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Sanitation workers are expected to get raincoats among other facilities Pune: The standing committee on Thursday approved a Rs 8-crore proposal to provide facilities to conservancy staff handling domestic waste. The funds will be utilised to provide 42 facilities, including raincoats to sweepers and waste collectors. The committee’s chairman Shrinath Bhimale said the funds will be distributed to 15 ward offices, and the material will be purchased at market rate.Bhimale said that the committee discussed illegal construction on the hills across the city and instances of tekdis being gouged out. A detailed report has been sought from the civic administration…

Panaji: The Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) has welcomed Centre’s decision to extend the Fast Track Immigration – Trusted Traveller Programme (FTI-TTP) to Goa’s two airports.“This biometric e-gate system will help cut immigration clearances, provide better passenger convenience and a boost to tourism in Goa. We eagerly await more details on its rollout and implementation, along with the next phase of implementation for foreign nationals, which will benefit all stakeholders for the coming season,” said TTAG spokesperson Aakash Madgavkar.TTAG has appreciated the efforts of tourism minister Rohan Khaunte towards getting the trusted traveller programme for Goa.The fast-track immigration…

Amritsar MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla with Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadgari Amritsar: Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla has urged Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari to approve an elevated corridor linking Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport with the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, saying the city must expand its road infrastructure before traffic increases further.According to a statement issued by Aujla’s office on Thursday, he told Gadkari that Amritsar, a major international gateway, was already facing heavy traffic on Airport Road and the situation would worsen once the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway became fully operational and the proposed…

A water colour sketch of the New OPD Building at SGPGI (for representational purposes) Lucknow: In what is being described as UP’s first such case, doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) have performed a caesarean section followed by a twin valve replacement procedure on a 26-year-old woman with advanced rheumatic heart disease.An SGPGI spokesperson said on Thursday that the procedure, performed on Jul 21, was also the country’s fourth such reported case.The woman was referred to SGPGIMS at 32 weeks of pregnancy. Evaluation revealed severe calcific aortic stenosis, severe mitral regurgitation and moderate pulmonary hypertension.Doctors said…

Patna: The Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) on Thursday arrested a junior engineer and two technician grade-III employees of the electricity department in Purnia for allegedly accepting a Rs 10,000 bribe for providing a domestic power connection.The accused were identified as junior engineer Bharat Malik and technicians Pankaj Kumar Mehta and Ashutosh Kumar Pandey.According to ADG Sudhanshu Kumar, the complainant alleged that Malik had demanded Rs 20,000-25,000, which was later negotiated to Rs 15,000 through Mehta. After Rs 5,000 had already been paid, the SVU laid a trap when the remaining Rs 10,000 was allegedly accepted through Ashutosh in the junior…

Neeraj Chopra (right) and Yashvir Singh after the men’s javelin throw final at the Commonwealth Games 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland Yashvir Singh, who won a bronze medal in men’s javelin throw at the Commonwealth Games (CWG), received a grand welcome in his hometown Jaipur on Tuesday evening. For celebrations and felicitations, Yashvir has been shuttling between his birthplace, Haryana, and Rajasthan, where he was raised. The 24-year-old athlete, who doesn’t want to rest on his laurels, was back to training on Wednesday. He says, “There is no break for me; performance is way more important. I am preparing for the…

Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court recently granted relief to an 18-year-old engineering student whose Scheduled Tribe (ST) quota admission was cancelled over an allegedly forged caste validity certificate, directing authorities to decide her caste claim within six months and reconsider her admission based on the outcome.A division bench comprising Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nivedita Mehta observed that the student herself was not named as an accused in the criminal case registered over the alleged forged document and that the allegations, at this stage, were confined to her father.The petitioner, a first-year Computer Science and Engineering student at…

Ranchi: Food safety officials on Thursday seized and destroyed over 800kg of suspected adulterated paneer and khowa from a sweet shop on Ratu Road, exposing what authorities believe is a long-running supply of substandard milk products in the city.A team, led by Ranchi food safety officer (FSO) (Zone I) Manoj Kumar, acting on a tip-off, conducted a raid at the establishment and recovered the suspected adulterated dairy products from the premises.FSO Kumar said the shop owner had allegedly been selling adulterated milk products for a considerable period.“During questioning, the seller disclosed that the paneer and khowa were sourced from neighbouring…

SuratThe deceased, Naresh Parmar, a native of Amreli district who was living in Kamrej had been brought to the court in connection with a theft caseSurat: A 33-year-old theft accused died after collapsing at Surat district court on Thursday evening, shortly after he was produced by Katargam police.The deceased, Naresh Parmar, a native of Amreli district who was living in Kamrej and working as a labourer, had been brought to the court in connection with a theft case. Court officials noticed his deteriorating condition and referred him for medical treatment. However, before he could be shifted to hospital, he collapsed…

Varanasi: The Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has drawn up a comprehensive action plan to strengthen cleanliness and civic services in the city from Sep 17, coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday. As part of the initiative, the civic body will distribute four lakh dustbins free of cost to two lakh households and expand its technology-driven quick grievance redressal system to 50 wards, aiming to resolve civic complaints within four hours.Inspired by the Prime Minister, who gave a new message of cleanliness to the country from Kashi in 2014, the VMC will distribute four lakh dustbins free of cost to…