The HC held a special hearing from 10.40 pm to just before midnight after the incumbent SSC chairperson, Siddhartha Majumdar, stepped down from his post, four months after taking the charge.

In addition to that, the government will also give Rs 2 crore assistance to cattle ponds spreading over 14 acres and maintaining more than 1,000 cattle for setting up cattle dung based bio-gas plant, it added.

Goyal's call came just a day after the Calcutta High Court directed the Jute Commissioner to “review and re-fix” the rate of raw jute. “Our discussion will be based on the lines of the court order,” said Singh.

“This rally has proved that those evicted from their houses by the ruling party after the Assembly election results are still on the road, and they are fighting. Today, we have to take an oath that we will make history in this state,” added Salim.

The former Union minister, who quit the BJP for the TMC last year, was absorbed as member of Home, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Law and Correctional Administration standing committees of the House.

According to police, the victim Aman Das, a resident of Chandkheda in Ahmedabad, who was in his sixth semester of a BTech course at PDEU, had gone missing from his university campus on Wednesday evening.

“14 Gujarat Congress senior leaders have already reached Udaipur for the  Chintan Shivir. The camp will focus on the roadmap for the 2024 General elections and various proposals ,” said Manish Doshi, spokesperson, GPCC.

Party officials said that the shivir is part of the party's preparations for the upcoming assembly elections. They added that only a small group of around 35-40 senior party office bearers are expected in the shivir.

Early morning Thursday, the Bharuch police reached Amleshwar village in the Vagra taluka to detain Rana. Simultaneously, other police teams reached different talukas and detained Congress's youth wing president and other taluka presidents from their homes.

An FIR was lodged against Piyush Kumar Pravinbhai and Kuldeepsinh Rajendrasinh. The siblings—Gaurang Patel (28) and Chandresh Patel (26)—run a honey shop in Narol.

The incident took place on Waghodia road when a stray cow suddenly jumped from the road divider and collided with Henil Patel, a diploma student of MSU's Polytechnic college, who was riding a two-wheeler.

Additional police personnel were deployed after the administration learnt that some protesters, purportedly from the majority community and irate at the injury suffered by VHP leader Satveer Saharan, had distributed sticks and engaged in inflammatory speeches.

After learning about the incident, the woman, who turned 18 recently, attempted to kill herself but survived, police said, adding the two accused were arrested on Thursday.

According to the police, Shaibin and his accomplices abducted Shaba, a small-time healer known for his one-time treatment of piles, from his house in August 2019. He was taken to Shaibin’s walled-house at Nilambur in Malappuram, where the healer was chained and shut in a room.

Residents Welfare Association president, Group Captain (retd) Kuldeep Singh, told The Indian Express that the incident took place when five to six people who stayed as tenants at  flat number 1004 in the F block of the society were partying.

The ED’s action comes at a time when Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren is under the scanner for allegedly allotting a mine on lease to himself, and an industrial plot to his wife.

According to the Met office, the coastal districts such as East Medinipur, North and South 24 Parganas and Nadia, are expected to receive more rainfall by Wednesday. Rains are also likely to lash Kolkata.

It was decided in the meeting police, district administration and youth clubs will organise blood donation camps to meet scarcity of blood, health department officials said.

After facing a rout in the 2021 Assembly election last year, the CPIM has been trying to stage a comeback in West Bengal politics through their young faces, who are mainly from its  students wing, Students Federation of India (SFI) and the DYFI.

The burglars entered the apartment by breaking the lock of the door and then decamped with gold ornaments and cash worth Rs 2 lakh in total. Police said before leaving the spot, the burglars set the apartment on fire to destroy evidence.

Anuradha Sahasrabuddhe of the childline said, “Local residents used to see the boy at the window of the apartment... they found him mentally disturbed.”

Rohan Ursal, a commission agent working in the city's wholesale market, said the season may end as early as the last week of May if rains continue to batter orchards in Karnataka.

The highest proportion of overweight or obese women is found in Puducherry (46 per cent) followed by Chandigarh (44 per cent), Delhi, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab (41 per cent each), and Kerala and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (38 per cent each), according to the report.

Police said the complainant received a call on his cell phone on April 27 from a con man who claimed to be from the call centre of a private courier company.