PUNE: Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar had in Aug 2022 simultaneously applied for disability certificates for locomotor disability from District Civil Hospital, Aundh, and Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, Pimpri, both in Pune, report Nisha Nambiar & Swati Shinde Gole.She did so despite having secured disability certificates for low vision in 2018 and for mental depression…
MUMBAI: HUL is selling its water purification business to US-based water technology company AO Smith‘s Indian arm for an enterprise value of Rs 601 crore ($72 million). The move comes as the FMCG major looks to sharpen its focus on core categories, HUL said in a statement on Monday. It is also aligned with parent…
NAWADA/VADODARA: Bihar police arrested three youths on Monday after a video purportedly showing them waving a Palestinian flag ahead of a Muharram procession in Nawada went viral, while police in Gujarat questioned two minor boys in Savli near Vadodara in a similar case from Sunday.The Bihar youths were charged with attempting to disturb communal harmony…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday assured central assistance to states affected by floods as he spoke to chief ministers of Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to take stock of the situation.So far, 109 human lives have been lost in Assam due to floods and nearly six lakh displaced in several districts….
PATNA: The desire to earn respect from family and society made a 34-year-old man in Bihar take a bizarre route, but his gravy train was derailed by railway police, who uncovered his fake kidnapping plot.On Monday morning, railway police received a complaint that a newly appointed rural development officer was dragged off a train into…
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh high court has held that individuals migrating from one state to another cannot carry their caste status along, even if they are recognised as a Scheduled Tribe (ST) in both states. The ruling came from Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas, who highlighted that the recognition of a caste as an ST or OBC is…
BHOPAL: BJP MLA from Guna, Pannalal Shakya, has triggered a controversy by telling students that college degrees are of no use and they should rather open “motorcycle puncture repair shops”. Ironically, Shakya’s ‘advice’ came at the inauguration of a PM College of Excellence in Guna on Sunday – on the same day that Union home…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan filed a special leave petition in Supreme Court Monday, asking to be made party to a case pertaining to the constitutional validity of marital rape being treated as an exception under Section 375 of the IPC. The BJP govt’s petition cites a heap of marital-rape cases in the desert state as the reason…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Callousness at Thiruvananthapuram‘s Medical College Hospital hit bizarre heights when a patient visiting the outpatient OP wing of the govt-run facility got trapped inside a lift and went unnoticed for two days.A lift operator who came for duty Monday noticed Raveendran Nair unconscious inside the lift, stuck between the first and second floor of…
GUWAHATI: Assam has had just eight applicants for citizenship under CAA to date and six of them are still to report for interviews, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Monday, contradicting projections by some organisations that the state’s population could potentially swell by up to 50 lakh because of this provision.“When I contacted some Hindu Bengali…
