India

Kanpur: Heated argument ensued between the young manager and the old staff at the branch of a bank in Jajmau area over the roof's plaster peeled off suddenly on Monday afternoon. The clerk sitting on the cabin came out and the customers even rushed towards the road. Soon they again entered the branch for depositing and withdrawal of the cash. 

The argument was not long. The senior staff was complaining of the delay in repairing the broken roof while the manager was agitated at his complaint. He told the staff that the engineer had checked the bad condition. 

New Delhi, Jul 7; GANASHAKTI - Stating that the Union Budget has revealed the intention of the government to go ahead "aggressively" towards corporatisation and privatisation of railways, the National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR) has said its affiliates are going to launch massive protests across the country against the move.

Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech on Friday proposed that railways should use Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for faster development, rolling stock manufacturing and the delivery of freight.  

Srinagar, July 7; IANS/GANASHAKTI - After the separatists called for a Kashmir-wide protest shutdown on Monday to remember Hizbul poster boy Burhan Wani on his third death anniversary, authorities on Sunday suspended mobile Internet facility in four south Kashmir districts.

Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a conglomerate of separatist parties headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has appealed people to observe a protest shutdown on Monday to remember what the JRL called 'the martyrdom of Burhan Wani'.

Shahjahanpur, Jul 7 (PTI) Twelve policemen including two sub-inspectors were injured when people allegedly attacked them when they stepped in to broker a truce between two sides disputing over installation of a transformer in Nathapur village here.

The incident took place on Saturday, Station House Officer (SHO), Puwayan, Jasveer Singh said.

Karnal (Haryana), Jul 7 (PTI) A 56-year-old doctor was shot dead by three motorcycle-borne persons in Haryana's Karnal district on Saturday, police said.

The suspects, including a former employee who was terminated from services at a hospital owned by the doctor, have been arrested, the police said.

Rajiv Gupta was attacked when he and his driver left the hospital in Chaura Bazar in a vehicle. Three masked men stopped their motorcycle in front of the SUV and fired at Gupta, an officer said.

Khandwa (MP), Jul 7 (PTI) Over 100 villagers tied 25 people with a rope and paraded them through a two-km stretch to a police station in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday for allegedly transporting cows to Maharashtra, police said.

A video of the purported incident showed several villagers carrying sticks and forcing the alleged cattle-transporters to do sit-ups holding their ears amid cries of "Gau Mata Ki Jai".

Hyderabad,July 7 (PTI) BJP Chief Amit Shah would tour Telangana every month in a bid to strenghten the party in the state ahead of the next assembly elections, party's state PresidentKLaxman said here Sunday.

As part of 'Mission 2023' of the BJP, Shah has asked the party's state unit to achieve 50 per cent vote share in next Assembly polls and ensure that the saffron party comes to power, Laxman told reporters here.

"In the core-committee meeting held Saturday, our national president Amit Shah gave clear directions to focus on Telangana and come to power.

Ahmedabad, Jul 7 (PTI) A court in Gujarat's Rajkot district has sentenced a person to 10 years of imprisonment and imposed Rs 1 lakh fine for slaughtering a calf.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge H K Dave Saturday sentenced Salim Makrani under the Gujarat Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 2017.

An FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint by one Sattar Koliya in January this year in which he accused Makrani of stealing his calf, slaughtering it and serving it at the wedding feast of the latter's daughter.

Agra, Jul 8 (PTI) Twenty-nine people were killed and 18 injured after a state-run bus skidded off the Yamuna Expressway and fell into a large drain in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, officials said.

The bus was going from Lucknow to Delhi and had at least 50 passengers on board, they said.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has formed a committee to probe the reasons behind the accident and directed it to submit a report, Additional Chief Secretary Information, Awanish Awasthi, said.

Kanpur: Enter Fazalganj industrial area phase l and it will greet you with broken road, water-logging, piles of garbage, stuffed drains, overflowing sewer, etc. Rains have further aggravated the situation from bad to worse. Industrialists maintained that these anomalies have affected business worth about Rs 40 Crore. 

Strangely enough the civic problems have been raised at the meeting of the Udyog Bandhu but officials concerned seem to have adopted a very indifferent attitude, as they often stress upon.