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Kendrapada: Over three-fourths of Odisha’s rural households now have tap water connections under Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission, with coverage rising from just 3.1 lakh homes in 2019 to 68.73 lakh by Aug this year, Union minister of state for jal shakti V Somanna informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday.Replying to a question by BJD MP Sasmit Patra, Somanna said that drinking water is a state subject and that the govts are responsible for planning, implementation, operation and maintenance of supply schemes. The Centre supports states through financial assistance, policy guidance and technical inputs, he added.Launched in August 2019 under the…
The protest was led by the residents welfare association members COIMBATORE: Residents of Sivalingapuram in Ondipudur besieged the Coimbatore Corporation’s east zone office in Singanallur on Monday, demanding construction of a railway overbridge (ROB) at the level crossing no. 3 at Surya Nagar.The residents said a govt order sanctioning the overbridge in Ward 56 was issued on Dec 7, 2011. The corporation passed a resolution on June 1, 2012, handing the road over to the highways department, but cancelled it on April 25, 2013.Following a petition by the residents’ welfare association, the corporation, acting on a high court direction, revoked…
A case was registered on the complaint, following which a police team arrested Audi driver Mayank Kumar, 25, a resident of Tirpadi village in Gurgaon. GURGAON: Gurgaon police have arrested an Audi driver for allegedly hitting a motorcycle and a car while driving at high speed under the influence of alcohol, news agency PTI reported quoting officials on Monday.The Audi involved in the incident has been taken into police possession, police said.According to a complaint lodged at Bajghera police station on Monday, the complainant was travelling towards Dharam Colony from the Dwarka Expressway on a motorcycle with his friend.When they…
Lucknow: A 20-year-old woman from Lucknow’s Chinhat has accused eight neighbours of repeatedly harassing, assaulting and threatening her and her family over the past year. Police registered an FIR on Aug 7 following a court order.The complainant, Afreen, a resident of New Kanshiram Colony, alleged that the harassment began in March 2025. In her complaint, she named Imran, Rizwan, Momin Khan, Arman, Bablu, Reshma, Rukhsana and Mehrun Nisha, all residents of the same locality.According to the FIR, Afreen alleged that several of the accused routinely passed inappropriate remarks and harassed her. She claimed that on Aug 12, 2025, some of…
Patna: The Patna high court has upheld a state govt order sending Karnvir Singh Yadav alias Lallu Mukhiya to Bhagalpur central prison under preventive detention, while also validating the state’s action declaring him “anti-social” under the Bihar Control of Crimes Act 2024.Karnvir, a local politician with a chequered criminal history in Barh sub-division of Patna district, was placed under preventive detention twice, each for six months, through orders passed by the district magistrate (DM) of Patna on Dec 10 last year and June 6 this year.A division bench comprising justices Bibek Chaudhuri and Rana Vikram Singh dismissed a criminal writ…
Deceased Gangotri Saini (34) Kota : A 34-year-old woman died at JK Lon Hospital, 30 hours after delivering a healthy baby late Saturday night. Deceased’s angry family created ruckus on the hospital premises and accused the staff of medical negligence. The hospital authorities have refuted negligence, claiming the woman was already in the high-risk pregnancy category with high blood pressure and Hepatitis B. The deceased was identified as Gangotri Saini (34), a resident of Kheda Rasoolpura village in Kaithun.The woman, in advanced labour pain and with severe hypertension, arrived at the hospital Saturday afternoon from Kaithun govt hospital and was…
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Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Monday directed the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) and the state govt to keep 70 posts vacant for appointment of assistant teachers.A division bench of Chief Justice MS Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar was hearing JSSC’s appeal against a single-judge order directing it to consider candidates holding two-year BEd degrees.The JSSC had excluded such candidates, citing the 2022 Rules for Appointment of Assistant Teachers, which prescribed a one-year BEd degree as the minimum requirement.The advertisement was challenged before the single judge, who on July 14, 2025, ruled that candidates with two-year BEdcourses would also…
Police have started an inquiry into a complaint about two students consuming banned substances. THANE: Police have launched a preliminary inquiry into a complaint alleging that two students consumed banned substances on the premises of a private school in Thane, an official said on Monday.The inquiry follows a complaint submitted by local Shiv Sena leader Eknath Bhoir to Vartak Nagar police station senior inspector Pravin Mane, seeking an immediate investigation into the matter.Police said the complaint was based on a video clip that allegedly shows the two students consuming ‘drugs’ on the school premises.A police officer said the students seen…
T’puram: Peroorkada Police booked a police recruit for allegedly collecting Rs.7.18 lakh from fellow trainees for uniform materials and stitching charges and subsequently losing the money in online betting.The accused is Sambhu R Krishnan, attached to KAP-3, Pathanamthitta. The case was registered on the complaint of Mujeeb Rahman, 55, officer commanding of B company, SAP Battalion, Peroorkada.The police said Krishnan was a member of a seven-member uniform panel and allegedly told recruit trainees that money for uniform materials and stitching could be deposited with the SAP dry canteen and Wilson Allied Police Uniform Society.Between July 3 and July 13, several…