Heat wave continues in Rajasthan, Churu sizzles at 47 deg C
Jaipur, May 28 (PTI): Rajasthan reeled under hot weather conditions today with mercury settling at above 43 degrees Celsius in most parts of the state. However, the maximum temperature in comparison to yesterday saw a dip by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius. Churu was the hottest place in the state, recording its maximum at 47 degrees Celsius, followed by 45.6 degrees Celsius in Pilani and 44.6 degrees Celsius in Sriganganagar, the MeT Department said here.
CBSE result: Girls outperform boys yet again, pass percentage drops
New Delhi, May 28 (PTI): Girls outshone boys yet again in CBSE class XII examination results by a margin of over 9 per cent even, while the overall pass percentage dropped by over one per cent. The pass percentage for girls in the results which were announced today was 87.50, while for boys it was 78 per cent. Noida Girl Raksha Gopal emerged nation-wide topper in the exams with a whopping 99.6 per cent, while the second position was bagged by Chandigarh’s Bhumi Sawant who scored 99.4 per cent mark.
Two Kashmiris nabbed, bombs and arms seized in Bengal
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS): Three alleged members of a gang, including two Kashmir residents, have been arrested from West Bengal’s South 24-Parganas district, the state police said on Sunday. The police busted a gang of around 10 criminal elements from the forests South 24-Pargana district’s Joynagar and seized several arms and ammunition on Saturday. The officer said they have identified a local goon named Halim Seikh, but declined to give out the names of the two arrested Kashmiris in view of pending investigation.
Lightning kills 20 in Bihar
Patna, May 28 (IANS): At least 20 people, including children and women, were killed in lightning strikes on Sunday in Bihar as violent storms and heavy rains lashed a large part of the state, officials of the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority here said. The lightning strikes killed six people in Bettiah in West Champaran district, five in Jamui district, four in Motihari in East Champaran district, three in Bhagalpur, and one each in Vaishali and Samastipur districts. The state government has announced a compensation of Rs four lakh each to the affected families.
E-rickshaw driver lynched for objecting to youths urinating at metro station
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS): A 32-year-old e-rickshaw driver was lynched by a group of 15 youths, including two allegedly from Delhi University, after he objected to two of them urinating near a metro station in north Delhi. The incident occurred on Saturday evening at around 8.30 p.m. when the e-rickshaw driver, identified as Ravinder Kumar, objected to two students who he found were drinking alcohol and urinating on a wall near GTB Nagar Metro Station. Incensed at being chided by Kumar, the youths returned alongwith 15 of their friends. They began raining blows on Kumar for at least 20 minutes at the crowded station, but no one from the public came forward to rescue him. Kumar died on the spot. The youths used towels filled with stones to hit him, Pramod, a friend of Kumar, said.
Harping on the importance of waste management, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced to launch a “massive movement” for waste collection across 4,000 cities of the country from June 5. “We must not treat garbage as waste, it is wealth, a resource. Once we start looking it as wealth, we will come up with new means of waste management,” Modi said in his monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’. He said under the movement, separate dustbins -- green for liquid waste and blue for dry waste -- will be installed in these cities to develop a culture of segregating the two types of wastes.
The tunnelling work under the Hooghly river, the first such under-river project in the country, to provide Metro connectivity between Howrah and Kolkata is slated to be completed next week. The under-river tunnel is a crucial link for the Railway’s 16.6-km long East-West Metro project in Kolkata. The 520-metre twin tunnel, one east-bound and the other west-bound, is built 30 metre below the riverbed. The tunneling work started in April last year and likely to be completed in the river section shortly, a senior Railway ministry official said. The East-West Metro is scheduled to be operational by August, 2019. The internal diametre of each tunnel is 5.55 metre and the thickness of the wall is 275 mm. The distance between the two tunnels is 16.1 metre.
A Patidaar agitation activist hurled a shoe at Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya during a public function in this town in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district on Sunday, police said. Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convenor in Bhavnagar region Bhavesh Patel hurled the shoe at Mandaviya -- who hails from the same district -- while he was addressing a meeting organised by the Vallabhipur Municipality this afternoon. The shoe did not hit the Minister as it fell away from the dais. Patel was immediately taken into custody by the police present on the scene and was prevented from speaking to the media. His gesture was believed to be part of the on-going two-year-old quota agitation led by Hardik Patel’s PAAS, which has been trying to use every opportunity to demonstrate their opposition to the state’s BJP government.
A non-governmental organisation fighting for patients’ rights in India on Sunday pressed for an amendment to the Consumer Protection Act for disposal of cases of medical negligence through fast-track courts. The People for Better Treatment submitted a memorandum to the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) to seek amendment in the said Act of 1986 to check long delays in such cases. The NGO said fast hearings in medical negligence cases will help promote better healthcare delivery in India. “Complaints against errant doctors are kept pending endlessly by state medical councils only to protect the guilty,” the NGO said.
