The report of post-mortem performed on the body of a 21-year-old Dalit youth, found dead beside railway tracks in Namakkal district, was today submitted in the Madras High Court.
The report, along with the videography of post-mortem on the body of Gokul Raj, was submitted by the Dean of Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Hospital in Salem in a sealed cover to the high court registrar, complying with a court directive.
Land of Gram Samaj worth Rs 70 lakh was today cleared of encroachments in Dhanori village under Dankaur.
On directions from district magistrate N P Singh, Sub Divisional Magistrate Bachu Singh directed demolition of unauthorised construction in Dhanori village.
Tehsildar with police and PAC force reached the village and JCB machines started demolition of unauthorised constructions, clearing all encroachments from the Gram Samaj land.
After a week long hot and humid weather, heavy rains tonight lashed Jaipur city and adjoining areas giving respite to people from sweltering heat, a MeT official said.
Jaipur and adjoining sub-urban towns recorded about 40 mm of rainfall, the official said.
Scattered rainfall also occurred at many places in eastern parts of the state and a few places in western region.
South-West monsoon would further get activated in the next 24 hours in the state, according to a MeT forecast.
A Kurukshetra University professor today claimed that schemes introduced by Bibipur Sarpanch Sunil Jaglan, who was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘selfie with daughters’ idea, have made no difference to the lives of women in the village.
A senior Kurukshetra University (KU) Geography Professor, Mahabir Jaglan today claimed that a survey done by KU students in 2012 disputed Bibipur’s claim to fame in terms of efforts made in the drive against female foeticide and to bring changes in the women’s lives.
An RTI enquiry has revealed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s electricity bill over a two-month period exceeds Rs one lakh.
According to reports, documents procured by RTI activist Vivek Garg showed that Kejriwal had received two electricity bills worth Rs 55,999 and Rs 65, 780. (ANI)
A parliamentary delegation today visited the Delhi Police Headquarters to meet senior officers and discuss various issues including their functioning and the problems faced by them.
The visit came after a gap of many years.
The 14-member parliamentary delegation met the top brass of Delhi Police who apprised them of functioning of the force. They also visited the control room and Central Police Command to have an on-the-spot survey of the functioning.
Tamil Nadu government today told the Madras High Court that an interim compensation of Rs three lakh each would be paid to people infected with Hepatitis C Virus (HPV) due to alleged negligence after they underwent dialysis at the Stanely Medical College Hospital here from March 1 last year.
State Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan made the submission before the first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice T S Sivagnanam, and filed the report of an expert committee consisting of three eminent doctors who went into the issue.
An escaped killer who spent three weeks on the run was in stable medical condition Monday, a day after he was shot and recaptured in New York state, officials said.
David Sweat, 35, was shot twice in the torso by a state trooper just south of the Canadian border on Sunday.
He was transported to a hospital in the state capital Albany, where he was initially listed in critical condition.
Albany Medical Center medical director Dennis McKenna said doctors evaluated Sweat and determined he did not need surgery.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday extended his congratulations to shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa after they won the 2015 Canada Open badminton title.
The official twitter account of the Rashtrapati Bhavan shared his congratulations.
“Heartiest congratulations to Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa on winning women’s doubles title in Canada Open #President Mukherjee,” it posted.
Jwala and Ashwini clinched the Canada Open title after beating top pair Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek in their women’s doubles event in Calgary.
China wants Greece to stay in the euro and is ready to offer support on the debt crisis, Premier Li Keqiang said today, as Athens faces a referendum that could see it leave the single currency.
Li, the prime minister of the world’s second largest economy, said after a summit with EU leaders that it was a “critical” moment in the standoff between Greece and its EU-IMF creditors.
“China wants to see Greece stay in the eurozone and we urge relevant creditors to reach agreement with the Greek government at an a early time,” Li told a news conference.
The counting for the RK Nagar by-polls, which recorded a poll percentage of 74.4 percent, began on Tuesday morning.
Workers of the AIADMK gathered outside Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s residence, with her supporters anticipating her victory.
The RK Nagar seat fell vacant following the resignation of P. Vetrivel.
The DMK, PMK and VCK have boycotted the by-election for various reasons.
A total of 28 candidates are in the fray in this assembly segment. (ANI)
Four people, including a retired headmaster and a police head constable were allegedly killed by their relatives due to a dispute over two acres of land in Malpura hamlet, the Hiwarkhed police said here today.
The deceased have been identified as retired headmaster Baburao Charate (60), police head constable Dhanraj Charate (55) and his two sons, sons namely Shubham (22) as well as Gaurav (20), the police said.
Allegedly, their throats were slit and their dead bodies were found lying at the spot for over five hours last night, the police said.
The local administration of Shimla has been told to provide within 10 days information about the land purchase by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Vadra near this popular hill station, the Himachal Pradesh Information Commission has ruled.
“Provide information about Priyanka Vadra’s land deal at Mashobra (near Shimla) within 10 days to an RTI activist. The decision to impose penalty on the officials who failed to provide information within stipulated timeframe would be decided on July 23,” the commission said on Monday.
A senior government officer was duped of her jewellery by two conmen, who posed as policemen, while she was on her morning walk today.
The incident took place in Bapa Nagar area where the woman officer on a morning walk when she was approached by the two men in police uniform and advised her to take off her jewellery including bangles and chain in view of an alleged murder in the area, said a senior police officer.
JSW Steel today said it plans to raise up to Rs 4,000 crore through the Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) route as the steel maker eyes a capacity of 40 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) by 2025.
The company will take up the issue of raising a maximum of Rs 4,000 crore at its annual general meeting next month, July 28, it said in a BSE filing.
Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration Minister P Narayana said here today that all Godavari ‘pushkaram’ related works will be completed by July 5.
The 12-day ‘pushkaram’ event which is conducted along the banks of the river Godavari, is a religious bathing and temple worship ritual, scheduled to commence from July 14.
He said that 95 per cent of work has been completed and remaining work would be completed in two days.
Narayana, along with Rajahmundry city mayor P Rajani Seshasai inspected the the work completed so far.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will arrive here on Wednesday on a two-day visit to review the security arrangements for Amarnath Yatra and offer prayers at the Himalayan cave shrine on July 2.
The home minister will review the security arrangements for this year’s Amarnath Yatra along with Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and senior officials of state and central security forces on Wednesday, official sources here told IANS.
“He will also be part of the first batch of devotees to visit the Holy Amarnath Shrine on July 2,” a senior state government official said.
A 30-year-old man, working in a diamond polishing unit here, received burn injuries to face and hand when his mobile phone, kept in the pocket, exploded.
The incident took place when Bhavesh Thakkar, resident of Puna Gam area, was sitting with his friends at a shop this afternoon.
“I had kept my mobile phone in the upper left pocket of shirt. Suddenly it exploded, causing severe burns on the left side of my face and on hands. The phone was totally destroyed in the explosion,” Thakkar told PTI.
He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was discharged after preliminary treatment.
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook the Kashmir valley in the early hours of Tuesday.
“A moderate intensity earthquake occurred at 3.40 a.m. today,” an official of the local MET department here told IANS.
“The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.5 on the Richter scale. The epicentre of the earthquake was in Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan.”
The tremors were felt when Muslims had just finished their pre-dawn meal to begin the day’s fast on the 12th day of the holy month of Ramadan.
No loss of life or property was reported.
Four girls including two from Assam who were allegedly brought to Delhi on the pretext of job and then forced into prostitution were rescued by police and four persons arrested in this connection.
The accused have been identified as Sandeep Kumar alias Vikrant, his wife Aisha Begum, Chandan Kumar and Sunil Mishra. Police conducted two raids at different places in Delhi yesterday and arrested the accused and rescued four girls.
A state road transport corporation bus crushed an 18-months-old baby boy to death on the Warangal-Kazipet highway on Monday, after he slipped from his mother’s hands, a police official said.
According to a police official, the incident took place when T Sumalatha, a resident of Gopalapuram village tried to get down from an autorickshaw near a private hospital in the Subedari area, along with her 18-months-old boy.
Soon after the accident, the mother of the baby boy fell unconscious and was admitted to the hospital.
Gujarat Congress today sought Rs 2,000 crore package for the flood-affected people in the state.
“The Gujarat government should immediately announce a package of at least Rs 2,000 crore for those who have been affected by floods,” Gujarat Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki said here today.
“The devastation due to heavy rains and floods in Amreli district is huge. Farmers’ lands have been washed away and they cannot grow crops on it. Thousands of houses are destroyed and small businessmen are also affected due to the floods,” Solanki, who had recently visited the district, said.
Smoking will be banned in Australian state Victoria’s prisons from Wednesday, in a push to make prison life healthier for inmates.
The Victorian government flagged the ban last year, and the Corrections Department has been working with Quit Victoria, the state’s anti-smoking body, to formulate programmes specifically for the prison population, reported Xinhua news agency.
More than 80 percent of inmates smoke, but only 20 percent had attended quit programmes up until the end of May this year.
JNTU resolved the issue of admissions in 220 engineering colleges by giving permission to fill up 76,635 seats. According to a press note issued by JNTU 245 colleges had submitted petitions for permitting them to admit candidates out of which 220 colleges have been given permission rejecting the plea of 25 colleges. The rejected colleges have the option to approach the court.
–Siasat News
Osmania University has released the results of entrance tests for admissions into various PG courses. Prof. E. Suresh Kumar, Registrar of OU released these results yesterday. Present on this occasion were Prof. Gopal Reddy, Director of PG admission of OU. These results could be seen on university’s website http://ouadmissions.com/oucet/Download.html .
–Siasat News