxman Gawate died in the line of duty on the Siachen Glacier in Oct 2023, his parents are awaiting Rs 1 crore relief from the state govt.Gawate became the first Agniveer of the Indian Army to die in the line of duty. He was posted at the world’s highest battlefield. The Army declared him a battle casualty. His family has since received over Rs 1 crore from Army headquarters under various heads.However, Maharashtra govt is yet to release a separate corpus of Rs1 crore. The officials, however, stated that…

PM with KVM’ delegation including women weavers, natural farmers under Nav-Trinjan initiative. BATHINDA: On the occasion of National Handloom Day, a 20-member delegation from Punjab-based natural farming initiative Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Parliament House on Friday and presented him with the Indian National Flag made from hand-spun and handwoven khadi produced using indigenous, non-Bt cotton grown through natural farming methods.The delegation comprised 10 weavers and 10 natural farmers, farmer-trainers, and key team members associated with the initiative. A majority of the weavers were rural women from Nav-Trinjan who have been directly involved in transforming…

In action: Zeeshan Ansari Lucknow: UP leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari is hoping to make a strong impression in the Duleep Trophy after earning a place in the Central Zone squad, despite an ordinary outing for India A against Sri Lanka A in the unofficial Test at Galle.Ansari made a surprise return to red-ball cricket in June 2026 when he was selected for the India A tour of Sri Lanka, despite not having played a Ranji Trophy match since January 2020. However, the Lucknow cricketer admitted that he fell short of his own expectations on his comeback.Besides Ansari, two other Uttar Pradesh…

Patna: Minority welfare minister Mohammad Zama Khan on Friday announced that four new minority residential schools will begin academic operations on Aug 17. The new campuses, located in Jamui, Nalanda, Kaimur, and Muzaffarpur, will take the total number of operational minority residential schools in the state to six.Speaking to reporters, Khan stated that the state govt aims to establish at least one such school across every district under the Bihar State Minority Residential School Scheme, launched in 2018-19. Approvals have already been granted for 24 districts so far. These institutions cater to meritorious students from Class 9 to Class 12,…

Coaching Hub in Pratap Nagar Jaipur: Days before Supreme Court questioned Rajasthan Housing Board’s move to divert the Pratap Nagar Coaching Hub from its intended academic purpose, Rajasthan govt initiated a proposal to allot one of the complex’s buildings to Jaipur Police for a control room and allied facilities.The proposal was cleared at a meeting of Urban Development and Housing (UDH) department despite having no apparent connection with education, the purpose for which the coaching hub was originally developed. The move has raised fresh questions over govt’s plans to repurpose public educational infrastructure for administrative functions.A senior UDH department official…

Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has launched an ambitious redevelopment of its iconic Smruti Mandir complex at Reshimbagh, with a new state-of-the-art Maharshi Vyas auditorium emerging as the centrepiece of a nearly ₹300-crore project aimed at modernising its historic premises.Sources said the existing auditorium has been demolished to make way for a larger, technologically upgraded facility that RSS plans to complete before its triennial Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), scheduled to be held in Nagpur in March 2027.The new auditorium will have a higher seating capacity to accommodate delegates from across the country and will be equipped with modern audio-visual…

The procedure was conducted free of cost under the Ayushman Bharat scheme Ranchi: Doctors at the cardiothoracic and vascular surgery (CTVS) department of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) performed a high-risk open-heart surgery on a 55-year-old Hazaribag resident, saving his life, hospital authorities said on Thursday. The procedure was conducted free of cost under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.The patient had been suffering from high fever, breathlessness, palpitations and severe swelling in his legs for several months. Medical examinations revealed severe aortic regurgitation, a condition in which the aortic valve fails to close properly, leading to heart failure. His liver…