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NAGPUR: In a major move against pollution, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has directed the Gondegaon coal washery at Warada village in Nagpur district to close down immediately.

NEW DELHI: Women have aced Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2021 by cornering the top three slots, with history graduate from Delhi’s St Stephen’s College Shruti Sharma No. 1 in the merit list. This is the fifth time in the past 10 years that a woman has secured the top rank.

MOTIHARI: After Darbhanga, the chances of opening of second airport in North Bihar have increased with East Champaran district administration accelerating its efforts to make the Raxaul airport functional.

BENGALURU: After promising the people of Whitefield and Mahadevpura that the underpass at Kundalahalli junction would be opened in the first half of May, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has yet again reached an impasse. This is the seventh time in a row that BBMP is missing its deadline…

DALTONGANJ: Shubham Kumar, a resident of Mohammadganj in Palamu district, was nearing the last leg of his 18-month masters’ degree course in International Relations from the Taras Shevchenko Institute of International Relations in Ukraine’s Kyiv when he had to leave Ukraine on February 21 following the directive from the Indian…

MUMBAI: A lost, homeless man who was only wearing a dirty pair of shorts and serenely gazing at the expansive sea at Carter road in Bandra (west) made for an intriguing figure on Saturday evening. TOI reporter was at the site to cover the animal liberation march; but there was…

PUNE: The state government has directed collectorates of Mumbai, Pune, Thane and Raigad to speed up recovery warrant orders issued by the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) in view of the huge pendency, running into nearly Rs 678 crore in these areas.

LUCKNOW: Hours after a viral video on social media showed two boys in chains inside a madrassa in Gosainganj, police rushed to the site. However, they discovered that the parents of the two had themselves asked the madrassa teacher to chain them as they use to run away from the…

PUNE: A special UAPA court in Pune has directed the state prosecution to file affidavits of witnesses and submit a programme by May 30 to commence the trial against Yasin Bhatkal in the German bakery blast case.

JAIPUR: Sardar Meena, the 60-year-old father of the three daughters whose bodies were recovered from a well near Dudu on Saturday, was inconsolable. Banwari Meena, the 26-year-old brother of the three women, was shattered. Not only the family lost the three women, but also two kids to dowry harassment.

BHOPAL: India hockey player Khushboo Khan, who lives in a shanty in Bhopal, has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help her get a pucca house.