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…
NEW DELHI: An advisory panel of the environment ministry has given in-principle approval for diversion/de-notification of protected forest land for multiple projects in different states. These include the diversion of more than 109 hectares of forest land in West Bengal for a coal mine and de-notification of over 1,501 hectares of reserve forest land for…
AGRA: A 12-year-old girl suffered permanent vision loss in one eye after her aunt allegedly attacked her with a steel hairband in a fit of rage after the former accidentally dropped the latter’s infant daughter on the ground while playing. The girl, a Class 8 student, is undergoing treatment at All India Institute of Medical…
NEW DELHI: International military aviation analysts and historians have backed Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh’s recent assertion that during Operation Sindoor the IAF shot down at least five Pakistani air force jets and one big airborne early warning aircraft.Amid denials by Pakistan, Tom Cooper, renowned Austria-based aerial warfare expert has said that what ACM…
WASHINGTON: The US government noted abuses in India and Pakistan in a shortened human rights report released on Tuesday that said India “took minimal credible steps” to combat the abuses while Pakistan “rarely took credible steps.” The Trump administration scaled back the annual US govt report on human rights worldwide, dramatically softening criticism of some…
