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The findings are based on a detailed survey of 2,426 on-board passengers across 96 selected trains, conducted by audit offices from 16 zones. NEW DELHI: In a telling indicator of the persistent cleanliness issues on long-distance trains — from choked toilets and unclean washbasins to lack of water and dirty vestibule areas — an audit…

BATHINDA: Acting on specific intelligence, a party of Barnala police team apprehended four members of a group associated with Bambiha gang. Four weapons including a Turkey made Zigana pistol has been recovered from the arrested persons, belonging to Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Those arrested have been identified as Satnam Singh @ Satti (linked with Bambiha…

A shocking case has emerged from Odisha’s Ganjam district, where a nursing home proprietor has been arrested for allegedly conducting a delivery without any medical qualification, leading to the death of both a mother and her newborn. Police said Mangulu Charan Pradhan (35), a resident of Dengausta, carried out the procedure inside his nursing home…

Heavy rains over the weekend have battered Himachal Pradesh, closing hundreds of roads, cutting power and water supply, and flooding several homes.Officials said on Sunday that a total of 484 roads, including two national highways, have been closed for vehicular traffic as moderate to heavy showers continue across the state.The local meteorological office has issued…

Video credits: X/@officeofabhi NEW DELHI: A man, inspired by the Bollywood movie “Sholay,” tried to reminisce the iconic water tanker scene by climbing a mobile tower in a Bhadohi village on Sunday, threatening to jump unless his “girlfriend” was brought to him for marriage. The man, identified as Pawan Pandey, ran a paan shop on…

A brutal case of murder has emerged in Hyderabad, where a five-month pregnant woman was brutally killed, allegedly by her husband, who then dismembered her body and disposed of the parts in the Musi river.The incident took place at around 4.30 pm on Saturday at their residence in Medipally. The accused, a 27-year-old driver with…

NEW DELHI: An IndiGo flight from Dibrugarh to Guwahati carrying Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was diverted to Agartala on Sunday after bad weather prevented it from landing in Guwahati, the chief minister’s office (CMO) said.Earlier in the day, IndiGo issued a travel advisory highlighting the weather situation in Guwahati. “Persistent rainfall and thunderstorms…

NEW DELHI: Ram Shankar Bind, the 20-year-old arrested for attempting to scale the wall of the Parliament complex in Delhi, has been released after questioning by central agencies, his family said on Sunday.Bind, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi district, was detained on Friday morning after security personnel stopped him as he tried to climb…

Former Jharkhand CM and BJP leader Champai Soren was placed under house arrest on Sunday morning, just hours before he was due to join a protest against the state government’s plan to acquire farmland for the proposed Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS-2) in Kanke, Ranchi.“To prevent the voice of the tribal/indigenous farmers of Nagdi…

Arunachal’s Begging village signs MoU for pre-feasibility report of Siang project Community support for the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh has been steadily growing, with a fresh wave of village-level MoUs reflecting confidence in the project’s potential to protect lives, livelihoods and the future of the region. The latest to join were…