LUCKNOW: UP vaccinated against rabies and sterilised 2.8 lakh stray dogs under its animal birth control (ABC) programme in 2023-24 and 2024-25. It also established 17 permanent ABC centres, with two additional ones approved for Lucknow and Ghaziabad on a comprehensive budget of Rs 34 crore.Taking note of SC’s latest directive on managing dog bite…
NEW DELHI: Two nine-year-old girls were allegedly gang-raped late last week by two men, a contractor and a caretaker, near an under-construction swimming pool on a private property in outer Delhi’s Narela. Both men have been arrested.Police said the girls, who are neighbours, were lured to an area near the pool on some pretexts. Anil…
NEW DELHI: Sharpening his criticism of the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday remarked that he had had the unique experience of having tea with some “dead” voters from Bihar. Rahul and other INDIA bloc netas are all set to embark on a ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ starting Aug 17,…
PATNA: Minta Devi, a 35-year-old from Bihar, who unexpectedly became the INDIA bloc’s “vote chori” mascot after a data entry error pegged her age at 124, on Wednesday objected to the opposition using her name and photo on T-shirts to target the Union govt.“Politics is being done in my name. Who gave Priyanka Gandhi and…
KOLKATA: Election Commission Wednesday gave Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant time till August 21 to comply with its directions to suspend four state officers and lodge FIRs against them and a data entry officer. The officers, working in Baruipur East and Moyna assembly segments, are facing allegations of lapses in voter inclusions in local electoral…
PUNE: A 39-year-old voter’s name was found appearing six times in the electoral roll of Maharashtra’s Palghar district, prompting collector Indu Jakhar to order a probe.The name appeared five times in one polling booth and once in another booth in the same assembly constituency.The duplication, flagged by activists on social media, led the state chief…
KANPUR: A 33-year-old man sexually assaulted and killed his 14-year-old cousin just hours after she had tied a rakhi on his wrist in Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh. The police cracked the case and apprehended the suspect, who was jailed on Tuesday.The incident occurred when the accused, Surjeet, visited his uncle’s home on Saturday morning and later…
NEW DELHI: Nearly four out of every 10 diabetics in India are unaware they have the disease, a new study published in Lancet Global Health has claimed.The study is based on an analysis of a survey carried out among 57,810 adults aged 45 years and older from 2017 to 2019. It found that 20% of…
NEW DELHI: The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) has suggested prioritising women in allocation of deceased donor organs.In a letter to the states/UTs, the apex authority for regulating organ donations and transplants in the country, has said a provision should be made to mark additional points for women recipients of donor organs, to…
NEW DELHI: Bringing down the curtain on the proceedings initiated against misleading advertisements for medicinal products, the Supreme Court has closed the case filed by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) against Patanjali Ayurved and its founders.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and K V Viswanathan said no further hearing was needed as the court…
