Pune: Paying school bus fees through UPI is set to get expensive as the Pune Bus and Car Owners Association has decided to push the burden of MDR on parents.Payment gateways are set to charge a merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 from Oct 15. Since many operators collect bus fees…
Panaji: Two women, a mother and her daughter, were injured after a blast due to an LPG cylinder leakage early Thursday at New Vaddem, Vasco.The injured women have been identified as Hema Godchi (37) and Sumitra Kambi (27). Both were residing in a house adjacent to the shop near the New Vaddem bus stop.The incident…
School authorities have been instructed to upload the videos to school websites, post them in parents’ WhatsApp groups and submit a mandatory quota of 10 video clips per school alongside their PTM reports Ludhiana: Punjab govt has directed schoolteachers to record video testimonials from parents about its welfare scheme, “Mawan-Dhiyaan Satkar Yojana,” during a statewide…
The accused, identified as Ravindra Shankar Gupta LUCKNOW: A 56-year-old Home Guard personnel allegedly strangled his wife and 32-year-old daughter to death using a mobile phone charging cable at their residence in the Bhola Kheda locality of Krishna Nagar in Lucknow on Friday morning.The accused, identified as Ravindra Shankar Gupta, informed the police about the…
Patna: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Patna, has provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs 1.09 crore belonging to a Sheikhpura-based rice mill firm and its associates in a money laundering case linked to the alleged diversion of custom milled rice (CMR) meant for the Bihar govt.The properties were attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act…
The party also raised concerns over the proposed closure of metro stations and train cancellations ahead of its October 10 protest in Delhi NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) on Friday alleged that its national organisation co-in-charge, Deepak Baliyan, had been placed under house arrest, claiming that around 40 police personnel in plain clothes…
Nagpur: A three-year-old girl’s death at Colors Hospital in Ajni triggered a violent attack on doctors and hospital staff on Thursday, with an unruly crowd storming the ICU, assaulting medical personnel and damaging equipment, as per CCTV footage submitted to police. A complaint was lodged at Dhantoli police station by hospital director and senior paediatrician…
The incident took place on Vadva Panwadi Road in Bhavnagar Rajkot: Two people were trapped under debris and had to be hospitalised after a two-storey house collapsed during repair work on Vadva Panwadi Road in Bhavnagar around 1 pm on Monday.The injured have been identified as 85-year-old Rajendra and Rajesh Chauhan. Preliminary investigations revealed that…
Ranchi: The ICAR–Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (ICAR-IIAB) organised a Pre-Rabi Farmer Meet-cum-Agricultural Input Distribution Programme under the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) on Thursday, bringing together 1,500 farmers from Ranchi, Khunti, Gumla and Ramgarh districts to facilitate direct interaction between farmers, scientists and policymakers and to promote the adoption of scientific…
Surat: A city-based company lost Rs 20 lakh to cyberfraud after scammers hacked its accountant’s mobile phone, impersonated a company director on WhatsApp and induced the accountant to transfer funds to a third-party bank account.According to the FIR registered at Cyber Crime police station on Monday, Dharmesh Kapadia, 49, owns Etherbit Pvt Ltd in the…
