Delhi resident found an old school certificate while searching for electoral documents. NEW DELHI: Across Delhi, steel almirahs are being opened, dusty trunks dragged out and cardboard boxes emptied as families search for birth certificates, school records and electoral slips amid the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.For 46-year-old Sharad Kumar Sharma,…
Corporation playground at Vyasarpadi Chennai: Seven years after Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) promised to develop a football and cricket ground near Jeeva railway station in Vyasarpadi, the civic body is now planning to build a football turf and badminton court instead. Residents have opposed the proposal, arguing that they need a full-fledged public playground rather…
The department collected 9,029 water samples from various areas for chlorine testing during this period Ahmedabad: The civic body’s health department released the city’s epidemic statistics on Tuesday. According to the data, 96 cases of diarrhoea and vomiting, 60 cases of typhoid, and nine cases of jaundice were registered in the city in the first…
Kolkata: CBI and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Mumbai, supported by Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, jointly raided multiple locations in Maharashtra and Bengal and busted a wildlife smuggling racket and rescued 53 animals and birds.Six alleged key members of the syndicate were arrested and charged under provisions of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and criminal…
Over 75% of registered applicants have finalised their admissions, nearly 399,442 students are still awaiting placement Pune: The directorate of education has directed all higher secondary schools and junior colleges across Maharashtra to commence first year junior college (FYJC) classes on July 15, even as the admission process continues through special rounds.The decision follows the…
NEW DELHI: Truecaller on Wednesday said users are blocking four lakh calls originating from 140-series and over 1.2 lakh calls from 1,600-series numbers everyday as it lobbied against whitelisting (verified number system).Since Oct, users have recorded 7.4 crore blocking actions on the two number series, while nearly four out of five calls from them are…
Football (Representational Image) Former Romania midfielder Gabriel Muresan has died at the age of 44 after drowning in a lake near Apold, the town where he served as mayor, according to a report from news agency AP. Muresan, who became mayor in 2020, was remembered for both his football career and his service to the…
Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Satluj’ was removed from OTT within two days of its release and it created a huge stir on the internet. As per the latest update on the matter, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) being filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking the film’s restoration on ZEE5. The petition comes just days…
For people living across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, early July brought another reminder of how quickly conditions can change in the western Pacific. Super Typhoon Bavi arrived as an exceptionally powerful storm, crossing near the islands with destructive winds, heavy rain and dangerous coastal flooding. According to Nasa, the cyclone reached its greatest…
Bumblebees may be carrying a far heavier burden of toxic metals than honeybees, even when both species forage in the same countryside. The research found that pollen collected by bumblebees contained between two and seven times higher concentrations of several harmful metals, including arsenic, chromium, lead and tin, compared with pollen gathered by nearby honeybees….
