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Crossing the triple-century mark, chilly is being sold at Rs 350 a kg in most of the retail markets, while ginger, another cooking staple, is being sold at the same rate per kg.In some shops located at retail markets located at posh areas in the city the commodity price has touched even Rs 400 a kg.“Till now we had been wondering how to tackle the skyrocketing price of tomatoes. But now the rising prices of chilli and ginger really made us helpless. We can manage some days without tomatoes. But how is cooking possible without chilli and ginger,” Sharmishtha Rajak,…

The marinetime complex will have a special gallery depicting heritage and history of Navy and Coast Guard. The Indian Coast Guard and Indian Navy will contribute in this project.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that Indian Navy and coast guard will work for the planning, development, construction, and commissioning of a gallery on the theme “Evolution of Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard” at the National Maritime Heritage Complex.For this initiative a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Indian Coast Guard and Indian Navy with Indian Port Rail and Ropeway Corporation Ltd on Sunday July 2. The foundation stone…

In his inaugural address at the ‘National Intellectual Property Festival’, organised by the CSIR at the National Physical Laboratory here, he said: “The filing of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) including Patents and Trademark by StartUps, along with Industry linkages will encourage innovation and motivate enterprise in India.”Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after the government came up with the IPR Act in 2016, the Trademark Registration process has come down to one month, which was more than one year earlier, he said.“Soon after this, ‘StartUps Intellectual Property Rights Protection’ scheme was brought in, which envisages 80 per cent…

RJD national spokesperson Mritunjay Tiwari said: “(Prime Minister) Narendra Modi and (Home Minister) Amit Shah are extremely scared and desperate about the unity of opposition unity. The things are going beyond control of it and hence they have targeted the NCP and Sharad Pawar.” “PM Narendra Modi claimed Rs 20 lakh crore corruption cases on the leaders of opposition parties. With the inclusion of Ajit Pawar, the total corruption amount must have declined from Rs 20 lakh crore as the BJP is a washing machine. Those who make alliances with him become virtuous and those who are against him become…

In the squads released on Sunday night before the team arrives in Bangladesh on July 6, there are surprisingly no places for wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh, right-arm pacers Renuka Singh Thakur and Shikha Pandey, as well as left-arm spinners Radha Yadav and Rajeshwari Gayakwad, with no reason behind their exclusions given in the BCCI statement.There are also no places for youngsters Shreyanka Patil and Kanika Ahuja, who shone for India A in winning ACC Women’s Emerging Asia Cup in Hong Kong, where Uma was the primary wicketkeeper. Amanjot Kaur, who made her debut in T20Is earlier this year during the tri-series…

However, the rapper has recently started rehearsing again showing that he is getting back on his feet.According to TMZ, the rapper is currently back on his feet and conducting rehearsals — a sharp improvement from the video of him painfully plodding around his house.Back in June 24, the rapper had posted a video of himself on Twitter and wrote: “Small rip in the cartilage of my pelvis but I’ll be right back.”He had also given a glimpse into his recovery process, which included kinesiology tape and the assistance of two canes. The rapper also shared fears about overeating out of…

According to police, the fatalities included a man and his two young daughters, who were going on a motorcycle.Hit by the speeding dumper at Jabrakhowa in Doboka in the Hojai, they died on the spot. The accident-causing dumper was identified and the eyewitnesses claimed that the accident was caused by the truck driving in from the wrong direction and the driver being heavily intoxicated. Following the accident, the driver fled from the scene.Images from the site show the motorcycle totally buried beneath the dumper’s tyres. The Doboka police arrived at the scene and removed the victims’ bodies which were sent…

Spain, having lost their chances of winning the title after a defeat here earlier this week, faced some hard time against the young Germans but eventually emerged the winner.With any hopes of a top-three spot in the Pro League long gone, Germany took the opportunity to blood a team of up-and-coming players and the youngsters gave a good account of themselves, creating chances while also being particularly impressive in defence.Leading the way was 20-year-old keeper Joshua Onyekwue Nnaji who did exceptionally well on debut to deny the Spanish on numerous occasions. He was finally beaten in the fourth quarter.After Joaquin…

With the state witnessing dry spell due to deficit rainfall, CM KCR on Sunday held a high level meeting with officials on rainfall, availability of water in the rivers like Pranahita, water storage in reservoirs and electricity demand. He wanted the officials to take action to prevent shortage of drinking water and irrigation needs in the state.Senior officials of the respective departments explained the project wise details of water availability to CM KCR.The Chief Minister advised the officials to give priority to the supply of drinking water and to continuously monitor water reserves in the reservoirs under the Godavari and…

Officials in Imphal said that with the reopening of the NH-2 (via Nagaland), the lifeline of Manipur, the supply of essentials, food grains, transport fuels and life saving drugs would be easier in all the 16 districts of the northeastern state. After the blockade of the NH-2 since early last month, Manipur was fully dependent on the Imphal-Jiribam National Highway (NH-37) through southern Assam in procuring essentials, food grains, transport fuels, life-saving drugs and other materials from other states of the country. The United People’s Front (UPF) and the Kuki National Organisation (KNO), in a joint statement, said that they…