Mumbai: Cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria—the deadliest strain—rose from 375 to 2,382 between 2015 and 2025 in the city, driving up its share of the total cases from 5.5% to 25.3%, shows BMC health department’s data.BMC officials attributed the 535.2% jump to an increase in testing, but testing went up by 32.3% in the same…
Araria: Police seized 5,448 litres of foreign liquor, estimated to be worth Rs 50 lakh, from a container near Laluabadi Chowk under Jokihat police station area of Araria district on Saturday evening. The consignment was allegedly being transported from West Bengal to Muzaffarpur. The container driver was arrested, and a cellphone was recovered from his…
Hisar: Police and drug control teams raided 22 medical stores across Hisar district in a crackdown on misuse of medicines as intoxicants. Seven outlets were found stocking dual-use drugs without proper records, while registered pharmacists were absent at three stores, officials said.Teams of 11 drug control officers from eight districts, along with police, inspected stores…
Gandhinagar: Inquiries into irregularities flagged in a BEd college in Gir Somnath district have exposed potential regulatory violations in around 70 private colleges across the state. The institutions have come under govt scrutiny after they were found to be running without valid National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) approval, mandatory for university affiliation and student…
Coimbatore: The city police, in association with volunteers, distributed cheques totalling Rs7.3 lakh to 18 children of victims of various crime cases handled by them. The assistance was distributed at the city police commissionerate on Saturday.For children who lost their parents or whose families were pushed into financial distress by crime, the city police’s Kavasam…
A narrow vote, a wider divide Jaipur: BJP and Congress were separated by less than one percentage point in vote share in Rajasthan’s 309 urban local body elections, but the gap widened sharply when it came to wards won.BJP polled 99,615 more votes than Congress, but it won 566 more wards.Across the 309 urban local…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has kept income tax slabs unchanged for FY 2026–27, continuing the same structure that applied in FY 2025–26 under both the new tax regime and the old tax regime. With the new Income Tax Act set to come into force in the coming months, expectations of major tax relief were already…
NAMAKKAL: Three members of a family died on the spot and four others suffered injuries when a sport utility vehicle (SUV) collided with a car at Nallipalayam in Namakkal district in the early hours of Wednesday.Police identified the deceased as S Karthik Kumar, 35, his father, K Selvaraj, 60, and his mother, S Gandhimathi, 55….
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