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As per the FIR, offence has been registered against one Nazario D’Souza from Santa Cruz in North Goa, under Section 500 of the IPC, and Section 2 of Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971.The Old Goa police acted on complaint filed by one Inacio Pereira, also from Santa Cruz, stating that the “accused person had depicted the Prime Minister as chameleon on the national flag, which he posted on Facebook, thereby insulting the national flag”.According to Inacio Pereira, he found the post on Facebook on the eve of Independence day.A senior police officer told IANS that a notice…

Bengaluru, Aug 17 (IANS) Shivamogga Lions prevailed over the Gulbarga Mystics in a final over thriller to win their third consecutive game in the Shriram Capital Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20, here on Thursday. Chasing an imposing target of 176, Shivamogga Lions were reduced to 39-5, before contributions from Shreyas Gopal (52), Abhinav Manohar (28), S Shivraj (27 not out) and HS Sharath (31 not out) took them home from a difficult position. They chased down the target in 19.5 overs with three wickets in hand.Asked to bat first by the Shivamogga Lions’ skipper Shreyas Gopal, the Gulbarga Mystics were off…

The yatras that will commence from Gogamedi, Beneshwardham, Trinetra Ganesh Temple and Ramdevra would be attended by local MLAs, office bearers and Union Ministers, they added.As the state has been dived into four zones, the party has decided to take out the yatra from each of the zones.As of now, the four leaders who have been reportedly assigned the task to lead these yatras are former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Deputy Leader of Opposition Satish Poonia and state BJP President C.P. Joshi.The four veteran leaders have asked the local leaders to remain united in the…

A bench comprising Justices Bela M. Trivedi and Dipankar Datta set aside the order of the Gujarat High Court reducing the payable compensation.Lands in the villages Morlipura, Kumetha and Nimeta of Waghodia taluka, district Vadodara, were acquired for the project and the land acquisition officer calculated the market value of the lands at Rs 1.90 per square metre.Later, the Reference Court in May 2007 enhanced the amount of compensation by returning a finding that the market value of the lands should have been reckoned as Rs 40 per square metre. The state carried the same in appeals before the high…

Speaking to reporters, Shivakumar said: “We are facing shortage of water due to less rainfall. In spite of that, we had released water earlier (to Tamil Nadu). We are not able to make them happy. It is important for us to store the water for drinking purposes rather than for using it for agriculture. In this background, a memorandum will be submitted to the tribunal.”Reacting to former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy demanding an all-party meeting, Shivakumar said there was nothing wrong in it.”The all party meeting should be conducted on river Mahadayi, river Krishna and other important inter-state matters,” he said.Former…

A Mizoram police officer said that acting on a tip-off, the Aizawl District Special Branch (DSB) team arrested Sourabh Nath (34) and Mohammad Nur Ahmed (39) and seized 2.330 kg Methamphetamine tablets from their possession.Nath and Ahmed are residents of northern Tripura, adjoining Mizoram and Bangladesh.The police, quoting the arrested drug peddlers, said the Methamphetamine tablets, commonly known as ‘Yaba’ or ‘party’ tablets, were brought in from Myanmar and were intended to be smuggled into Bangladesh.On Tuesday, the police had arrested two persons from Assam with 500 gm heroin and 5.32 kg Methamphetamine tablets in Serchhip district.–IANSsc/arm

A stellar show with the bat, led by M. Taha (52), Krishnan Shrijith (52) and skipper Manish Pandey (69 not out) helped the Hubli Tigers stamp their authority. Debutant Nathan D’Mello also showed his prowess with the ball, picking up the three crucial wickets for the Hubli Tigers. Despite flashes of brilliance, the Mangaluru Dragons were outplayed on all fronts.Put into bat first, the Hubli Tigers had an explosive start. Despite the early loss of Luvnit Sisodia (1), they amassed 58 runs in the powerplay with opener M. Taha and Krishnan Shrijith leading the assault. They doubled down on the…

The accused has been identified as Sandeep Sahani. He is also said to be associated with a political party.Sahani had gone to the district court to seek bail in connection with a case lodged by the victim, however, the judicial magistrate Kiran Chaurasia sent him to jail after she saw the bite marks on the woman’s body.The incident happened at a village in Bagaha district on August 6 when Sahani and others had brutally assaulted the woman’s son. When she tried to save her son, the accused thrashed her as well, and also bit her private parts.Following the incident, the…

In windy conditions, the German found consistency in the key moments and showed great desire. He saved both break points he faced at 4-4, before he broke Medvedev’s serve in the next game to defeat the World No. 3 Medvedev 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in two hours and 34 minutes.Zverev has now won his past eight matches in Cincinnati, having triumphed at the hard-court tournament in his previous appearance in 2021.”It was very difficult conditions against a very difficult opponent. He gives you nothing and you have to win the match yourself and that is what I did today and I…

The in-house developed user-friendly app has readable and audio broadcast and all the information is available in two languages, i.e. English and Hindi.Key feature of the app includes real-time flood monitoring where users can check up-to-date flood situation throughout the country.The app utilises near real-time river flow data from various sources.It also provides flood forecast at nearest location where users can check the flood advisory at the station nearest to them on the home page itself.Central Water Commission (CWC) Chairman Kushvinder Vohra after launching the app said that it is quite user-friendly and is available for download on Android devices,…