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A GST team earlier sent a notice to the Vaidyanath Cooperative Sugar Factory in Beed — which has been shut down due to financial problems for past several months — and after it was ignored, the GST sleuths visited the factory on Monday for an inspection.Interestingly, the developments took place two days after the Mumbai trip of Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah (Saturday) and a day before the BJP President toured Maharashtra (Tuesday) shocking the supporters of Munde, who is the party’s national secretary.Taking umbrage at the actions, and potential attachment of the factory premises, Munde said that…

While it is well known that certain brain regions play a crucial role in memory processes, so far it has not been clear whether these regions exhibit different activities when it comes to storing information in people with better or worse memory performance.To understand, the team at the University of Basel in Switzerland conducted imaging studies on memory consisting of 1,500 participants between the ages of 18 and 35.Participants were asked to look at and memorise a total of 72 images. During the process, the researchers recorded the subjects’ brain activity using MRI and then asked them to recall as…

Sanguem MLA and Minister for Archives and Archaeology, Subhash Phaldesai on Tuesday said that it is not because of locals’ objection, but as the IIT site selection committee rejected the land, they have finalised another area for the project.”Process is almost at its final stage. We are working on it. Once selection of land is done at any point of time it will be declared officially,” he said.Clarifying on earlier proposed land, Phaldesai said that land which was proposed was not sufficient as it was non -development slope. “It was a mountain. It is not because people have objected… The…

Vikram Patel has been missing since his ship left India on February 11.His wife filed the plea, requesting government intervention and a search operation.Despite her efforts to get updates on the investigation, she has received no response.Justice Subramonium Prasad has given the Union of India three weeks to respond to the matter, and has listed the case for a hearing on February 2.Patel had called his wife in August, stating that the ship was in a Russian port, but she later lost contact with him, and his whereabouts remain unknown.“Pursuant to relentless efforts on behalf of the Petitioner to get…

Spokane (USA) Sep 26 (IANS) Indian shuttlers produced a dominating 5-0 victory against Cook Islands in the mixed team event to kickstart the country’s campaign on winning note at the BWF World Junior Mixed Team Championships with a 5-0 win in Group D tie. The mixed doubles pair of Sathwik Reddy Kanapuram and Vaishnavi Khadkekar provided India a winning start on Monday when they outperformed Kaiyin Mataio and Tereapii Akavi with a resounding 21-6, 21-8 victory. Their exceptional coordination and strategic play gave opponents absolutely no chance throughout the match.Ayush Shetty and Tara Shah further extended India’s lead with dominant…

Guwahati, Sep 26 (IANS) Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have developed a new method using rice husk to separate oil from oil-water mixture, a finding that could mitigate environmental hazards like biomass burning and marine oil spills.Over the years, oil spills due to industrial discharge, or accidental mishap cause irreversible damage to the aquatic ecosystems and conventional cleaning techniques such as skimming, or in-situ burning is ineffective, costly and causes additional pollution.The team developed a silica nanoparticles-coated cotton fabric by utilising rice husk, an agricultural waste.The research, published in the international journal ‘Biomass and Bioenergy’, aims to…

Kathmandu, Sep 26 (IANS) Echoing China’s stance, Nepal on Tuesday said that it was against the “independence” of Taiwan.The Nepali side reiterated its firm commitment to the One-China principle, according to the 13-page long joint statement issued during the official visit of Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to China, recognising the Beijing government as the sole legal government representing the whole of China, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory, the Nepali side is against “Taiwan independence”.Dahal, who reached China on September 23 from New York, is currently in in the Asian giaint and held talks with the…

Islamabad, Sep 26 (IANS) Traces of wild poliovirus type 1 have been found in sewage samples collected from two different parts of Pakistan, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.A sewage sample collected from the southern port city of Karachi on September 5 and two samples collected from the Hangu district of northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province the following day tested positive for the virus, the Ministry said in a statement.A national polio campaign will start from October 2 to vaccinate over 40 million children under five years of age, the ministry said, adding that all children in Hangu and Karachi would…

In response, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday slammed Bajwa, by saying, “I know Congress thwarted your ambition to become Chief Minister.”Bajwa claimed that the Congress has 18 seats in Punjab and with the support of the 32 AAP MLAs his party could overthrow the ruling government.Chief Minister Mann responded to Bajwa’s claims with a post on X (formerly Twitter) by referring to Bajwa as a “BJP-affiliated leader”, Mann asked him to “talk to the high command”.“Partap Bajwa (BJP), you are talking about breaking the elected government of the people of Punjab. I know Congress killed your desire to…

The Court has taken cognisance of the prosecution complaint.The ED had earlier filed a prosecution complaint in this case in 2016 and supplementary complaint was also filed in 2017.The ED initiated PMLA investigation based on an FIR registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch of Odisha Police wherein, charge sheet was also filed subsequently, under various sections of IPC, Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, and Odisha Protection of Interest of Depositors (in Financial Establishments) Act.The investigation was later on taken up by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) following the order of the Odisha High…