Patna: Two young girls feared drowned while bathing with their family members in the Ganga river during wedding rituals in Chiraiya village, under Bakhtiyarpur police station area in Patna district on Saturday morning.The incident took place around 11am when four cousins entered the deep waters of the river near Ganga Sthan to bathe. While two…
फाइल फोटो Jamshedpur: A 37-year-old man was killed by suspected Maoists in West Singhbhum district late on Friday. The deceased Ramesh Champia alias Chamra was a resident of Roigutu village under Chotanagra police station limits and was engaged with a construction company which is building roads in Saranda forest and Goilkera areas, the police said…
Ranchi: The health department on Saturday felicitated 10 panchayat representatives, mainly mukhiyas from different districts, for their contributions in controlling malaria and filaria cases through awareness campaigns and community participation.Addressing the World Malaria Day event, National Health Mission (NHM), Jharkhand director, Shashi Prakash Jha said, “The govt is serious about protecting people’s health. With regular…
A trailer truck carrying the flight hardware of Indian leading space startup Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 — India’s first privately developed orbital rocket in Hyderabad — was flagged off by Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday, marking the rocket’s formal departure to the launch site at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Skyroot is set…
Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway’s Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came to a standstill on Budge Budge Road from around 2 pm as at least 6 to…
Thane: A magistrate court acquitted NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad and 11 of his accomplices in the Viviana Mall assault case after the complainant and all prosecution witnesses turned hostile. The judgment, delivered by Joint Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class R B Khandare, concluded that the prosecution had failed to establish the charges…
New Delhi: A 15-year-old boy died after a tempo allegedly collided with a motorcycle in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh on Saturday. The tempo driver allegedly abandoned his vehicle and fled. Chief minister Rekha Gupta later held roadside encroachments responsible for the incident.The boy was on the bike with a friend, also a minor, police said….
Chennai: Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) plans to expand composting infrastructure to strengthen solid waste management across the city. A 1,000-tonne windrow compost plant will be set up on 20acres of biomined land at Perungudi dump yard under a public-private partnership model.In north Chennai, two additional composting plants, each with a capacity of 50 tonnes a…
Patna: Since April 2016, when the Nitish Kumar-led govt enforced complete prohibition under the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, the state has been locked in an unrelenting, high-stakes battle against liquor smuggling from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal. What began as a policy decision has evolved into a sweeping enforcement campaign, marked by…
Daltonganj: A quick response team (QRT) of the forest department rescued a herd of six nilgais from a kutcha well in a village under Chainpur police station limits of the district on Saturday.Satyam Kumar, the divisional forest officer of Medininagar forest division, said news reached that the herd had fallen into a well in Talee…
