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23 Jul

Elephant carcass found in Jharkhand

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On Saturday, the dead body of an adult male elephant was found in a forest in Jharkhand's Ranchi district. “The cause of death is yet to be known. No injury marks were found on the body. A team of forest officials and a veterinary doctor have been sent to the spot, and the post-mortem examination is underway,” said Srikanth Verma, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Ranchi. The cause is still under investigation, the report said.

23 Jul

E-ticketing bus service in Assam

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Assam State Transport Corporation has launched an online bus e-ticketing service. The service was initially launched in Kamrup (Metropolitan) and Sonitpur districts in collaboration with Assam Electronics Development Corporation Limited (AMTRON), said a notification issued by Rahul Chandra Das, Managing Director of ASTC. The software is designed for a pilot project from Guwahati to Tezpur via Nagaon and other routes will follow later. For more information, tickets are available at www.astcbus.com and passengers can contact the help desk or grievance redressal cell at astc2009@gmail.com. There is also a 24/7 toll-free help desk at 1800-345-3986 for passenger grievance redressal.

23 Jul

Bengal minister arrested over school jobs scam

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West Bengal Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested on Saturday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the probe into the alleged school job scam. The TMC general secretary, who was the state education minister when the scam took place, was arrested after about 26 hours of grilling about the probe.The ED must inform the Speaker before arresting any member of the assembly, speaker Biman Banerjee said. “The ED or the CBI, while arresting any MP or MLA, must inform the Speaker of the Lok Sabha or Assembly. This is the constitutional rule. But I have not received any…

22 Jul

Actor Salman Khan meets Mumbai police commissioner

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On Friday Bollywood actor Salman Khan met with Vivek Phansalkar, Mumbai Police Commissioner at the latter's office in South Mumbai. According to reports, Khan also met Biswas Nangre Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order). Last month, Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan received a letter threatening to meet the fate of Punjabi singer Sidhu Musewala, who was killed in May. Khan's security has been beefed up after the letter.

22 Jul

Two wanted criminals arrested in Haryana

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Two wanted criminals have been arrested in separate cases of murder and abduction in Haryana's Bahadurgarh and Bhiwani. Accused Lokesh alias Gogi and Vijender alias Punji were arrested on Thursday. According to reports, the Rohtak police team received specific inputs that the district police and their associates from Jind, Gurugram and Hisa were roaming in the Bahadurgarh area with the intention of committing a criminal offense. Police immediately find our location and arrested Lokesh alias Gogi, who is a resident of Shital Nagar.

22 Jul

Four inter-state robbers arrested in UP

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Four out of seven inter-state dacoits were arrested in a police encounter near the Sarurpur canal. Five motorcycles, a two-wheeler and two 315 bore pistols along with four live and two empty cartridges were recovered from them, Superintendent of Police (City) Martand Prakash Singh said. The inter-state dacoits, Jitendra, Kuldeep, Kapil and Shiv Singh are from Rajasthan and Bholu, Bhola and Gopal are residents of Mathura, police said. The robbers opened fire and the police fired in self-defense, the report said.

21 Jul

Congress to protest outside ED office in Shimla

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The Himachal Pradesh unit of the Congress will stage a protest outside the sub-zonal office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday.The protest is against the federal probe agency summoning Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. According to the information, Sonia Gandhi was questioned in a money-laundering probe link to the National Herald-Associated Journals Limited case for which protest will be staged outside the ED's Chhota Shimla office around noon.

21 Jul

TMC’s Martyrs’ Day rally on West Bengal

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A large number of people from West Bengal gathered at Esplanade in the heart of the city for the mega Martyrs' Day rally of the ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday amid tight security. Many of them arrived in the city two days earlier for the rally, which will be addressed by TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee. TMC workers were seen arriving in overflowing local trains at two terminal stations in Howrah and Sealdah holding party flags. At least four and a half thousand policemen have been deployed across the city to maintain law and order in the city during the day.…

21 Jul

Assam adds another 830 new COVID-19 cases

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Assam recorded 830 new COVID-19 cases, the highest one-day spike since February 3, taking the tally to 7,32,492. According to a report, two deaths have occurred due to the infection – one each in Jorhat and Nalbari. The death toll stands at 8,008. Assam now has 5,243 active cases, with a total of 7,19,241 people having recovered from the disease so far. Kamrup Metropolitan District, which primarily comprises Guwahati city, reported 37 new covid cases, followed by Sonitpur (71) Baksa (84), and Dibrugarh (57).

20 Jul

Assam logs 755 COVID cases with 3 deaths

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Assam reports 755 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths; The overall number of Covid-19 cases in the state has risen to 7,31,662. New cases were detected from 7,121 samples tested with a positivity rate of 10.60 per cent per day. According to the report, Baxa district reported the highest number of 64 new cases, followed by Goalpara with 63 and Kamrup Metropolitan and Dibrugarh with 60 cases each. Cachar, Kamrup Metropolitan and Udalguri districts reported one death each, keeping the day's tally unchanged at three.