Seventeen people, including 15 women, were hospitalised after ammonia gas leaked from the cooling unit of a food processing company at Bhandgaon in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Wednesday. One person is in the ICU and 16 others are out of danger, officials said on Thursday morning. The incident occurred in a ready-to-eat food preparation unit at Bhandgaon, located around 60 km from Pune, an officer from Yavat police station under the Pune rural jurisdiction said. “On Wednesday morning, after an incident of ammonia leak from the cooling unit in the…
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HC pulls up Godhra civic body for alloting sub-judice graveyard land to build fire station
Calling its actions an “overreach” and “disregard” for legal proceedings, the Gujarat High Court Tuesday admonished the Godhra Municipality in Panchmahal for issuing a work order to construct a fire station on a contentious graveyard regarding which a writ petition is sub-judice. It directed the civic body’s Chief Officer to be present before the court on August 13 to show cause as to why the HC should not issue a suo motu contempt notice in the matter. The matter pertains to City Survey Number 477 of Godhra, which is ‘prima…
Bengaluru police Crime Branch inspector dies by suicide | Bangalore News
A 44-year-old inspector of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bengaluru police allegedly died by suicide and his body was found near Bidadi, on the outskirts of the city, on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Thimmegowda, who was a police inspector of CCB’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW). According to a police officer, Thimmegowda’s body was found in a deserted place in Bidadi, where his family lived nearby. The locals who noticed the body alerted the police. The police were able to identify Thimmegowda by his identity card…
Know Your City: Azam Khan Sarai, a 17th-century monument in Ahmedabad that served as inn, armoury, prison and more | Ahmedabad News
Every Sunday, the crowd of devotees coming to pray at the Bhadrakali Mandir inside the Bhadra Fort, the city centre of ancient Ahmedabad, swells. Adjacent to the temple is the Government Book Depot, housed in a Mughal-style building with a magnificent 18-foot-high entrance and Persian epigraphy carved inside the gate’s recess. This building is what remains of Azam Khan Sarai. Built in 1637, the caravanserai, known as ‘the house of virtue and beneficence’, was commissioned by the then viceroy of Gujarat, Azam Khan. In M S Commissariat’s A History of…
Amid ‘panjiri’ row, Centre asks Punjab why contract was handed over to ‘private company’ | Chandigarh News
Days after senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal raised the issue of alleged “substandard panjiri” given to lactating mothers, pregnant women, and children in Punjab, the Centre has written to the state government, asking why the procurement of food items under the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) programme was handed over to a private company after taking it from state’s cooperative, Verka. The issue has hogged headlines in the state recently with Anganwadi workers alleging “rampant corruption” in the decision to take away the…
Which Vitamin D is right for you? Understanding the difference between D2 and D3
As you all know now, Vitamin D is an essential micronutrient that plays a vital role in maintaining our overall health, strengthening our immunity, bones and reducing inflammation, which, if unchecked, could be a precursor to heart disease. However, understanding the differences between various forms of vitamin D can be confusing, especially with the availability of separate supplements for vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. WHAT VITAMIN D DOES? Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps the body absorb calcium, which is crucial for building and maintaining healthy bones. It…
7 people shot, 1 fatally, at a park in upstate New York | World News
One person is dead and at least six others were injured following a mass shooting Sunday at a park in upstate New York. Rochester police said they responded to Maplewood Park around 6:20 p.m. to a large gathering with shots fired and found several people suffering from gunshot wounds. An adult in their 20s was killed, another person suffered a life threatening injury and five people were hospitalised with minor injuries, Capt. Greg Bello said. The identity of the victim fatally shot has not yet been released pending the notification…
A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
Communities in the US West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced evacuations in northern California. In eastern Oregon, a pilot was found dead in a small air tanker plane that crashed while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading across several Western states. More than 110 active fires covering 2,800 square miles (7,250 square kilometers) were burning in the US on Friday, according to the…
EAM Jaishankar reaches Laos for ASEAN meet | India News
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday reached here to participate in the ASEAN meeting and said he looked forward to deepening ties with the bloc as India marks a decade of its Act East Policy. Jaishankar was invited by Saleumxay Kommasith, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, to participate in the Foreign Ministers’ Meetings under the ASEAN framework in the format of ASEAN-India, East Asia Summit (EAS) and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). “Arrived in Vientiane, Laos to take part in the ASEAN-mechanism meetings. Look…
Alert issued to people living along Mutha River after release of water from Khadakwasla Dam
With the Khadakwasla Dam filled amid the incessant rainfall, the Pune administration on Wednesday released its water into the Mutha from the dam and issued an alert to people living along the river The catchment area of the Khadakwasla Dam, which is immediately upstream of the Mutha River and cuts across the city, has been receiving good rainfall for the last few days. The rain has filled the dam and the administration has started releasing water in the river at a speed of 9416 cusecs since 7 am. People who…