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A red sandstone gateway with Lord Ram’s bow Kodanda has been installed on the UP Gate side of the road Ghaziabad: As part of a beautification drive, Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation has built a gateway with Lord Ram’s bow Kodanda atop it on the UP Gate side of Hindon Elevated Road and installed a 22-foot statue of Ram Lalla on the RNE side of the stretch. Although the civic body’s executive committee approved renaming the stretch as ‘Ram Setu’ in 2024, the road continues to be referred to as Hindon Elevated Road in official records.“In 2024, the GMC board had unanimously…

An AI-generated editorial illustration shows three corporate employees under police investigation for allegedly stealing and selling confidential company data Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police on Tuesday registered a case of cheating against three former officials of a private company in Khed taluka for allegedly stealing the company’s confidential data and selling it to a rival company.The company’s chief human resources officer lodged a complaint against the former general manager, former quality control manager and former sales and marketing head with the Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police.They have been charged under Sections 316 (criminal breach of trust) and 318 (cheating) of…

Tejpal compared himself to jailed activist Umar Khalid and said he would challenge the judgment in the Supreme Court Panaji: Hours after the Bombay high court convicted him of rape and sentenced him to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment, former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal on Thursday termed the verdict a “political conviction”, compared himself to jailed activist Umar Khalid and said he would challenge the judgment in Supreme Court.“We will get justice in Supreme Court. We believe we have more than enough evidence to exonerate me. We received a very terrible, very unfair order and we will go to Supreme Court…

Boxing gold medallist Ankush Panghal poses during a felicitation ceremony by Union sports minister in New Delhi on Tuesday Hisar: A 25-km victory procession, flower showers, drumbeats, folk performances and a community feast marked Commonwealth Games boxing champion Ankush Panghal’s triumphant homecoming to Hisar on Friday after he clinched the 80kg gold in Glasgow, Scotland.Panghal was taken in a 25-km victory procession from Gate No. 4 of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (HAU) to his native Bheriya village, where a grand civic reception awaited him. Crowds lined the route, showering flowers at five points as drumbeats, folk performances and…

Lucknow: Police detained three people and launched a search for others after a bull was found slaughtered inside a defunct rice mill in the Thakurganj area in the early hours of Thursday, officials said.An FIR has been registered at Thakurganj police station against unidentified persons under relevant provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act.Police said a patrol team received information around 11 pm that a bull had been slaughtered inside the abandoned Krishna Agrawal Rice Mill in New Haiderganj. When officers reached the site, they found the carcass with its throat slit and the…

Patna: Social welfare minister Shweta Gupta on Thursday said the appointment of 22,000 anganwadi functionaries would strengthen the implementation of child development programmes, particularly those related to education and nutrition.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the JD(U)’s ‘jan sunwai’ programme at the party headquarters, Shweta said the cabinet had recently approved the recruitment proposal.She also said monthly social security pensions had been credited to beneficiaries’ accounts. Cases where payments failed due to technical or other errors were being reviewed, and the pending amounts would be transferred after the issues were rectified. Source link

Five families were evacuated from a three-storey house in Walled City Thursday after the structure developed deep cracks and began leaning dangerously, prompting authorities to seal the area amid fears of a collapse at Mohalla Tikkigran, near Paach Neem Cemetery behind Idgah Mosque in Galtagate area in Jaipur, Rajasthan on 06 August 2026 Jaipur: Five families were evacuated from a three-storey house in Walled City Thursday after the structure developed deep cracks and began leaning dangerously, prompting authorities to seal the area amid fears of a collapse.Five families were evacuated from a three-storey house in Walled City Thursday after the…

Nagpur: Maharashtra legislature secretariat has formally initiated the construction of two major buildings under the long-awaited expansion of Nagpur Vidhan Bhavan, paving the way for a Rs1,002.76 crore project that aims to transform the old complex into a modern legislative hub.Two memorandums issued by the legislature secretariat on July 31 show that the project has been split into two components. The first involves construction of a new legislature and annex building (Part-I) at an approved cost of Rs662.98 crore, while the second comprises a 14-storey administrative building (Part-II) costing Rs339.78 crore. Together, the two projects will cost Rs1,002.76 crore, significantly…

SP Nathu Singh Meena at the press conference on Thursday Bokaro: In June this year, cyber criminals siphoned off Rs 7.65 lakh from the bank accounts of 82-year-old Narendra Kumar Sinha in an online scam. A resident of Gujarat Colony in Bokaro, Sinha registered a complaint with the Cyber Police station on June 23.On Thursday, SP Nathu Singh Meena said police have recovered Rs 7 lakh. The fraudsters, Meena said, had transferred the stolen money for online shopping transactions. Based on Sinha’s complaint, police alerted the concerned banks, payment gateways and financial agencies, requesting them to place the suspicious transactions…

SMC had removed the area-based water charge/water tax component from property tax bills Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Thursday issued a clarification on water charge and water tax collection system, aiming to resolve confusion that has led to widespread non-payment in recent years.Earlier, SMC had removed the area-based water charge/water tax component from property tax bills and began issuing separate water meter bills from 2023. The charges were calculated on a pro-rata basis across the billing cycle. However, the move triggered disputes and complaints from taxpayers over the method and overlapping demands, resulting in many residents withholding payment.In…